What a 12 months 2020 was; with the onset of the pandemic, every thing modified. Those that pivoted and embraced the adjustments rapidly stood like a beacon of hope for the remainder.
As the primary circumstances of COVID-19 had been confirmed globally, the group operating SAP One Billion Lives, the corporate’s flagship social intrapreneurship program, understood that 2020 can be the 12 months the place every thing would wish to maneuver on-line.
‘If there have been ever a 12 months to have fun the creativity, collaboration, and keenness of our individuals, this could be that 12 months,’ mentioned Deb Kaplan, head of SAP One Billion Lives. ‘This 12 months’s groups have been put to the check to unravel social and environmental issues targeted on the United Nations Sustainable Growth Targets and COVID-19 in a completely digital surroundings. With a worldwide pandemic displacing many groups from each other on account of lockdowns and quarantines, these groups continued to push themselves to search out new methods to work collectively, clear up issues, talk extra successfully, and full the journey that they began and refused to surrender on.’
Groups from throughout the globe joined the 2020 SAP One Billion Lives challenges with over 640 submissions. Greater than 2,000 staff examined their limits, collaborating in over 40 digital thought factories, seven regional demo days, quick monitor enablement, base camp, accelerator, and funding committee meetings-all to make a distinction in our communities and enhance individuals’s lives.
After efficiently evaluating all displays, we’re excited to share the 2020 groups inside SAP One Billion Lives with essentially the most mature and impactful social innovation concepts.
Impression Enterprise
Recycletronics
Recycletronics will construct a market for digital producers and e-waste recyclers to drive worth from unused electronics whereas addressing the unfavorable impression of e-waste on the surroundings and human well being. Learn more.
Regional Impression Transformation Ventures
Social Recruiting
There are presently greater than 1 billion individuals on this planet affected by poverty. In Japan, that is no exception. Whereas the third-largest economic system on this planet, its poverty ranges hover round 16%, even previous to COVID-19. Compounded with the results of the pandemic, individuals are much more at a drawback. So how SAP assist? This group from Japan was capable of finding an answer. Learn more.
Masks Makers Platform
By reusing facial masks, poisonous emissions could be decreased by as much as 84%. The group behind Masks Makers Platform noticed these statistics and realized that in COVID-19 the necessity for masks that had been reusable was not solely obligatory, it was vital. Learn more.
Sebenza
Coming from many alternative backgrounds, group members rapidly discovered a standard thread throughout their thought manufacturing facility session: the rising problem of unemployment. Compounded with the present pandemic, this gaping problem was turning into even bigger-fast. Learn more.
Athena
As we speak, it’s estimated that one in 15 individuals in China lives with a incapacity, affecting 20% of households. As well as, a 2013 report performed by Human Rights Watch discovered that 43% of disabled individuals in China had been illiterate, in comparison with 5 p.c of able-bodied counterparts. The report additionally famous that with limits to assist, roughly 15% obtain any funding or assist. With these limitations in place, these communities are sometimes dwelling in poverty with no technique of getting out. That is the place group Athena hopes to make a distinction. Learn more.
Greensap
Inside one 12 months, deforestation inside the Amazon rose almost 30%, creating much more pressure on the pure world. The mission of 1 non-governmental group (NGO) to assist communities inside the Amazon helped this group establish and clear up two frequent ache factors for NGOs by making a platform to assist streamline processes and create transparency the place it’s wanted most. Learn more.
Cloud for Biodiversity
On common, animal populations-including mammals, reptiles, fish, and others-have declined by 68% within the final 50 years. The very fact is staggering and leaves an enormous disaster for the well-being of our planet that Cloud for Biodiversity plans to handle. Learn more.
TutorAll
Within the spring of 2020, on account of COVID-19, faculties throughout the U.S. shut down and eating room tables turned the brand new college desks in a single day. A examine offered by Brown College famous that when college students begin the 2020-21 college 12 months, they had been solely returning with common 66% of the educational good points for studying in a typical 12 months and a median 44% of the mathematics good points. Educators inside the college methods had been seeing the results of the pandemic firsthand and realizing that many college students had been being put in unfair circumstances; creating an excellent greater studying hole. TutorAll, determined to discover a resolution. Learn more.
