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  Seungchul commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  After SoCap09: The Five Issues Holding Social Entrepreneurship Back

  Thank you so much for this and other great articles on SoCap09! I couldn't be there so these are very helpful to get the feeling of what the Conference was about.

  
  

  I'm happy that the issue of metrics rightly got much attention in this year's SoCap as I also believe it is the single biggest bottleneck for the creation of a more efficient social capital market mechanism. I am impressed by what the GIIRS consortium is doing, but believe the biggest remaining challenge is how to make comparable the impacts of money put into different enterprises (and ultimately across different issue areas). To do it, we need to create some metrics system that 1) captures not only objective data but subjective information of stakeholders, and 2) takes a balanced perspective on both short- and long-term impacts, (which I think is related to your 4th point.)

  
  

  My belief is that your 2nd point of risk capital could be drastically improved once we resolve the metrics issue, and the 3rd one is also very much related to the 2nd. As for the last issue, I don't really think it is a critical bottleneck before we have a shared sense of direction where we should go and what should happen to get there, because a power without a sense of purpose is useless.

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  Seungchul commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  Rwanda and the Infrastructure of the Future

  Thanks for introducing these articles on Rwanda, which are particularly helpful for me as I'm going to take an unpaid summer position with a Rwandan bank next month.