技术、媒体、社会发展和金融可持续性的难以捉摸的模型
The Elusive Model of Technology, Media, Social Development, and Financial Sustainability
摘要：
我们在这篇文章中讲述了Gram Vaani长达十年的故事，这是一家社会企业，其愿景是为农村和低收入环境中的参与性媒体建立适当的ICT（信息和通信技术），以实现社会发展和社区赋权。其他社会企业将涉及Gram Vaani为生存和实现其使命而不得不进行的学习和战略支点，同时寻找一个强大的财务可持续性模式。虽然我们相信理想的模式仍然难以捉摸，但我们以一个悬而未决的问题来结束这篇文章，即区分不同类型的企业-商业或社会，营利或非营利性-的原因，并认为所有企业都应该有一个道德基础。
英文摘要：
We recount in this essay the decade-long story of Gram Vaani, a social enterprise with a vision to build appropriate ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) for participatory media in rural and low-income settings, to bring about social development and community empowerment. Other social enterprises will relate to the learning gained and the strategic pivots that Gram Vaani had to undertake to survive and deliver on its mission, while searching for a robust financial sustainability model. While we believe the ideal model still remains elusive, we conclude this essay with an open question about the reason to differentiate between different kinds of enterprises - commercial or social, for-profit or not-for-profit - and argue that all enterprises should have an ethical underpinning to their work.
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