Where in the World is … ELISE communications?

Happy New Year! We hope all of you are as excited for 2010 as we are here at ELISE. This is proving to be a fantastic year, chock-full of many new events and experiences. Over the next few months ELISE will be on the go, East Coast to West Coast and everywhere in between.

Here is just a sampling of some of our exciting work to come:

February 11-13, 2010: Tech4Society, an Ashoka-Lemelson celebration, will be held in Hyderabad, India. Tech4Society is a three-day conference that is expected to draw over 250 social entrepreneurs, innovators, business leaders and movers and shakers who will explore how technology can drive social change.

March 5, 2010: Opening of the Marvels and Ciphers exhibit at the museum at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Old City, Philadelphia. The world premiere exhibition examines the dichotomy that exists between scientist and citizen: the first group trying to understand the universe, and the second trying to understand the scientist.

March 8, 2010: Richard Holmes will be hosting a lecture and reading at CHF. Holmes is a biographer, whose latest book, The Age of Wonder (2008), was recently named the best nonfiction book of 2009 by TIME.  The Age of Wonder focuses on the life and work of the Romantic-age scientists who laid the foundation for modern science.

March 25-27, 2010: NCIIA’s annual March Madness for the Mind 2010 will be held at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, California. The event showcases the nation’s top “E-Teams”—collaborating groups of college students, faculty and industry mentors who have received NCIIA grants—unveiling their inventions to the public, many for the first time.

Week of April 12, 2010: Launch of Kirk Boyd’s book, 2048: Humanity’s Agreement to Live Together, in San Francisco, California. The University of California, Berkeley Law Professor’s book focuses on an enforceable international agreement that will create a social order based upon human rights.

We are looking forward to all that 2010 has to offer.  Let us know if we will see you at any of these events and be sure to visit us on this blog and our Facebook and Twitter pages for updates.

ELISE Welcomes New Client: Kirk Boyd, Human Rights Advocate

At ELISE, we are proud to work with clients who do their part to support social innovation, entrepreneurship and education. And, just in time for Human Rights Day, we are excited to announce our new client, author Kirk Boyd and his book, 2048: Humanity’s Agreement to Live Together (April 2010; Berrett-Koehler Publishers).

The book furthers the ongoing international social movement started by Eleanor Roosevelt and others with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by explaining how the rights in this document can be made actionable in the courts of all countries. The plan in the book is supported by the 2048 Project at the U.C. Berkeley Law School. The Project—an affiliation of educational institutions, human rights centers, non-governmental organizations, businesses and foundations—is collaborating to educate students and the public about the evolution of human rights. If it sounds very much like the familiar saying “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness,” that would make sense because Boyd, the Executive Director of the 2048 Project and a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, has been inspired by Thomas Jefferson, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and more recently, the author of Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson.

The 2048 Project emphasizes our shared humanity, and looks to provide a process to draft an optimal international framework for enacting human rights that can be in place by the year 2048, the 100th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Welcome, Boyd, to ELISE and thank you for providing us with a guidebook on how we can participate in creating a more just society.