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Opening Space Empowers Staff to Talk about How We Work
At our annual management retreat, Open Space gave our managers the opportunity to raise concerns and make suggestions about how DDD can improve how we do business and better achieve our social mission. The chance to speak up to propose topics, to talk with peers about the issues that concern them most, and to report back to the full group was enormously empowering, and inspired all of us to action.
Experiential Learning in Hong Kong
While I was still in Thailand for the Global Social Venture Symposium, I told Mai Siriphongpanh, our COO in DDD, about my experience as a guest speaker at the Symposium. She congratulated me on my achievement, as she knew that I was really not comfortable with public speaking. Then she told me that she had a new challenge for me: To represent Laos and DDD at the GIFT Institute’s Young Leadership Program in Hong Kong.
Coming Back To Cambodia
While growing up in France, my elementary school friends and I always dreamed of going back to Cambodia one day to help my parents’ motherland. When I first learned about DDD four years ago from a BBC article, I was awed by the social impact of the organization. I immediately contacted the CEO Jeremy Hockenstein to ask how I, of Cambodia origins, could best utilize my skills to help Cambodia.
DDD welcomes Dr. Koji Osawa to our Board of Directors!
DDD is thrilled to announce the addition of Koji Osawa to our board of directors. A Co-founder and Managing Principal of Global Catalyst Partners, Dr. Osawa has long been involved with DDD. In 2001, Dr. Osawa championed a seed investment to start Digital Divide Data from the Global Catalyst Foundation (The Global Catalyst Foundation is a private [...]
Board Meeting Reflections
“This is the best board meeting I’ve ever been too,” proclaimed one of our hardest-to-impress board members. That’s what we aim for!
Celebrating the Cambodian Diaspora Through Remembering …
Socheata was born in a Thai refugee camp to Cambodian parents who fled the Khmer Rouge. She was 22 when her parents revealed to her that her older sisters were in fact her first cousins (whose parents perished under Pol Pot). Her older brother was actually her half brother – a child who survived her mother’s murdered first husband.
Please Meet Odai, Thipkesone, Thongsouk and Addy
Odai, Thipkesone, Thongsouk, and Addy work as data-entry operators in our office in Vientiane, Laos. I asked them about their lives before and after they joined DDD.
Volunteers – Are They Really Of Any Use At All?
Every year, a myriad of expats come to Southeast Asia to volunteer for NGOs or social enterprises. They settle down in a country far from home, where they come to accept geckos as housemates, they get used to sore stomachs, and they discover the real value of Skype. They bring valuable skills and knowledge with them. But they don’t stay.
Hiring HR Manager and Senior HR Officer
DDD is now seeking qualified candidates to fill two HR positions in our Battambang office.
Is Social Entrepreneurship The Next Big Thing?
A key contribution to the social entrepreneurship movement is David Bornstein’s How to Change the World. Now, Bornstein has founded and launched a new website, www.dowser.org, which aims to showcase more stories of change happening around the world right now.
