NewswireTODAY - /newswire/ - Abercynon, Wales, United Kingdom, 2009/08/18 - Everyone has great ideas about how to change the world we live in but few have the courage to follow their ideas through. One world-class entrepreneur is setting the stage alight with his talents for using information technology to improve society.

Cllr Jonathan Bishop has been selected for inclusion in the latest edition of Who’s Who in Business and Finance and has been nominated for Best Elected Advocate for Regeneration in the Upstarts Awards 2009.

The 2009 Upstarts Awards seek to recognise and reward the individual, local authority, company, and elected official who have courageously impacted the lives of their communities. The New Statesman Upstarts Awards are now in their eighth year having been inaugurated in 2001.

Social entrepreneurs are guided by social and environmental purposes and resulting profits from their endeavors are reinvested to sustain and cultivate their mission for positive change. These dynamic enterprises and individuals with a social purpose invigorate the UK economy and challenge the traditional role of companies as profit-driven ventures. There are approximately 62,000 social enterprises in the UK with a combined turnover of at least £27 billion.

Social enterprises foster the development of innovative business practices including vocational training, enterprise structures, creative revenue solutions and co-operative ownership models. The main beneficiaries of social enterprises are often the socially excluded; typically the long term unemployed, people with disabilities, the elderly, people on low incomes and children or young people.

Cllr Jonathan Bishop through his work at the social enterprise Glamorgan Blended Learning Ltd (glamorgan.coop) has pioneered the use of e-learning systems as the means to bring about social change. Jonathan has long argued the role of technologies such as e-learning and online communities in business and will be discussing the part online communities can play in combating the recession at the Internet, Technologies and Applications Conference on Tuesday September 8 at Glyndwr University in Wrexham.

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