“It starts with an idea to make the world a better place,” the Dell Social Innovation webpage reads. Dell has teamed up with the University of Texas to create the third Social Innovation Competition, in which university students from around the world are invited to submit their groundbreaking ideas on how to address significant social issues. Students can work in teams or as individuals, but they are required to still be enrolled in college.College is a hotbed of idealism and creative energy where ideas of how to change the world fly around campus coffee shops and dormitories. Harnessing – and funding – that force has resulted in advanced composting systems, technology to repurpose electronic waste into energy, and a community center and school for girls in the Kibera slum in Kenya. And those were just the Social Innovation Competition finalists for 2010.
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Author: Lauren VanMullem
