Survey of Social Entrepreneurship Community Reveals Emerging Trends

This article discusses the emerging trends of social entrepreneurs and attempts to inform the readers about the perception and actual effects of social entrepreneurship. What I thought was very interesting was the author’s point on technology as a solution to address a variety of problems in society. We as a society tend to point to technology as a clear solution to everything. However, as the author mentions, with the integration of technology in these communities, there needs to be an equal understanding of the technology from the users as well. He states, “In particular, the abundance of “big data” and its potential to offer important insights is tempered by a lack of data literacy among both the public and policymakers.” Thus, it is important to note that technology is not always the answer for curing all or most societal problems in different communities.