Equality
Dignity’s Miranda Hitchings and Jacinta Gulasekharam on periods at work and equality (listen)
Miranda Hitchings and Jacinta Gulasekharam, who founded Dignity with the idea to create affordable and accessible sanitary items for all women and menstruating people in New Zealand, chat about the need for sanitary items in workplaces, the importance of providing sanitary items to schools, equality, and more.
Bloody awesome
Wā Collective’s Olie Body on social enterprise, ending period poverty and talking about menstruation (listen)
Wā Collective founder Olie Body chats with Idealog about her social enterprise, what we can do to end period poverty, why we need to have open and frank discussions about periods and menstruation if we’re to end the discrimination and promote a more equal society, and more.
Deep wisdom
Social enterprises – the new frontier?
David Downs is in Boston, Massachusetts - and takes some time to share some of the wisdom he's learned from attending a two-day conference on Social Enterprises at Harvard.
Meeting your match
Collaborate helps you swipe right on your favourite charity or social cause
How do you break the stereotype of the younger generation that’s been labelled lazy, self-entitled and reckless with money (hello, $15 smashed avocado on toast) and help them do some social good? You create an app akin to the world’s most popular dating platform, Tinder, that connects volunteers with charities and social causes. Collaborate co-founder Holly Norton explains her app, how it’s smashing Millennial stereotypes and how people actually do want to do volunteer work, it’s just the process that’s hard.
Get out
My favourite places: Erik Zydervelt, Mevo
Mevo founding director and CEO Erik Zydervelt shares some of his favourite places in Wellington.
Social good
Four principles every business can learn from social enterprises
Judit Maireder shares four things that make a social enterprise successful.
Design Thinking
Community and creativity are key for new social enterprise Critical
Andy Crowe and Rui Peng love asking questions, answering problems and the Auckland suburb of Mt Roskill – and they have turned all these passions into a social enterprise tackling inequality. It does this by co-creating inventive products, spaces and experiences using digital technologies while currently operating out of a low-decile school.
Hacking to save the world
Idealog goes inside Datacom's social enterprise hackathon
Tents in offices. Pizza boxes piled as high as a person. Enough energy drinks to drown an elephant. And enough bright people working on making the world a better place through technology to lift the spirits of even the most hard-hearted. Sounds like the latest edition of Datacomp.
Idealog's Guide to Wellington
Idealog's Guide to Wellington: Stats in the city
Behold! A panoply of impressive, potentially myth-shattering information about our rich, smart, highly caffeinated, well-fed, fit, tech-savvy, environmentally-conscious, entertained, happy capital.
