The whole world is facing many global problems like plastic waste pollution, global warming, while material wealth is rising but the quality of human life is declining, and billions of people still living in poverty. Today, the whole world is moving from a gray economy to a green economy, a shared economy, an economy spanning, a cyclical economy. Businesses that make an impact are the businesses of the modern business model of green economy, economic coverage.

A business that creates a social impact is the type of business that balances between:
create economic value for society
address emerging social / environmental issues

Enterprises that create social impacts are models of creating multi-values: economic values, social values, environmental values, human values, cultural values, and doing business with kindness.
Businesses that create a social impact can be an IT enterprise that provides training and job creation for people with disabilities
The social impact enterprise can be an organic farm business, ecological agriculture
Enterprises that create social impacts can be a fashion-making enterprise using traditional dyes and fabrics to preserve national identity and export high-end fashion to the international market.
The social impact enterprise can be a small employer employing autistic people
A social impact enterprise could be a design business that creates cheap electricity generating turbines from buckets that supply electricity to homes in the Red River Delta.
Businesses that create social impact can be businesses with app-sorting and garbage collection in urban households
Businesses that create social impact receive the support and love of the community and are a rapidly growing trend in the world. In Viet Nam, there are about 2,000 social enterprises and 20,000 enterprises making social impact, accounting for 4% of the enterprise sector in Vietnam.

However
Scholars want to study about this area, do not know where to get the data?
The community wants to support these businesses, only 1-2 businesses, and businesses are too small to have a website and facebook, so also do not know where to find them conveniently?
Angels, investors, goodwill investors want to find these businesses to invest, support, but do not have much information about them?
Policymakers have also recognized the importance of this business sector, but little is known about this area.

#imap is the solution to the questions above

#imap is a platform for connecting business ecosystems - startups that create social impact

#imap helps enterprise validation create the right social impact

#imap makes it easy for consumers to locate businesses that have a social impact, what products, where to buy them

#imap helps international organizations, investment funds make it easy to locate and identify the business they want to support, invest

#imap helps big businesses find niche businesses that are relevant to connecting markets.

#imap helps policymakers get a common picture of the region, from quantity to economic and social value, to develop appropriate support policies.

#imap is not just a digital map, it's an interactive digital map, where users can recommend, check in, like, share, score, respond to Businesses make impact on maps and on social networks. This helps businesses to communicate more widely, as well as improve the quality of their products and services to create more economic and social value.

#imap - business ecosystem that creates social impact in Vietnam

#imap is a product of CSIE - Center for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, National Economics University.
#imap is developed within the framework of a partnership between CSIE and the Center for Social Innovation, Trinity College, Dublin University, funded by the Irish Embassy in Vietnam.