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  • Aden Van Noppen

    Acumen Fund Will Host Summer Student Leader Workshop

    Young people today are not protesting or rioting?instead, we are proclaiming ourselves social entrepreneurs and actively searching for the best models to address poverty. This movement is brewing on campuses across the country and the world, including my own, and Acumen Fund wants to help us develop the skills and knowledge we need...

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  • Rob Katz

    Call for Papers: Impact of Base of the Pyramid Ventures

    The "Impact of Base of the Pyramid Ventures" conference will be held November 16-18, 2009 in Delft, the Netherlands. The organizers have just released a call for papers. Abstracts are due May 15; full papers are due July 15.

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  • Tayo Akinyemi

    How Can We Harness the Talent and Energy Available in this Space?

    When I think about visible entry points for BoP-focused MBAs, I can generate a list of "usual suspects". However, after the superstars are chosen, I wonder what happens to the "best of the rest" and the "rest of the rest." What happens to these people?" Is their enthusiasm lost or is it simply redirected? How can we tell? Do we care?

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  • Josh Weissburg

    Guest Post: Never Waste a Good Crisis

    During times of upheaval people are scared, but also willing to try something different. That applies in both the political and business worlds. Renew LLC sees opportunity aplenty in the midst of this crisis to create a new set of expectations between capital and the entrepreneurs who shape investment into enterprises in the developing world.

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  • David Lehr

    Mobile Health for Development: Challenges and Opportunities

    The Rockefeller Foundation, UN Foundation and Vodafone Foundation recently announced the formation of the mHealth Alliance to facilitate innovation and maximize impact in the field of mobile health (mHealth), which has drawn attention to this area. The Alliance will expand the mHealth initiatives of multiple organizations around the world.

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  • Manuel Bueno

    International Sustainability Photography Prize, Sponsored by Prix Pictet

    Nine years ago two amazing books were published by the same author: Sebasti?o Salgado. Both were photography books, "Migrations" and "The Children: Refugees and Migrants". I have never known much about photography and probably will never do, but I still clearly remember how those images followed me for days.

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  • David Peyton

    Guest Post: Why Policy Coherence Matters to the Next Billion

    The rush to embrace private-sector solutions to development challenges can lead us to ignore the importance of sound public policy. Innovative development techniques like microfinance and social entrepreneurship have demonstrated their worth but are no substitute for policies that unleash the productive power of entrepreneurs, nationally.

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  • Mark Beckford

    Mobile Disruption

    Even if PCs was made so easy to use (simplify the interface with large, logical icons) so someone that couldn’t read or had no computer skills could use the PC easily, they likely wouldn’t see that much value in it. The missing element is some unique value for consumers and enterprises at the BoP. I do not think this value exists in PCs today.

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