Bertha Foundation dreams of a more just world and supports forms of activism that aim to bring about change. They champion those using media, law and enterprise as tools to achieve their vision. [wooslider slider_type=”attachments”] 1 Bertha’s four pillars are media, law, activism and enterprise Together these pillars support the Foundation’s vision of a more […]
All sorts of things, including new mobile platforms, up-skilling, counselling and support for all things techie and entrepreneurial. Oh yes, and also renewed hope for reformed gangsters and drug addicts. Lots of it. [wooslider slider_type=”attachments”] A few years ago Marlon Parker was pushing trolleys at the airport in Cape Town. He did not know what […]
[wooslider slider_type=”attachments”] So you’ve got a socially innovative project or product off the ground. But not that far off the ground – it’s pretty much working at grassroots level. This is when most innovators want to start rolling it out and scaling it up to something bigger and (hopefully) more beneficial. But Warren Nilsson has […]
The Bertha Centre has been chosen as one of just four hubs around the world to form part of the Center for Education Innovation (CEI) and participate in a global initiative to understand effective ways to improve access to quality education in emerging economies. [wooslider slider_type=”attachments”] “The Results for Development Institute in Washington DC has […]
It started as a 16-year-old girl’s gardening experiment. But it’s grown into a social innovation that’s turning heads and winning awards in the international social investment community [wooslider slider_type=”attachments”] Messages of congratulations from around the world have gone to Reel Gardening – a team including two UCT MBA students, both from the Social Innovation Lab […]
Students get inventive for the MPhil in Inclusive Innovation Studies. [wooslider slider_type=”attachments”] It’s a degree for unconventional thinkers looking to tackle conventional emerging market challenges. It’s an MPhil with a focus on Inclusive Innovation Studies now offered by the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) in association with the Bertha Centre for […]
The Social Innovation (SI) Lab is a unique learning-by-doing social venture course in the UCT Graduate School of Business MBA. It’s led by the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. This lab is causing creative chemical reactions in the way students think and do. [wooslider slider_type=”attachments”] “The multi-faceted challenges of today call for creative […]
Social impact is always more impactful when it works from the inside out. In other words, from within the environment, community or social challenge that it’s seeking to address. Creating an innovation, business or organisation that achieves this end has to start with the right kind of thinking. This means thinking about the problem from […]
In a bid to fight “immappancy” and chronic misjudgement of Africa’s true scale, software and computer – graphics guru Kai Krause created a public domain image that illustrates the truth. The continent is bigger than the USA, UK, Japan, China, India and the whole of Europe. All combined. No wonder there’s so much potential…
