Leveraging Information Technology to Stimulate Social Entrepreneurship among the Underprivileged Community

Information Technology is often associated with the modern and sophisticated things where the most users are usually related with good financial means. Not surprisingly, most success stories on the utilization of Information Technology mostly come from those people who are able to use high-tech devices. For the poor, the gadget and internet usage is still a luxury and requires an additional expenditure beyond their basic necessities. However, the poor should be able to enhance their financial opportunities if the university can recommend the appropriate information technology to them. The technology does not always mean high-tech and expensive. The effectiveness in the Information Technology usage could be learnt by the student and lecturer before they do the community service to obtain the optimum benefit for good impact for their economic welfare. Unfortunately, most of the community service programs are often associated with the only basic needs of the community and the greater potential of information technology is never introduced by the university students and lecturers. This paper will describe a strategy to encourage university’s Social Entrepreneurship to empower underprivileged communities by leveraging Information Technology, as part of the implementation of university’s awareness which should combines the academic advancement and concern for poverty. The expected final result of the proposed social entrepreneurship is to establish financial independence among the poor and their neighborhoods