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Accelerating Impact with Catalytic Capital
Asia sees a growing number of untapped opportunities to support underserved populations, early-stage innovations, and underfunded sectors.
Trust-Based Philanthropy
In the face of increasingly complex and, sometimes rapidly, changing needs on the ground, it is crucial to take a step back and reconsider the status quo.
APAC Sustainability Seed Fund 2.0
By leveraging the success of the first round of the APAC Sustainability Seed Fund, AVPN continues to mobilise continuum of capital into supporting climate solutions in the region.
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We are a leading ecosystem builder that is increasing the flow of financial, human, and intellectual capital from Asia and around the world into the social sector in Asia. We provide a network of peers, rigorous learning programmes, and innovative capital mobilization opportunities that make sure resources are more effectively deployed.
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Atoot: Sports for Development (S4D) Programmes for Holistic Development of Girls in Nepal
Education, Gender, Health
ReCircle: A Clean-tech Innovator on a mission to Create a Circular Economy
Water and Sanitation and Hygiene
Banka Bio: Sustainable solutions for WaSH needs in India
Water and Sanitation and Hygiene
Fair Employment Foundation: Transforming Recruitment System for Migrant Workers in Asia Pacific
Employability, Financial Inclusion, Gender, Livelihood and Poverty Alleviation
Cool Australia: Supporting Educators Globally through Cool+
Education
HOT-Open Mapping Hub (Asia- Pacific): Transforming Disaster Response, Humanitarian Action and Community Development through Open Source Technologies and Maps
Climate Action and Environment, Gender, Livelihood and Poverty Alleviation
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AVPN Global Conference 2024
As AVPN counts down to the 12th edition of the Annual Global Conference, which will take place against the backdrop of a world in great flux, it is imperative that we provide the social investment community with the most extensive opportunity yet, to learn, connect, and unite in action for Asia.
23 April 2024
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25 April 2024
Signature Event
Upcoming Events
Nominations for the 2024 Yidan Prize
31 March 2024
AVPN Monthly Member Meet-ups in Bangkok
29 February 2024
Regular Event
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We’re living in the age of videos such as Youtube and Tiktok, watching tons of videos every day generated around the world, it is because of OTP (Open Translation Platform) enabling anyone to create subtitles and translating foreign language videos into their mother language. OTP was originally made for hearing impaired people but it catalysts to consume a huge of videos for everyone who don't understand foreign languages. However, what if you are visually impaired? What if you cannot see any texts? OTP doesn't work for you. Around the globe, over 250 million are totally blind, and by 2050 according to Lancet, the ageing population of 5.5B people will suffer MMD, and 10 per cent of the population suffers Dyslexia. This trend of videos are becoming another discrimination for accessing knowledge. The traditional solution is reading printed scripts manually by volunteers and or machine TTS (Text to Speech) features, but it has a limited approach and time/cost expensive. TTS sounds robotic, uncomfortable to listen, and difficult to keep focus.
Vook is an ODP (Open Dubbing Platform) and an OAP (Audiobook). It’s a social recording solution for videos and texts anyone can join via the web. First of all, you can dub any public videos with subtitles by entering URL. Vook automatically extracts scripts from video, let you record sentence by sentence following the guidelines. Need to re-record some sentence? Just click any sentence and record it again. Vook constructs audio stream perfectly synced with original videos. You can play a video in your language. Vook also provides audiobook function to record e-book or printed book into audio as the same concept of video dubbing. We hope Vook to contribute to the visually impaired and distribute many ways by catalyzing to produce audio contents. Since the audiobook market is fast-growing, we also expect children, the elderly, as well as many people in developing countries, participate in the market as a new kind of job using their voices.