Entrepreneurs can help challenge inequality. We ought to provide access to resources and education and create platforms for learning and collaboration. Social entrepreneurship is all about creating economic opportunities and promoting sustainable business practices, not one-off projects, by prioritizing long-term social and environmental impact.

There must be more socially conscious entrepreneurs who can drive policy entrepreneurship. System-level changes must be done with the power of social entrepreneurship, especially in the underprivileged communities of the Global South. It shall be much effectively done by educating and co-designing with the most vulnerable in those communities to ensure solutions are most effective.

Seventy-seven percent of the world’s population is in poverty. They are at the bottom of the social pyramid. Entrepreneurship can make a difference. An old friend of mine, an Indian entrepreneur who I got to know in Silicon Valley has such an inspiring story.

His background is deeply rooted in Dalit, a term used for untouchables and outcasts who represented the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent. Many Dalits work as casual day laborers in small factories, quarries, brick kilns or on construction sites, as cycle rickshaw drivers or in petty trade. My friend was nobody and a modern-day slave.

This poor Indian friend gained simple technical skills from a local education center organized by Methodist missionaries. He got a small........

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