Global Enterprise Experience – international business competition 

Congratulations to the winners of the 2008 Global Enterprise Experience.  The winning report is Team 18: BluGen with Jenna Mein (New Zealand),  Olaoye Oyinkansola Kofoworola (Nigeria), Maria Camila Herra Sepulveda (Colombia) and Juliana CaceresGiraldo (Colombia).  The project was to buy decommissioned ships with desalination facilities and produce drinking water for the coast of India. 

The winning journalist is Aremu Adewale Abedimi of Nigeria. 

Winners of the voeveo Commitment Awards are Aremu Adewale Abedimi (Nigeria), Salawu Muideen Oluwatosin(Nigeria), Shergan (Iran - full name suppressed for student safety), Jose Daniel Zamorano Mejia (Colombia), Debasish Kumar Das (Bangladesh), Wadzanai Murau (Zimbabwe), Daniel Nzohabonimana (Rwanda), Stanislav Shateev (New Zealand), Norma Garza Bedolla (Mexico), and Ashutosh Mani Dixit (Nepal).  Please view the stories on their extraordinary courage and commitment in the 2008 archives.

Each team had seven contestants from four countries.  Certificates and letters of recommendation will be posted to all successfully completing participants from whom we received a journal.


The 2008 judges were the Hon Lianne Dalziel (New Zealand Minister of Commerce), Jurriaan Kamp (Editor-in-Chief of Ode Magazine, a global magazine that focuses on positive news stories in the world www.odemagazine.com) and Helen Sherpa (lead projects in Nepal on enterprise education, microfinance and women's health). 


The prize giving was held in the Grand Hall at Parliament in New Zealand  on Monday July 7 hosted by the Hon Maryan Sheet (NZ Minister of Tertiary Education and Economic Development). 


Participants from all countries rate the Global Enterprise Experience as an exceptional learning experience, with comments such as:

This was the best learning experience I have received in all my years at university. (Vincent Tan, Filippino student studying in New Zealand)

This contest is not possible without the generous sponsorship from Victoria University of Wellington (www.vuw.ac.nz), HSBC (global banking, www.hsbc.com) and Te Kaihau Ltd (New Zealand innovation consultancy www.windeaters.co.nz).


For me ‘GEE’ shows how interconnected our globalised world is already and especially how the young generation can do so much to bring countries and people closer together. (Jonas Knipper Germany)
Wow! The last three weeks were exciting and I cannot believe that it is already over. (Theresa Chan, New Zealand)
For me GEE is an instrument to inspire future leaders (Jean Bosco Gakwandi, Rwanda)
I never realized that through this small competition, I could change a lot within myself. That I could find my own strong place in the crowd.” (Anil Prasain, Nepal)
“Now I understand the meaning of leader, understand the difficulty and happiness of dealing with people from different parts of the world, learning how to wait, how to forgive, how to accept the difference, how to put the right people in the right position, how to adjust to different people, and more importantly how to lead a team to the target, to be a leader. I actually like it!” (Chenjie, He, Chinese student studying in New Zealand)
This competition enriched my views on things, expanded my network of social circle, sharpened my knowledge of the world, and more importantly, granted me the opportunity to do a part for the world which I’ve always taken for granted.” (Law Yock Song, Singapore)
I really appreciated being a part of this huge international online competion which helps you to learn things you can’t learn at university – personal growth, human interaction and especially the international human interaction.“ (Katharina von Kracht, Germany)