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Welcoming all participantsto THE SYNC First workshop

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The SYNC : Define the meaning of Social Innovation… TOGETHER.สถานที่ : ASA Center ชั้น 5 สยามดิสคัพเวอรี่เซ็นเตอรณ วันเสารที่ 2 เมษายน 2554 เวลา 13:00 น. - 16:00 น

วงสนทนา เพื่อแลกเปลี่ยนความคิด ประสบการณ ความฝน ที่มีตอสถานที่ทำงาน โดยเฉพาะ co-working space (สถานที่ทำงานรวมกัน) หรือ co-location office space (สถานที่ทำงานรวมกันแบบออฟฟศ) เพื่อที่จะนำความใฝฝนเหลานั้นไปสูความเปนจริง สำหรับสังคมของนักพัฒนานวัตกรรมเพื่อสังคม

Sinee Chakthranont

Sinee Chakthranont directs Ashoka programs in Thailand.  Ashoka is the global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs.

สินี จักรธรานนท์ เป็นผู้อํานวยการมูลนิธิอโชก้า (ประเทศไทย) อโชก้าเป็นสมาคมระดับโลกของผู้ประกอบประการสังคมแนวหน้าทั่วโลก

My work link: www.ashoka.org, www.thailand.ashoka.orgMy personal link: http://community.momypedia.com/community/blog/my_blog.aspx?bgrid=51162

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Chawanad Luansang, Openspace Community Architects

Chawanad Luansang has established a model for community-led planning and revitalization that goes beyond housing and land rights to address both structural and social needs. Chawanad is nurturing a new civic culture that empowers local residents with the resource management skills and political experience to address their own short- and long-term community development.

Chawanad and his Openspace collective of community architects have developed a holistic model for long-term rural and urban community revitalization that is driven by the villagers rather than government institutions. Chawanad believes that to solve the problems of poor communities in the long-term, villagers must be empowered to participate in their community revitalization strategies and to take the lead in their formulation. An architect by training, Chawanad begins by mobilizing communities to collectively address housing needs, but leverages this approach to encourage greater community activism.

Recognizing that the Thai government’s top-down approaches to community development are frequently rejected by the communities they are designed to serve, Chawanad’s Openspace has demonstrated that the best solutions are those generated at the grassroots

level and are supported—not overwritten—by outside technical capacity. This process leaves communities better prepared to manage future development issues such as resource shortages, natural disasters, and other external shocks that may arise in the long-term.

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Nuttinee Karnchanaporn, PhDTrained as an interior architect and is working in various fields: teaching, research, interior design, and writing on design related issues. Nuttinee is currently a lecturer at School of Architecture and Design, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand. Nuttinee obtained her PhD in History and Theory of Architecture from Architectural Association, UK and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. 

Current WorkplaceSchool of Architecture and DesignKing Mongkut's University of Technology ThonburiandG4 Architectsandmore...

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Dr. Veerawong Pipithsuksunt

Veerawong Pipithsuksunt is a Coach, Trainer, Productivity Consultant and Guest Speaker in Entrepreneurship and Leadership. Dr. Veerawong helps both manufacturing and service companies to enhance their productivities by using Lean and Total Quality Management. And, as the guest speaker he gave the speech in entrepreneurship classes with the Department of Industrial Promotion. Also, he is a translator in self-improvement books such as emotion management, decision-making and financial freedom. Right now, his goal is to become an accredited coach with International Coach Federation to support mainly in Social Entrepreneur. 

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Thawatchai Saengthamchai

Media communication agency for social issue

facebook.com/icareclub

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Prapapan Banlusilp

Senior CoordinatorThai Social Enterprise Office (TSEO)

Joining the Thai Social Enterprise Office since its inception, she has completely changed her career path from Hotel/Resort management as a Project Manager. With her passion and heart for social enterprise, she has dedicated herself to facilitating the growth of social enterprises and intermediaries in Thailand as well as forging international partnerships within the global social enterprise sector.

website: www.tseo.or.th

Facebook: tseopress

Twitter: @tseopress

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Natchaya FutragoonCoordinator, Thailand Social Enterprise Office (TSEO)Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Information studies

Website www.tseo.or.thFacebook www.facebook.com/tseopressTwitter @tseopress

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Sunit Shrestha

Director and Partner, ChangeFusion Institute

He is founder of ChangeFusion. He has raised and managed projects worth over 3 million USD focusing on social innovation development such as Internet-based social technologies as well as sustainable agriculture. ChangeFusion, formerly known as Thai RuralNet, is a World Bank Development Marketplace’s winner. He started off his career with Access Capital, a venture capital firm in Bangkok. He was also a Bloomberg Fellow in Finance. He became an Ashoka Fellow in 2009.

His personal blog is at Dream Infection.

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Aki Yamato

Aki Yamato is a Japanese who has lived in Thailand for more than 3 years. Now working as co-founder of Marimo5 to support Thai Farmers to be connected with customers directly as creating new products, selling vegetables and organizing event.

