Kulsoom Khan works in Ashoka's global headquarters, helping to select Ashoka Fellows throughout Asia and coordinating with Ashoka's Asia country offices. She received her degree in Human Rights Law at American University.

If you educate a boy, you educate an individual.
If you educate a girl, you educate a community.
-African Proverb

No offense to boys, but if social entrepreneurs really get it right, as I have the sneaking suspicion they will continue to do, women will one day rule the world.

A few weeks ago, I wrote on the potential for smartphones to aid in UN Peacekeeping missions. Read my entries here and here.

The response to these posts has been very thought-provoking. People close to the UN were particularly interested in exploring the idea more, and I have been working with them to more fully explore the possibilities. I hope to write more on the outcomes of those conversations in the near future.

There have also been challenges to the idea, especially from Tomi Ahonen. His views are presented here. What follows below is my response to Mr. Ahonen.

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Tomi,

Ashoka Fellow Eric Dawson, Founder of Peace Games, shares his solution to creating a more peaceful society: by empowering students - even as young as age four - to be peacemakers in and outside the classroom.

I recently had the privilege of attending the 2009 Games for Change conference at the New School in New York. Games for Change is the primary community of practice and international nexus for those interested in making digital games about the most pressing issues of our day—from race to poverty to the environment. Below are some interesting highlights from the conference that I think are relevant to a conversation about social entrepreneurship and peacebuilding.