Take a Deeper Dive into the Groups
Recycletronics
As we speak, we rely closely on electronics, from the telephones in our pockets, to the computer systems we use for work and leisure. However what occurs with the previous telephones that we commerce in? Or to the computer systems that grow to be out of date? The 2019 article on downtoearth.org states that solely 20% of worldwide e-waste is recycled. In accordance with International E-Waste Monitor 2017, India generates 2 million tons of e-waste yearly, rating fifth amongst e-waste-producing nations.
The Recycletronics group, based mostly out of SAP Labs India, is working to develop a digital market for digital producers and e-waste recyclers the place they may join and purchase the supplies for secondary marketplaces. This is not going to solely assist scale back the quantity of worldwide waste, but additionally assist develop a plan for the way recycled supplies could be launched again into the business.
The important thing market can be in India, the place almost 90% of the e-waste is informally recycled, which means it’s not government-certified and poses a well being concern to employees. Shopper electronics in India account for about 70% of the overall digital waste and therefore might probably contribute $850 million worth in derived recycled uncooked supplies, if correctly launched into secondary market. The Reclycletronics group has their eyes set on growing this secondary market.
Cerebra Inexperienced, India’s largest e-waste recycler, is already onboarded, and the group appears to be like ahead to persevering with to create partnerships with extra organizations in 2021. Because the demand for electronics continues to develop, the group hopes that this enterprise will restore some steadiness to the output of waste whereas including worth to secondary markets.
Social Recruiting Platform
Whereas attending a workshop designed to fight the poverty problem, SAP Worth Advisor Skilled Satoru Ota had the thought of digitalizing a job-matching course of that might assist the unemployed people who find themselves affected by poverty to search out high quality positions. From there, Ota labored along with his group in SAP Fieldglass to find out if an answer can be attainable. As soon as the SAP Fieldglass group members had been in a position to overview, they started to tug in different staff to assist add their business information, and the group started to develop.
A differentiating facet of the Social Recruitment Platform is that it’s meant to be a community the place staff can really feel assured that firms utilizing it deal with their worker effectively whereas additionally empowering the people to be matched with positions that finest go well with them.
Staff member Roman Rozanec famous {that a} comparable endeavor was piloted within the U.S., known as SAP Fieldglass Exterior Expertise Market. This challenge was in a position to join employers who had open contract positions with job seekers. It was this expertise pool that offered vital insights for Social Recruitment Platform.
‘On the finish of the day, we all know how tough life could be to discover a job underneath the perfect of circumstances, and it’s actually heartening to know that we’ll be making a distinction by serving to poor communities get again on their ft, reestablishing themselves, and empowering them to stay a productive life,’ Ota mentioned. ‘After we achieve Japan, we hope to roll out globally. Because of SAP One Billon Lives, we have already got world entry.’
Social Recruitment Platform is presently wanting into making a customizable job matching digital platform and dealing with companions in Grameen Japan to pilot the thought.
In the long run, Ota hopes that this enterprise can be utilized by main firms throughout the industries and stakeholders. The extra firms come on board, the larger the impression the platform can have. Ota additionally hopes not solely to assist in poverty-stricken areas, but additionally to evolve to assist others, akin to artists, unbiased contractors, and people whose industries might supply poorer visibility into open positions.
Masks Makers Platform
When Juriaan Mulder, an SAP Netherlands worker, noticed the launch of the COVID-19 dash for SAP One Billion Lives in response to the pandemic, he began questioning: ‘May we do one thing to assist inside SAP?’ Mike Muurmans, Mulder’s supervisor, was supportive and allowed him to facilitate a group assembly with the presales group to brainstorm concepts.
At first of the pandemic, the masks scarcity was acute as world provide chains had been disrupted. The group tasked themselves with fixing three issues without delay: assist alleviate quick want for masks; deliver the availability chain nearer to chop down on emissions; and produce reusable masks to alleviate the landfill drawback.
They discovered the reply in making a community for 3D printing.
