Technology Social Venture and Community Empowerment

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10.2991/icibet.2013.170How to use a DOI?

Abstract

This article elaborates the case of Elevyn.com, a technology social venture linking the deprived rural artisans of Sabah directly with the socially-conscious consumers through online shopping portal by eliminating the middlemen in between for the sole intent of revitalizing an area of disinvestment and poverty. In the pro-cess, the founders of Elevyn.com also provided the visionary, strategic and operational leadership often associated with the actions and responsibilities of a social entrepreneur. The limited research to date has investigated technology social venture and community empowerment as separate concepts. In this study, the sustained and intensive involvement and continuous leadership provided by elevyn.com focused on the community em-powerment of the poor rural artisans of Sabah villages has been analyzed.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ismail K.
AU  - Mir Hossain Sohel
AU  - WOmar WZ
PY  - 2013/03
DA  - 2013/03
TI  - Technology Social Venture and Community Empowerment
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information, Business and Education Technology (ICIBET 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 784
EP  - 787
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icibet.2013.170
DO  - 10.2991/icibet.2013.170
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