Teaching design for change

Designer Emily Pilloton moved to rural Bertie County, in North Carolina, to engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation. She's teaching a design-build class called Studio H that engages high schoolers' minds and bodies while bringing smart design and new opportunities to the poorest county in the state. My question is what is better OLPC or teaching design?

Zimi's Story (OLPC)

"Learning is the basis for full human, social, economic and democratic development."

OLPC "one laptop per child"

 

 

'social entrepreneurship'

Normally, entrepreneurs had two choices of organizational structure when designing a start-up:

• For-profit;
• Non-profit. 

Often, people consider the distinction between the two as good versus wrong things. A non-profit’s mission is to support a social cause. That’s good. A for-profit’s mission is to maximize shareholder wealth. That’s bad. (this is one of the reasons for the crisis).
A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. In other words, rather than bringing a concept to market to address a consumer problem, social entrepreneurs attempt to bring a concept to market to address a social problem.
I think that one of the most important thinks its that the social entrepeneur adopt a mission to create and sustain social value.
I found some scheme where resume some of this points.

Social Entrepreneurs: Pioneering Social Change

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk5LI_WcosQ