Infrastructure Development for Social Entrepreneurship Center

The mission of the Social Entrepreneur Center is to promote the use of technology for social issues by creating sustainable enterprises. This will be achieved by

(i) creating an undergraduate major (and minors linked to existing majors) in social entrepreneurship well integrated with information and technology education,

(ii) fostering an internship program where students can add value to a company, an NGO (non-governmental organization), or a non-profit organization within US or in a foreign country by leveraging technology,

(iii) organizing an annual tech fair where socially-oriented high-tech companies and organizations connect with students, and

(iv) organizing seminars on social entrepreneurship.

Additional funding will be sought from other agencies to

(v) create a community of researchers on social entrepreneurship to create an on-going intellectual foundation for emerging societal needs that can potentially be met through technological advances,

(vi) undertake sustainable technology training programs for socially motivated community workers and high school children who will act like change agents in the society at large,

(vii) enhance the curriculum of new courses on social entrepreneurship, and

(viii) broaden the participation in computing by attracting diversity students and students majoring in many different areas.