Join HUB Johannesburg? Click here to enquire! January 2011 Follow us Read us Welcome to Johannesburg Hubdate-lite, January 2011. We appreciate your continued support and interest in HUB Johannesburg. There is growing interest in HUB Johannesburg and we are pleased to announce that Hub membership is steadily climbing! Since opening HUB Johannesburg, three months ago, we’ve had the pleasure of hosting many of you at no fewer than 7 HUB Co-Creation Workshops and 7 Entrepreneurship focused events, during Global Entrepreneurship Week in November 2010. In addition to this we also host a weekly informal networking session called Lunch at the Hub, hosted every Friday at 1pm. Member Profile: Samantha Braithwaite: Affectionately known as Sam, Samantha was brought up in Durban and studied at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. With an undergraduate in Social Sciences, she majored in Economics, before furthering her studies in Enterprise Management. After working in Johannesburg she travelled to Dubai where she joined a UK-based company specializing in published business information for the Middle East region. In 2009, her role was made redundant. Sam decided to use this opportunity for purposeful travel that could expose her to various different social development models. Her travels took her to India where she visited the SEWA (Self-Employed Women’s Association). The primary focus of her travels however centered around work in Nepal and Bangladesh. Sam travelled Nepal for 6 months, working with various projects across the small country. In 2010, Sam worked for the Yunus Centre in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Yunus Centre works to promote the idea and practice of the social business model under the close guidance of its founder and microfinance pioneer, 2006 Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. In the same year Sam completed training in the Grameen Bank micro-lending model. Determined by nature and driven by new ideas, Sam does not shy away from a challenge. She lives each day to see systemic and tangible change happen in her country - and she believes strongly in the vital role business and innovation can play in creating this change. Sam currently works for Tshikululu Social Investments. Samantha Braithwaite & 2006 Nobel Laureate Prof. Mohammad Yunus
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Join HUB Johannesburg? Click here to enquire!
January 2011 Follow us Read us
Welcome to Johannesburg Hubdate-lite, January 2011. We appreciate your continued support and interest in HUB Johannesburg. There is growing interest in HUB Johannesburg and we are pleased to announce that Hub membership is steadily climbing! Since opening HUB Johannesburg, three months ago, we’ve had the pleasure of hosting many of you at no fewer than 7 HUB Co-Creation Workshops and 7 Entrepreneurship focused events, during Global Entrepreneurship Week in November 2010. In addition to this we also host a weekly informal networking session called Lunch at the Hub, hosted every Friday at 1pm.
Member Profile: Samantha Braithwaite: Affectionately known as Sam, Samantha was brought up in Durban and studied at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. With an undergraduate in Social Sciences, she majored in Economics, before furthering her studies in Enterprise Management. After working in Johannesburg she travelled to Dubai where she joined a UK-based company specializing in published business information for the Middle East region. In 2009, her role was made redundant. Sam decided to use this opportunity for purposeful travel that could expose her to various different social development models. Her travels took her to India where she visited the SEWA (Self-Employed Women’s Association). The primary focus of her travels however centered around work in Nepal and Bangladesh. Sam travelled Nepal for 6 months, working with various projects across the small country. In 2010, Sam worked for the Yunus Centre in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Yunus Centre works to promote the idea and practice of the social business model under the close guidance of its founder and microfinance pioneer, 2006 Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. In the same year Sam completed training in the Grameen Bank micro-lending model. Determined by nature and driven by new ideas, Sam does not shy away from a challenge. She lives each day to see systemic and tangible change happen in her country - and she believes strongly in the vital role business and innovation can play in creating this change. Sam currently works for Tshikululu Social Investments.
Samantha Braithwaite & 2006 Nobel Laureate Prof. Mohammad Yunus
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Hubbing in Johannesburg… DATE: Thurs, 27th January 2011 EVENT: Jo’burg Citizen Journalists in Dialogue TIME: 18h00 for 18h30 COST: R50 [Non Members]
Event Information: With the evolution of social media, there is an increasing shift in who the opinion shapers in our society are and who they will be. The combination of social media (Facebook, Twitter and personal blogs) with an optimistic unrelated group of people, who are passionate observers and commentators of Johannesburg inner-city’s regeneration are providing a perspective that goes beyond institutional frameworks and agendas. Hub Johannesburg invites Jo’burg’s culture bloggers and citizen journalists to an evening dialogue and discovery around the “real” trends emerging in the city. What do we see when we walk the streets of the city? What is there to do? What’s happening? What happens when we bring together the voices of Joburg? [Citizen Journalists are the people formerly known as the audience. Citizen Journalism (also known as "public", "participatory", "democratic", “guerrilla” or “street journalism”) is the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information"]
*a carpool departs from the Market Theatre at 6pm, let us know if you would like to meet there.
DATE: Thurs, 03rd February, 2011 EVENT: New Ideas for Africa: Jozi Ideas Fair TIME: 18h00 for 18h30 COST: R50 [Non Members] Event Information: Based on the success of last years’ NIFA: Ideas Fair, we are pleased to announce that the HUB Johannesburg will be hosting NIFA: Jozi Ideas Fairs on the first Thursday of every month during 2011. If you have an idea or project that could create positive change and would like to share it in a safe environment for constructive criticism, connections to key contacts, professional support for different parts of the project and possible partnerships; we invite you to this session. You are also invited to come and be inspired – who knows what could emerge!
*a carpool departs from the Market Theatre at 6pm, let us know if you would like to meet there
PROPOSED DATE: Fri, 18th February, 2011 EVENT: TBC Event Information: Look out for a special Collaborative Event between HUB Johannesburg and The Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship South Africa
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Member Events this Month… MEMBER: Dorah Lebelo – GenderCC Southern Africa DATE: Wednesday, 2nd February 2011 EVENT: Gender Review of National Climate Change Response [NCCR] Green Paper 2010 TIME: COST: Event Information: Although climate change impacts will affect all countries, its impacts will be differently distributed among different regions, generations, age and income groups, occupations and genders. The poor, the majority of whom are women, will be disproportionately affected. GenderCC Southern Africa – women for climate justice would like to invite you to a workshop on the Gender Review of the National Climate Change Response [NCCR] Green Paper 2010. The workshop will seek to: • Bring various civil society stakeholders together and present to them GenderCCSA’s draft Gender Review of the NCCR Green Paper 2010 • To gather inputs and comments from various civil society stakeholders on GenderCCSA’s draft Gender Review of the NCCR Green Paper
2010 • To work on various joint strategies of ensuring the voices of grassroots women are included and that the South African climate change
