Putting social enterprise on the map
Ayllu, a Sao Paulo, Brail based not for profit organisation, has created an interactive map that plots social enterprises across the globe, promoting their products and services to sociall conscious comsumers.
The map, known as iuMap, was developed in partnership NextBillion, a website and blog that connects social entrepreneurs, NGO's and policay makers to explore development and enterprise. iuMap promotes social enterprises that work to develop BOP (which refers to 'Base of Pyramid' - the 2.5 billion people in the world who live on less than £1.60 per day) markets in the developing world.
Cosumers can search for social enterprises by country and view profiles of each social enterprise including details of their aims, products and services. Each enterprise is colour-coded by area of work which includes fairtrade crafts, education and sanitation.
British social enterprises appearing on iuMap include Eco Maximus, a company with headquarters in Brighton that operates out of Sri Lanka and works to combat the problem of elephants being killed due to their interference with agriculture by using them as a sustainable economic resource via the production of handmade paper from elephant dung, and Solar Aid, a London based enterprise that aims to create solutions to the related issues of global poverty and climate change by providing local communities in sub-Saharan Africa with training to build small scale solar devices.
Please follow the link to view the interactive iuMap.