Social Enterprise Gains Momentum/Les Entreprises Sociales Prennent Leur Envol
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Abstract
The 2013 Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF 2013) in Calgary will from October 2-4, 2013 bring together 1,200 individuals from more than 30 countries and speakers from more than 20 countries. Attendees will come from diverse backgrounds - social enterprise practitioners from all sectors, traditional non-profits, for-profit businesses, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, the public sector, support agencies, funders and investors, consultants, indigenous groups, and students - but all share a dedication to resolving the world's most complex and confounding social challenges. See: http://www .socialenterpriseworldforum.org/ .SEWF 2013 will focus on six program tracks:1. Social Finance/Impact Investing;2. Indigenous Social Enterprise;3. Social Enterprise Skills Building;4. Research and Public Policy;5. Cross-Boundary Collaboration;6. Social Innovation.Each session will be recorded and posted online so that the discussions and insights can be consulted again and again by everyone dedicated to the advancement of social enterprise.To complement the practitioner-focused SEWF, Peter Elson of Mount Royal University and Peter Hall of Simon Fraser University are organizing a SEWF Preconference Research Day on October 1 at Mount Royal University. The research day will explore the multiple connections between social-enterprise research and practice.This watershed event in Canada reflects a socialenterprise movement that is gaining momentum across the country, catching up in many respects to the flagship developments that have been taking place in Quebec since the mid-1990s. British Columbia and Nova Scotia have introduced Community Interest Corporation (CIC) legislation; other provinces are exploring social impact bonds, loan guarantees, and training and incubation programs. Enterprising Non-Profits (enp), launched in Vancouver in 1997, has now expanded to five affiliates in Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario (2), and Nova Scotia. See: http://www.enterprisingnonprofits.ca/.On the research side of the equation, the fiveyear social-economy Community-University Research Alliance (CURA, 2005-2011) certainly explored social enterprises to one degree or another, and a current CURA at the Social Economy Centre at the University of Toronto has a dedicated focus on social enterprise. See: http://socialeconomycentre.ca/. Peter Elson and Peter Hall have conducted province-wide socialenterprise surveys in five provinces, and more are in the planning stages. See: www.sess.ca.There are also research centres dedicated to social enterprise, such as the Sprott Centre for Social Enterprises (SCSE) at Carleton University, and similar centres at Queen's University, McGill University and the University of Victoria, to name a few. Continuing in this trend, the university programs developed by some researchers interested in social enterprises provide training for students as well as outreach training and educational opportunities for nonprofit community groups.In March 2013, the Government of Quebec, ahead of the curve in many dimensions of the social economy, filed a draftframework law, Bill 27: Social Economy Act, to recognize the contribution of the social economy to Quebec's socioeconomic development. This bill will designate the role of government in this area, promote social-economy enterprises, and support the latter in their growth through the development or adaptation of intervention tools and strategies. Establishing general principles, the framework law will help integrate the social economy in development activities. An action plan should be available by April 1, 2014.ANSERJ would like to invite you to contribute to this growing momentum by submitting an article on social enterprise for the Fall 2013 issue. Ideally, submissions should be received before the end of June. As has been clearly demonstrated, research is a critical component in fostering sound practices and innovations. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".