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).