2022-12-22 2021 Impact Frontier Lab Final Presentation will be held on January 14, 2023. Do you want to know the results of the pioneer team’s action? Please click on the event registration link: www.accupass.com/go/iflabexhibition
2022-3-5 The Impact Frontier Lab Program Demo Day ended successfully today! Congratulations to Hyweb Global Technology, DOMI Earth, and Just Go Enterprise for being selected as the PIONEERS!! Also, cheers for Agriforward, who won the special judge’s prize! The four finalists above will implement their programs in our allied countries in Latin America and the Caribbean! You can watch the live stream of the Demo Day HERE.
2022-2-26 Now, you can also make an impact by VOTING FOR THE TEAM!! Before the last team’s presentation on our Demo Day, you can vote for your favorite team and help them win the pioneer prize! Click this LINK to support the most innovative and potential program!
2022-2-16 We welcome you to join the Demo Day now! The event will be held at the Creative Forum of Taiwan Design Research Institute from 13:30 to 18:30 on March 5th. Besides the final pitch, we will also have an exhibition of 10 teams’ projects. You can know about our social innovation programs by these 2 different ways! Click THIS LINK to sign up now!!
2022-2-09 Acceleration Lab- 6th Training Session: This session included two courses, one was focusing on climate change and its business opportunities to discuss the resilience of business model to climate change, and the other was on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) development and its business opportunities to find the solution to their financial difficulties.
2022-1-26 Acceleration Lab- 5th Training Session: This session included two courses, one was focusing on smart agriculture and its business opportunities to emphasize importance of easy interaction with local farmers, and the other was on communication skills for international aid to stress the needs of satisfaction among multi-stakeholders.
2022-1-19 Acceleration Lab- 4th Training Session: We invited Dr. Ko, an expert in the Social Value Associate on Social Resource on Investment (SROI) from Ocean Affairs Council, to assist participants in anticipation of the correlation between the investments and impacts through reviewing their proposals.
2022-1-12 Acceleration Lab- 3rd Training Session: We invited Professor Huang from National Chengchi University to share how to build sustainable business models through a case study. Besides, we also invited representatives from Microsoft Taiwan and Cathay General Hospital to share their experiences in digitalization and business opportunities. To encourage and provide their insights on international aid to the participants, the Deputy Secretary-General Alex Shy of the TaiwanICDF joined the workshop and advised each team.
2022-1-5 Acceleration Lab- 2nd Training Session: We invited counselor H.F. Chen from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to share the concept of bilateral cooperation and development. Also, we invited the chief strategy officer, Calvin Lai, from National Taiwan University to give us a workshop in design thinking.
2021-12-22 Acceleration Lab- 1st Training Session: We have the Secretary General from TaiwanICDF, Timothy T. Y. Hsiang, to share the experience and strategy on Public-Private-People Partnership of TaiwanICDF in today’s session. In addition, W. Chou, the vice counselor from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs talked about her experience of participating in promoting innovation in Silicon Valley. She encouraged the teams to connect with international innovation development, let the world see Taiwan! Please check what we have learned today!
2021-12-6 We officially announced the result of the first phase competition on the TaiwanICDF website! Congratulations to the ten finalists!!
2021-11-23 The first phase competition of the Impact Frontier Lab will be held on Dec. 1st.
2021-10-26 Impact Frontier Lab Launch Press: “The 2021 Development x Innovation x Sustainable Acceleration Program – Impact Frontier Lab” has officially launched!!