The community brings collectively SAP Ariba software program, clients in want of facial masks, and 3D printing companies. By means of SAP Ariba, organizations worldwide will be capable to establish 3D printing firms closest to them and buy reusable facial masks.
With the thought in place, the group created partnerships with firms which have validated and contributed to the answer and the work to develop agreements in 2021, is already underway.
‘I hope this can be a win for all events, with SAP being the host for everybody’s success,’ mentioned Mulder.
Sebenza
Many see the hiring course of as ‘discover a place, apply, get hired-rinse and repeat.’ However that isn’t the method for a lot of blue-collar employees who nonetheless battle to search out accessible alternatives. These communities typically wouldn’t have cowl letters or resumes to lean on, however nonetheless want to search out jobs to assist themselves and their households. Sebenza group determined to create a cell app to handle this example.
The group partnered with the Southern Caribbean Islands of St. Vincent and the Grenadines to hone their enterprise’s thought. As a result of the Caribbean is closely depending on tourism, the islands noticed unprecedented ranges of unemployment throughout the pandemic. With the partnership, the group was in a position have interaction IT college students on the islands and establish ministries inside the nation with which they may additional companion.
Concurrently, Sebenza labored collaboratively to create a superb cell app expertise. A survey inside Johannesburg indicated that roughly 65% of the individuals within the goal group had smartphones. Moreover, they had been in a position to establish roughly 300,000 free Wi-Fi hotspots inside the communities as effectively, which means that fifty% of the audience had private Web entry, and the remainder would be capable to simply entry by way of hotspots, which validated the mobile-first method.
When requested about his expertise with SAP One Billion Lives to date, Mario Mustapic, a senior options gross sales government for SAP Oman, shared: ‘Essentially the most spectacular half is that you simply meet as strangers, with geographical constraints, but your concepts unite you. When you validate an thought, you possibly can actually attain the regional and even world scale. It is such an awesome alternative.’
Athena
Within the small metropolis of Taicang, China, there may be an inclusion manufacturing facility to facilitate the inclusion of in another way abled individuals into society by means of significant employment. By means of the SAP Social Sabbatical program, SAP initiated a collaboration with the manufacturing facility in 2018. The group grasped simply how prevalent disabilities had been and what number of obstacles needed to be overcome by in another way abled individuals in society.
Staff Athena hopes to make a distinction by discovering what was and what was not working for the in another way abled recruitment experience-finding the gaps and dealing to unravel them. Athena has efficiently constructed and deployed an clever manufacturing planning utility for Taicang Inclusion Manufacturing facility. They’re planning to design and construct an clever device that helps recruiters discover in another way abled people who find themselves presently in search of a job. The group is also scoping out an inclusion dashboard and extra instruments that ought to not solely assist recruiters, but additionally assist the people in overcoming private life limitations as effectively.
Athena’s predominant purpose is to assist create methods by which in another way abled communities are seen, included, and accepted by society. It was right here that the group chief Jason Solar, a principal assist engineer with SAP China, defined, ‘We hope to essentially assist these individuals enhance their lives in each manner.’
Greensap
In the case of deforestation within the Brazilian Amazon, a Vox article famous that it has elevated nearly 30% between summer time of 2018 by means of July 2019. With greater than 9,700 sq. kilometers deforested, the world is larger than that of Yellowstone Nationwide Park in North America.
Inexperienced Hope is an NGO working inside the Amazon to show communities there methods to thrive economically by means of reforestation and useful resource administration. Its mission helped ignite the Greensap group’s thought.
Alejandro Vera, a Greensap group lead, was pals with Inexperienced Hope President Chan Shigematsu, and was impressed by the work the group was doing. Through the brainstorming, Greensap and Inexperienced Hope agreed to work collectively on the shortage of transparency and traceability of donated funds passing by means of the present course of.
Using the Hyperledger Material on SAP Cloud Platform and SAP HANA spatial companies, Greensap is engaged on the answer for sensible contracts that make donations clear, dependable, and conditionally tied to the automated course of monitoring.
Having validated the market hole and the necessity for an answer with NGOs, the group is presently in dialogue with quite a lot of new NGOs and certification firms to additional validate their thought.
