During a research trip to Eritrea focussing on social entrepreneurship the founder of Glovico - Tobias Lorenz - realized that after decades of traditional development cooperation we should look for more technology-based and innovative ways to allow developing countries to prosper. Looking for entrepreneurial solutions to tackle worldwide poverty the idea was born to initiate intercultural dialogue and generate income at the same time. Tobias started to wonder: Who could teach languages better than native speakers? In this way Glovico tries to realize a vision that combines entrepreneurship with social change. In the same vein Mashable considers us one of the eight ways in which technology is improving education.

We are internationally present with our country representatives in Spain (Fernando Gago), UK (Phil Westcott) and USA (Nicholas Java). Fernando (fernando.gago@glovico.org), Andreas (andreas.vangerow@glovico.org), Phil (phil.westcott@glovico.org) as well as Nicholas (nicholas.java@glovico.org) will be happy to hear from you. Fernando and Phil are currently doing an MBA at IESE Business School in Barcelona while Andreas is pursuing a PhD at the ETH in Lausanne. Nicholas is in the MBA program at Columbia university. All of them are driven by the idea to make the world a better place through social innovation.

It is to be credited to a series of persons that Glovico.org could be implemented. First of all Kareem Bayo and Oliver Böhm have to be mentioned for conceiving the name Glovico.org (Global Video Conference). Jessica Gronau drafted the logo and was instrumental in shaping the Corporate Identity. The team of Silpion IT Solutions around Patrick Postel (Lydia Gripp, Roland Beintner, Aiko Böhm & Alexander Schwenn) was a major support in setting up the website. In tax issues Glovico is advised by Uwe Riediger from steueragenten.de and legal expertise was very generously provided by Rode + Mathé. Sarah Bungey helped us a lot with translation issues and Johanna Ayecke is a major support in all kinds of things. Furthermore we are very grateful for Andreas van Vangerow's efforts to build up a Swiss subsidiary. A big thanks also goes to my friend Kerstin Humberg for being a challenging sparring partner both in academic and business issues in the entrepreneurial fight against poverty. Yet, far too many partners support our venture to list them all individually here.

Nonetheless, none of this could have happened without the support of the Hamburg Foundation for Business Ethics - both on a personal level but also through expertise and contacts. Thanks a lot to everybody!