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Seven Questions for Career Seekers – Finding Your Niche in Sustainable Development
In the fifth and final post in a series exploring careers in social innovation and global sustainable development for STEM professionals, Khanjan Mehta gives advice on how to get your foot in the door and network in order to "test-drive" different organizations. At the end of the day, he says, it's all about finding the right fit.
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Weekly Roundup: Uruguay smokes ‘Big Tobacco’, Safaricom ups the ante, critic pens a (RED) herring
Uruguay wins a major legal battle against a huge tobacco company, Safaricom ups the ante in its battle with banks in Kenya, and our editors take issue with a provocative critique of a popular "social venture" in this Roundup of the week's social business developments.
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Curing Pilot-itis for mHealth
How do you take mobile health projects beyond the pilot stage in low- and middle-income countries? Build for scale and sustainability from the start. That's the goal of a bot for Messenger built for the South African National Department of Health’s MomConnect maternal health platform, and launched this week at the International AIDS Conference.
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Three Growth Strategies to Boost Sri Lanka’s Microfinance Sector
Sri Lanka's microfinance industry is expected to reach maturity in the next few years, so market penetration growth strategies will shape the growth of successful players. But there is limited industry research on the country’s microfinance sector. Intellecap has attempted to bridge this gap by presenting the following market opportunities and growth strategies, based on conversations with leading practitioners, policy makers and capital providers.
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Making Impact Core to Education Companies’ Business Strategy
India's education sector faces many daunting challenges, including proving economic and social value. With so many hurdles to cross, education companies must still make quantifying their impact – and communicating those findings to the masses – a priority.
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Harnessing Mobile Technologies to Make Matatus, and Kenya, Safer
Kenya's roads are deadly due in no small part to accidents involving "matatus," the ubiquitous minibuses. A key problem: The more passengers they pick up, the more matatu drivers get paid. So Echo Mobile and a team from the University of California at Berkeley recently launched the SmartMatatu project to study driver behavior and how they might be incentivized differently.
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Swine Flu Adds to Brazil’s Zika Worries
Brazil, which will host the Olympics beginning Aug. 5, was already beset by economic problems, a political crisis and the Zika outbreak. Now it's experiencing its worst swine flu outbreak since 2009. Dr. Melvin Sanicas, a program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, wonders if this will be the crisis that forces a change to the Olympic schedule.
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Beyond the Lending Club Scandal – Why Marketplace Lending is Still Needed in Emerging Markets
Renaud Laplanche, the CEO of industry pioneer Lending Club, resigned in May amidst rumours of fraud and malpractice. Since then, critics have been trying to write off marketplace lending as a flawed business model. But it's too early to discount the value of the entire industry – especially as it emerges in markets like India and China to address the critical needs of SMEs.
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