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Nairobi on fire

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Building the first Sandbox Hub in Africa is no mean feat. You need all the help you can get. So a few days ago I casually met up with Acumen Fund’s head of Global Fellows Blair Miller, and the Fund’s East Africa Fellowship coordinator Suraj Sudhakar, which quickly turned into an organic  brainstorming session with [...]

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Sandbox in Paris

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

 Friday saw the very first steps of Sandbox developing in France. Over drinks in a bar in Paris’s 2nd arrondissement, Sandboxers Bjoern Lasse Hermann, Aaron O’Hearn and I got together with some inspiring people, equally interesting and interested in Sandbox. Attendees there are making huge impacts to ecosystems in France and Europe, some are great social entrepreneurs, [...]

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Sandbox @ Skoll Emerge 2010

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Sandboxers from all over Europe convened in Oxford last weekend for the Skoll Emerge Conference. Hosted at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School (SBS), the event brought together some of the world’s leading industry experts, academics and social entrepreneurs to discuss the topic of social entrepreneurship. Delegates were in the extremely enviable position, having the chance [...]

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Exclusive Sandbox Dinner on Saturday with Singularity University and Sparkseed

Friday, August 20th, 2010

This Saturday, we’ll be hosting an exclusive Sandbox dinner that we’ll be presenting together with our friends at the Singularity University (where several Sandboxers are “students”) and Sparkseed (run by Sandboxer Mike del Ponte and currently organizing the Dangerously Ambitious conference for social innovators). We have over 100 top leaders and innovators attending and are [...]

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