Visit Marimo5 at: http://www.marimo5.com/

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Komgrit TrakoontiwakornAutomotive Design and Industrial Design InstructorDepartment of Industrial DesignFaculty of ArchitectureKing Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang

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นายธนกร เจียรกมลชื่น ชื่อเล่น โจ๊ก อายุ 26 ปี จบการศึกษาระดับปริญญาตรีจากคณะเศรษฐศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์ ลักษณะนิสัยเป็นคนง่ายๆ สบายๆ ชอบช่วยเหลือผู้อื่นและรักธรรมชาติ (ชอบดูดาวบนฟ้าเป็นพิเศษ) ปัจจุบันทํางานในตําแหน่งเจ้าหน้าที่ประสานงานของเครือข่ายตลาดสีเขียว และผู้ช่วยผู้จัดการงานแฟร์ของตลาดสีเขียว ทําหน้าที่เชื่อมโยงกลุ่มผู้ประกอบการร้านจัดจําหน่ายสินค้ากรีนเพื่อสร้างเป็นเครือข่าย และเป็นหนึ่งใน organizer หลักของงานแฟร์ใหญ่ของเครือข่ายฯ ชื่อ GreenFair (จัดขึ้นช่วงปลายป)ี โดยตัวผมชื่นชอบในการทํางานกับองค์กรนี้เพราะศรัทธาในแนวทางการทํางานของกลุ่มที่สร้างการเชื่อมโยงระหว่างผู้ผลิตและผู้บริโภคให้เกิดความผูกพันธ์ อันจะนําไปสู่การสร้างตลาดที่เป็นธรรมและเกื้อกูลต่อธรรมชาติ

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Thanaphol Tunprasert (Panter)

ธนพล ตันประเสริฐ (แพนเธอร์) Social Script &  Copy Writer

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Thantita Srisuriya (Ploy)

ธัญญ์ฐิตา สีห์สุริยา (พลอย) Social Account Executive

Bachelor of Communication Arts, Advertising, Rangsit University, Pathumtani, Thailand

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Tawin Piriyasanguanpong (Boyd)

เทวินทร์ พิริยะสงวนพงศ์ (บอยดฺ์) Social Script Writer

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Tanatep Pornkulvilie, Partner, Finance and Accounting

Tanatep was reading Economics from the Thai Chamber of Commerce University. He is responsible for the organization's financial management and accounting issue.

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Thanapon SreshthaputraCoordinator, ChangeFusion Institute

From the corporate world, Thanapon now contributes his business and management skills to bridge the gap between the concept of sustainable development and the business world.

His main responsibility is to provide Sustainability and CSR implementation consultancy to private companies, as well as closely work with international organizations, namely, Clinton Climate Initiative and FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) to promote sustainability in Thailand. Furthermore, he leads a few research projects, such as one of the FAO Project; “The challenges in replicating ‘best practice’, community-based rural bio-energy projects in Thailand.”

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Walaiphorn WajavuthCoordinator, ChangeFusion Institute

Walaiphorn Wajavuth is a project coordinator at ChangeFusion Institute, which is a nonprofit organization that provides social innovation design, investment and incubation services with a specific focus on catalyzing high-impact, scalable and sustainable social innovations as well as social enterprises. At ChangeFusion, her core responsibility is to develop business plans, financial statements and projections for Social Enterprises. She works closely with not only Social Enterprise project, but also with Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects. She is passionate in Creative Capitalism and Design Thinking, as the solution for sustainable development.

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Preekamol Chantaranijakorn (Gift)Associate, ChangeFusion Institute

Graduating last year with a Bachelors of Economic from Thammasat University with a major in Development Economics, Preekamol has passionately taken many community and rurally oriented classes and activities. With her strong beliefs in people and community’s power of social development, Preekamol would like to be one little part of movement towards greater social equality. Furthermore, Preekamol believes that macro-economic policy is crucial to the empowerment of grassroots movements, and is now a member of ChangeFusion’s Think Tank team, which actively engages in researching and developing policy innovations. Her ambition is to become a social entrepreneur and aims to solve the problems of urban poor, homeless, slums and trafficked persons.

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Amarit CharoenphanAssociate, ChangeFusion Institute

Although graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Thammasat University, Amarit is proud to be newest member on the Social Enterprise and Impact Finance team. He works closely to support social entrepreneurs particularly through the UnLtd Thailand’s incubation and capacity development program as well as social venture financing. He counts Richard Branson as his most influential entrepreneurial idol and shares Branson’s spirit for adventure through passions such as scuba diving, airship traveling and sub-orbital space tourism. An aspiring social entrepreneur and social investor, he is equally passionate in realizing his vision of the successful and widespread commercialization of social innovations to create genuine and sustainable progress in Thai society. He plans to incubate his first social venture at ChangeFusion in the near future.

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