Social Business
Grameen Telecom Trust at AIUB Career Fair 2016
Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT) participated at the American International University Bangladesh (AIUB) Career Fair, 2016 on 3 December. The event was inaugurated by Dr. Carmen Z. Lamagna (Vice Chancellor, AIUB) who also visited the stall of GTT at the Career Fair. A total of 93 companies from all over Bangladesh participated in the event. Many aspiring job seekers visited the GTT Career Fair Stall with the hope for future vacancies in the organization. Three Hundred and Eighty (380) resume we...
New MOOC on Social Business
Yunus Social Business Center Barcelona, in collaboration with Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Tandem Social are launching a MOOC on Social Business. This free course, titled "Social Business: a Sustainable Way to Face the Most Pressing Needs of Our Time" and has a duration of 4 weeks. The course contains an interview with Muhammad Yunus and several interviews to Spanish Social Entrepreneurs. The course starts on 5 December. You can register here: https://www.futurelearn.com/course...
World's growing inequality is ‘ticking time bomb’: Yunus
Thomson Reuters Foundation, London The widening gap between rich and poor around the world is a "ticking time bomb" threatening to explode into social and economic unrest if left unchecked, Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said on Thursday. The banking and financial system has created a world of "the more money you have, the more I give you" while depriving the majority of the world's population of wealth and an adequate standard of living, Yunus told the Thomson Reuters Foundation....
Internal Social Business Design Lab of Grameen Trust Held at Gournodi, Barisal
Grameen Trust (GT) organized its 78th Internal Social Business Design Lab at Gournodi, Barisal on November 16, 2016. The lab was held at Karitash Auditorium in Gournodi, Barisal. This was the 1st design lab of GT which was held outside Dhaka. The design lab was chaired by Professor H. I. Latifee, Managing Director, Grameen Trust. Seventeen potential Nobin Udyoktas from Bhanga unit of Faridpur district and Gournodi unit of Barisal district presented...
Grameen Intel's Smart Bangle for Pregnant Mothers
Grameen Intel Social Business Ltd. has developed 'COEL' which will protect the health of pregnant mothers and their unborn child. COEL will be available in the market in March, 2017 at an affordable price.COEL is a smart wearable bangle that provides pre-recorded messages for maternal health. As an additional feature, it can also alert the presence and level of indoor air pollution (particularly carbon monoxide) during daily activities like cooking which often involves burning wood, charcoal or ...
Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Calls on Yunus
Yunus Centre Press Release (29 November, 2016)Dr. Kodela Siva Prasada Rao, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh called on Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus at Yunus Centre today. Dr. Rao visited Bangladesh especially to invite Professor Yunus to address the political leaders and the high level government officials on development issues as well as to address the upcoming National Women’s Parliament (NWP) on February 10 -12, 2017 which has as a the...
Solving Problem Using Processors Inspires Intel
Intel develops projects in different countries, but here in Bangladesh, we develop software. The local talents, who have graduated from local universities, do the job. It is one of our biggest achievements,” said Kazi Huque, in an interview with a Bangladeshi top business newspaper Bonik Barta. Out of 7.5 billion people living globally, 2.5 billion use computers and for the past 40 years Intel has been creating the brain or processor for them. Intel is inspired to solve the problems of th...
10th and 11th Employee Induction held at Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT)
Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT) organized its 11th Employee Induction on 27 November, 2016 at the Social Business Learning Centre of GTT. Twenty-Three (23) new employee participated in the program where they were acquainted to the vision, mission and goal of the organization. Presentations were given to give a better insight on the innovative concept of Social Business and the activities of GTT. All the department heads gave a presentation introducing their respective departments’ activities ...
127th In-house Social Business Executive Design Lab of GTT (421st as per Yunus Centre)
Date: 28 November, 2016 Venue: Social Business Learning Centre (SBLC), Grameen Telecom Trust. Chaired by: Ms. Jannat-E-Quanine (Former General Manager, Grameen Bank). Number of Nobin Udyokta (NU): Twenty (20) Number of business proposals approved: Twenty (20) Batch of Nobin Udyokta (NU): 165th...
Yunus Festival of Young Ideas 2016 Held at UNSW’s School of Public Health and Community Medicine
In November 2016, the YSBHH successfully arranged the “Yunus Festival of Young Ideas 2016” as a part of yearly Work Experience Placement (WEP) program, an initiative of UNSW’s School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Every year the program brings workplace opportunities to high school students to learn practical aspects of Social Business concepts and principles applied to global social, economic, health and environmental problems. This year the students presented ...
Yunus Festival of Young Ideas 2015
The Yunus Social Business Health Hub (YSBHH) developed a principle for the practice of student participation for use in developing and implementing community and stakeholder engagement processes to help with better decisions and solutions that reflect the interests and concerns of potentially affected people and entities. YSBHH principles were developed with broad international input to identify those aspects of engagement that cross national, cultural and religious boundaries. In that process, ...
Chinese Bank Chief Signs Agreement to Launch Grameen Microcredit in China
Yunus Centre Press Release (25 November, 2016) President of Leading Chinese Bank calls on Professor Yunus to sign an agreement with Grameen Trust for replicating Grameen microcredit on large scale in China Mr.WangJiong, President of ZhongYuan Bank Co., Ltd., China with his four member delegation met Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus at Yunus Centre on 24th November 2016 to sign an agreement to replicate Grameen model on a large scale in China. ZhongYuan Bank Co., Ltd is a nationwid...
126th In-house Social Business Executive Design Lab of GTT (419th as per Yunus Centre)
Date: 24 November, 2016 Venue: Social Business Learning Centre, Grameen Telecom Trust. Chaired by: Mr. Sultan Ahmed Bhuiyan (Chief Finance Officer & Board Secretary, Grameen Telecom Trust) Number of Nobin Udyokta (NU): Twenty (20) Number of business proposals approved: Twenty (20) Batch of Nobin Udyokta (NU): 164th...
Social Business on Safe Water and Three Social Business Centres launched at Design Lab; New Entrepreneurs cross 10,000
Yunus Centre Press Release (22 November, 2016)The 415th Social Business Design Lab organized by Yunus Centre took place on 22ndNovember 2016 at the Grameen Bank Auditorium with nearly 155 participants from national and international organizations attending. The Design Lab was chaired by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. Five new Nobin Udyokta business plans were presented at today's Lab. All Nobin Udyokta businesses, presented at the Design Lab are the children of Grameen Bank borrowers&...
The Yunus Center, Kasetsart University team attends the Social Business Academia Conference 2016
09 - 10 November 2016 - The Yunus Center, the Kasetsart University team composed of Associate Professor Dr. Sasivimol Meeampol, Dean, Faculty of Business Administration; Associate Professor Dr. Bordin Rassameethes, Former Dean and Former Vice-President of KU; Dr. Yodmanee Tepanon, Assistant Dean for Quality Assurance attended the Social Business Academia Conference 2016 held at the HEC Paris School of Management Campus in Jouy-en-Josas, Paris, France. The conference was organized and sponsored b...