Matheus Leao, an information scientist with SAP Latin America & Caribbean, said that certainly one of Greensap’s first objectives this 12 months can be to supply a brand new improvement backlog to replicate the adjustments that the answer has acquired, based mostly on the learnings gained from the SAP One Billion Lives occasions. Moreover, he famous that the group hopes to solidify extra partnership and safe extra pilot clients.
‘Our intention is to enhance individuals’s lives by making the planet greener,’ Leao mentioned. ‘We wish to assist reforestation initiatives worldwide, serving to deliver extra consciousness and funding to NGOs and optimizing the price of tree planting.’
Cloud for Biodiversity
In seeing the urgency round biodiversity, the Cloud for Biodiversity group was dedicated to discovering a approach to help nationwide parks and guarded areas within the efforts to protect nature and its ecosystems. Staff member Lars Friedrich, a principal enterprise course of architect for SAP Germany, felt that there have to be a manner SAP might assist flip the tide.
He was joined by Markus Herhold and Carsten Homeyer and the group met a number of related NGOs, together with the Frankfurt Zoological Society, to debate the main ache factors dealing with these biodiversity stewards. Areas for motion proved to be holistic park administration, biodiversity monitoring, and park vacationer expertise. The group determined to create an open platform that would supply digital companies to safe organic range and social-economic assist.
Translating this plan into the SAP product wheelhouse, the group famous that every problem can be finest supported by a distinct SAP resolution. For park administration, the group would work to digitalize park processes, akin to finance, gross sales, and human sources (HR), by means of SAP Enterprise One.
For biodiversity monitoring, SAP Enterprise Know-how Platform can be used to create a monitoring platform for key biodiversity indicators, animal well being, and different important data in protected areas. And park and vacationer expertise would rely closely on Expertise Administration options from SAP and Qualtrics to measure the expertise of vacationers and supply suggestions to the park, businesses, and surrounding communities.
‘This can actually be a win-win scenario for everybody – from parks and guarded areas to NGOs, SAP, and establishments that wish to make investments on this space,’ mentioned Homeyer.
Echoing his sentiment, Friedrich added, ‘I consider SAP might be an actual function mannequin right here and supply clients a approach to offset carbon footprint, or perhaps a manner by which they may make investments into nature and biodiversity.’
As a subsequent step, the group will pilot Cloud for Biodiversity in 2021 with Frankfurt Zoological Society and two related nationwide parks in Africa: Gonarezhou in Zimbabwe and North Luangwa in Zambia.
TutorAll
Sachin Bapat, a price advisor professional at SAP North America, has been concerned non-profits and volunteering inside the training realm for years. Having had concepts about methods to assist drive fairness in training, within the spring of 2020 Bapat noticed the necessity to assist educating college students greater than ever before-and determined that he wanted to discover a resolution.
Bapat remembers considering, ‘Can we take what’s already occurring by means of the nonprofit brick and mortar organizations and get that on-line?’ As he started to succeed in out to his community, he was in a position to create a group inside SAP who shared his ardour for training. By means of an thought manufacturing facility session and lots of teamwork, the product was molded into what it’s at the moment: a platform for end-to-end means of recruiting, onboarding, and coaching tutors.
In early 2021, the group hopes to companion with United Method of Atlanta to execute a proof of idea with the intention to create a minimal viable product.
TutorAll sees the enterprise using SAP SuccessFactors options, SAP Enterprise Know-how Platform, and Expertise Administration options from SAP and Qualtrics as they proceed to work on the instruments for the platform. The intention is deal with what the nonprofits want instantly, and finally create a platform that permits totally different finish consumer journeys that can differ for college students, tutors, directors, and so forth.
Bapat notes that the top purpose is widespread adoption of the answer. As the answer’s worth proves itself, the answer ought to scale to greater faculties inside the state, then to nationwide stage, and at last to global-level businesses.
‘The dream is to have tens of millions of scholars utilizing TutorAll for his or her profit the world over,’ Bapat defined.
‘SAP is uniquely positioned as a result of we have already got training options for native, state, and federal governments. As soon as we now have the mannequin validated, we would like to have the ability to make the most of these relationships to drive a lot quicker and far broader functions.’
