Social Good Brasil announces actions for 2015

Project encourages use of technology in social entrepreneurship projects

 
Social Good Brasil, a project that seeks to encourage the use of technology in social entrepreneurship projects, plans a series of actions for 2015. The main new feature is the Social Good Agent, which will allow any individual, with access to only one computer, to connected to the internet, find the best way to support social projects – whether mobilizing your network to act directly on a problem or promoting a cause. Actions that are already part of the project's calendar, such as the Social Good Brazil Seminar, the documentary “Conectados Transformamos” and the LAB, in 2015, will receive renewed editions.
 
The Social Good Brazil Seminar, considered the main event on the use of technology for social innovation in the country, is part of the Social Good Summit NYC agenda in Brazil, an international event that takes place annually during the United Nations week in New York.
 
Approved by the Rouanet Law, the documentary “Conectados Transformamos”, which filled the cinema of the Centro Integrado de Cultura in its premiere, in Florianópolis, in 2014, will also win another edition. There will be new testimonials from creators of inspiring projects that use technology to do good, volunteers, supporters and, above all, those benefited by the initiatives.
 
The third edition of the LAB, scheduled for 2015, will once again support innovative social entrepreneurship projects that believe in the power of technologies and new media as a tool for social transformation.
 
In recent years, the LAB has been guaranteeing support for projects that stand out nationally. In early December, for example, Social Good Brasil Lab 2014 participant Lucas Lucchesi was among the four winners of the 2014 Young Inspirers Award, which awards university students or recent graduates with the potential to assume strategic positions in the development of Brazil. Lucchesi, 23, founded Camaru, a social enterprise that aims to provide basic sanitation to needy communities and prevent the proliferation of linked diseases and lack of toilets through an innovative dry toilet solution. The project yielded the popular vote ranking, with 21,896 votes (39% of the total).