Time flies as we have undergone rapidly changing events throughout March. Among others, our attention were, and are still occupied with the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the first case in Indonesia was officially announced in the early March, the curve keeps rising, resulting in widespread fear and some emergency policies such as social distancing, work-from-home, home-learning, rapid-test, and even local lockdowns.
However, widespread social supports are also seen as people sharing advices on how to prevent oneself getting infected by the virus, tips for effective work-from-home, donations for medical staffs and those economically affected by the virus, as well as supporting messages on social media.
Yes! In a heavy time like today, supports from each other are critically needed to keep us moving and stay hopeful. Reminiscing the good past times probably can also cheer us up a lil bit or more. As we are stepping into April, it's no wrong to throwback to some happy moments we experienced in March, don't you think?
We in YCSEA team were happy that despite the pandemic, we managed to welcome 10 finalists of YCSEA 2.0 from different cities, to our bootcamp in Jakarta on March 8 - 12 2020. Bearing in mind the safety of all the finalists and committees, we frequently reminded them to keep themselves clean by washing hands or using hand sanitizer, and to be attentive to their body condition by checking-up their body temperature and use face-mask when having cough. Thankfully, all of us remained healthy till the last day of the bootcamp.
We closed the Presentation Day with the announcement of the three winners of YCSEA 2.0 Female Socio-techpreneur Edition. They were #KampungMarketer as the 1st Winner, Nichoa Chocolate #HealthyChocolateCulture as the 2nd Winner, and #MooiPapua as the 3rd Winner. Congratulations! Big shout out also to other finalists Aakar Studios #MengAakar, #DarahKita, #GestureLinguistic, #GumiBamboo, #MenganyamPesisirWomenEmpowerment, Inowastech #lanjutkanpilahsampah, and Spairum #BebasPlastik.
After four intensive days of learning all those materials, the finalists finally met the most thrilling day of the bootcamp: the Presentation Day at @america where they delivered a 3 minutes pitch about their social enterprise in front of judges and the audience.
Some of our other partners also gave some additional materials about how to find mentors, how to find investors, how to effectively utilize social media for campaign and promotion, and how to succeed in pitching.
We hope all the best for all the finalists in their future endeavours. We hope them all continue making good, wider impact to communities in their surroundings. And may this post can motivate them to do so, especially in this difficult time.
Good luck to you all too, Changemakers! Thank you for having followed YCSEA 2.0 #BeSociopreneur journey since the beginning. Cheers!
The bootcamp was a story to remember 😃 All the finalists and committees got to know each other, and soon became friends. The bootcamp was carried out in a quite fun way, in order to keep finalists motivated and cheered up despite the very intense bootcamp materials.
As much as it was expected, the finalists were all enthusiastic in following all the bootcamp schedule, and especially with the bootcamp materials prepared by Campaign.com and Social Innovation Acceleration Program (SIAP). The materials covered important knowledge about developing social enterprise, such as team building, product development, measurement of social impact, financial management, and crisis management.
The finalists and all the audience also gained more insight from a talk show discussing the current climate for women in entrepreneurship, how they could remain competitive, and how the industry could continue to support them. Speakers in the talk show were Evan Fowler (Economic Officer at the U.S Embassy Jakarta), William Gondokusumo (CEO Campaign.com and YCSEA Representative), Erika Dianasari Go (Partner at Alpha JWC Venture), Aghnia Banat (Managing Director of SIAP and Bootcamp Facilitator) and Alivia Alfiarty (Project Manager Bumi Kami, Finalist of YCSEA 1.0).
They also got a chance to open a mini booth to showcase their products and to network with their future potential customers and investors.
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