CHANGE.ORG

After many years in the "let´s get together to change the stuff we do not like from the world" mood and certainly enjoying it (specially thanks to AIESEC!), I could not stop finding amazing http://change.org/ - what a name to have a host, ah?

The site is simple to understand and operate.

You sign in, you can post the change you want to see in world and what´s all about and once this happens, more people that identify themselves with that change, just join you ... or join the "change" and from this moment on you start networking about the issue. You can communicate through a blog, upload fotos and videos related to the topic, protrait organizations that work already towards that. You can also sign in as an organization, if you represent one.

Below you can see tha recently popular changes posted, to have an idea ...

Recently Popular Changes

Adopt children with special needs End global poverty Save Net Neutrality End Global Hunger Protect Civil Rights Improve Public Schools Universal Health Care Prevent and Stop Genocide justice Instant Runoff Voting End Coercive Government Reduce Child Obesity Eradicate Polio Everywhere Stop The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children End the war on drugs fairtax End Sexual Violence end illiteracy Food Sovereignty stop killing whales voter verified paper record of vote Research Alternative Energy Stop Child Prostitution Ban Land Mines Advance Gay Rights Increase Funding for Music in Public Schools Create freely licensed educational content Stop Global Warming Limited Government End overfishing Peace in the Middle East Eliminate the Death Penalty Cure Diabetes Separate Church and State Micro Credit for 3rd world entrepreneurs Save the Amazon

AND WELL, I also selected my topic, entrepreneurship "for a change" ... let´s see how the thread moves!

Why Entrepreneurship education ...

• from Oriana Torres
• 21 minutes ago

I was happy to see that someone else already selected entrepreneurship education as a desired change, as I am also happy to start the dicussion.

I truly believe that economies and societies can´t sustain a system anymore where people grow up and get education with the only expectation to join existent organizations. There are tones of wonderful organizations that nowadays are supporting entrepreneurship development at all levels (giving funds, giving non monetary strategic support, awarding and profiling) and I do not deny the impact they are having. But we (organizations, parents, governments) can´t conform ourselves just working with the few % of people that dare to be entrepreneurs and that is why I am convinced that a new a approach is needed, where entrepreneurship becomes a fundamental matter to learn and get inspired about since people are at schools! Why to spend 12 years in school just to learn maths, history, biology and other traditional subjects that are certainly needed but rarely put ourselves in the shoes of the global citizens that we are and encourage us to believe in our own capacities to create ventures (of all kinds) that can create social and financial capital to the world we live in?

I know at many universities around the world entrepreneurship education (and practice) is becoming a trend, but I also believe that has not reached its potential at all and, as I tried to say before, this "education" starts too late, you do not have to join university to start getting educated and inspired about how to become an entrepreneur. There are some societies that are not "entrepreneur-friendly" and where the perception towards entrepreneurship is rather related to be either irresponsible (from the risk taking point of view) or to be a selfish approach towards the owns believes (from the point of view of people that fight to make something happens even if it´s not proven or hard to achieve).It happens. And it´s sad to live ins ocities where such perceptions are in the air, or at least in the mins of some people. How do you foster entrepreneurship at kindergartens? at primary and secondary schools? in your own family?

There is for sure lots to reserach ...