Monthly archive for February 2010
Meet a Sandbox Member: Kyra Choucroun
“Kyra Choucroun is one of the editors of The Gopher Illustrated and a political fiend. Her interests range from International Political Economy to Development and Conflict resolution. Fresh out of a Masters from the London School of Economics, Kyra is hard at work in London.” That’s how Michu Benaim, co-founder and co-editor of The Gopher Illustrated [...]
Weekly inspiration #24: The ABC of inspirational links
What kind of online content do people enjoy sharing most? Researchers who have analyzed the New York Times’ list of most e-mailed articles over the course of six months have found that it’s the news that inspires awe that is shared the most. We can certainly relate to that - here at Sandbox, we love [...]
Sandboxer featured on Forbes’ front page
Source: Forbes
Sandboxer Fraser Doherty is featured on the front page of Forbes today, linking to an article about “How to make $1 million before you graduate - Valuable lessons from preternatural wealth builders“. Fraser founded Superjam at age 14 and left school two years later to develop it full time. The company hit $1.2 revenue last year [...]
London goes Wired
Following an old tradition, we recently organized another dinner at Obika, conjointly with our London ambassador Paolo Rigutto. We were excited about welcoming travelling Sandboxers from allover the world, from Delhi to NYC. Gustav Borgefolk, who recently passed the selection process, joined us from Stockholm with great energy, and we’re convinced that he’ll make the [...]
Meet a Sandbox member: Malin Berdette
Malin Berdette, 28, describes herself as a “global dreamer, traveling the world turning my visions into reality”. She is originally from Sweden but currently traveling the world for 610 days for her project “Win Win World Tour“. Her goal is to raise enough money to spend $100 000 per month to projects empowering millions of [...]
Weekly inspiration #23: Internet Lovin’
Sunday being Valentines and the Chinese New Year, I tried to find a theme somehow connecting the two – ultimately settling on our love affair with the internet. Google’s first TV advertisement in the US captures the sentiment quite well. The internet enables and initiates almost everything, from information sharing to something potentially much more.
Ironically, [...]
Meet a Sandbox Member: Patrick Boström
Patrick Boström is 24 years old and was born and raised in Sweden. He is currently studying in Hong Kong. Besides beeing responsible for coordinating a volunteer project with Light for Children he and his team just won the Hong Kong Social Entrepreneurship Challenge competition.
Patrick on facebook and twitter.
Tell us the story of your latest project / [...]
Weekly inspiration #22: Attracting the best and the brightest
This year, I had the privilege to follow World Economic Forum Annual Meeting from the inside. The week I spent in the Swiss mountains was totally inspiring, both for the people I met as for the discussions going on.
A session that especially passioned me was a dinner with Mexican President Felipe Calderón among other prominent [...]
Taking Sandbox Themes on the Road
Since publishing the Sandbox Six Themes report last month, we received a lot of great feedback and interest from our members, our advisory board, larger organizations, universities, and many others. To keep the momentum going, we were invited to present these themes at various events and conferences around the world.
Just in the last two weeks [...]
Meet a Sandbox Ambassador: Katharina Beck and Nico Köllner
Katharina and Nico are two of our Sandbox Ambassadors. Together they are taking care of the growing Sandbox community in Cologne and Dusseldorf by organizing regular events. Besides that Katharina is Head of Communications and Project Developer at the Institute for Social Banking, Project Manager at oikos International and she’s writing her own blog on [...]
