BBC Global Business broadcast this week another in a series of interviews done from the Skoll World Forum in March.  Following earlier interviews with Jeff Skoll and on social entrepreneurs in the Middle East, the new broadcast focuses on water and sanitation issues.  Peter Day of the BBC talks with four social entrepreneurs approaching the [...]

The BBC World Service attended the Skoll World Forum in March and continues to roll out content from the event.  They ran The Interview with Jeff Skoll last month.  This week, they are running a 25-minute segment on social entrepreneurship in the Middle East.  Peter Day interviews three social entrepreneurs who were part of the [...]

We’re continuing to see articles appearing in the media and online on the Skoll World Forum.  A few places to check out:
Fast Company’s Jeff Chu was at the event and wrote a series of articles, which you can see here.
Julia Moulden of Huffington Post was also there, and continued her series on social entrepreneurs.  Check [...]

Nathan Wolfe, who runs the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative and is a recent Skoll grantee, gave a talk at TED recently which is now up online (12 minutes).  It gives a great overview of Nathan’s work to understand how viruses make the jump from animal to human so we can stop them before they become [...]

I got wrapped up in the final day of the Forum and then was traveling home, so didn’t get a chance to post.  The Forum closed on a high note on Friday, with plenary keynotes from Pamela Hartigan, the new director of the Skoll Centre at Oxford, as well as the Dean of the Said [...]

The Awards Ceremony last night was a lot of fun.  It was kicked off by KT Tunstall, a great singer from Scotland who played solo guitar.  Sally Osberg, the Skoll Foundation’s CEO, talked about social entrepreneurs using a “quorum sensing” metaphor.  This is a concept taken from nature that describes how, for example, ant colonies, [...]

We’re here in Oxford, preparing for the Skoll World Forum that kicks off Wednesday.  We convened Tuesday with the Skoll social entrepreneurs from 2005-2008, joined by their nine new colleagues who will receive their awards this year at the Forum.  Each of the new Skoll social entrepreneurs gave a short talk to the whole group [...]

We announced today the new 2009 winners of Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship.  The recipients are BioRegional Development Group, EcoPeace – Friends of the Earth Middle East, Fundacion Gaia Amazonas, INJAZ Al-Arab, International Center for Transitional Justice, VisionSpring, and WaterPartners International.   They’ll receive their awards at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford on March [...]

The Huffington Post has continued the series on social entrepreneurs we blogged on earlier with an “open letter” to Jeff Skoll.  It details Jeff’s creation and support of the Skoll Foundation, the Skoll World Forum, and Social Edge and his work with Participant Media. It closes with a question to Jeff about the likely [...]

The Skoll World Forum kicks off in Oxford on March 25.  The Foundation co-producers this each year with the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School at  Oxford.  It’s shaping up to be a great event.  The agenda has now gone live. You can see that here.  The theme this year is [...]