You need more than a website to save the world
The tech is the smallest part of a social problem. Six years of Nakhwah, and what actually stood in the way of matching volunteers to work.
Aspiring social entrepreneurs need to understand that the tech component of solving a social problem is only a very small part of it.
They need to realise they might be addressing deeply entrenched social practices.
The idea of creating a platform to match volunteers with opportunities keeps popping up at hackathons and social entrepreneurship competitions I attend, and this is a good example of one area where social entrepreneurs need to see past the tech to solve a problem.
The idea of creating matching platforms for volunteers and opportunities has been around for a long time, but building the site is easy in comparison to dealing with the norms of cultural and social practices around volunteering.