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Touring the New NextBillion: New Jobs, Events Calendar
With the redesigned NB, we think we’ve made it easier to find, share and submit jobs; while keeping up with important dates on your social enterprise calendar. So let me take this opportunity to quickly walk you through these new features.
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Learning From the Past, Looking Ahead: Highlights From Day 2 of the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference
“We really are at a crossroads,” The Economist’s Matt Bishop observed at the opening of the second day of Harvard’s Social Enterprise Conference. Bishop struck a theme for the day’s speakers: We’ve reached a point in time to rethink how markets work, and how more people can share in the benefits of the global economy.
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Young Entrepreneurs at the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference: Defending the American Dream, Changing the World
This weekend’s Harvard Social Enterprise Conference kicked off on a youthful note with the Young Entrepreneur’s Keynote, which included Kavita Shuka of Fenugreen, Lauren Bush Lauren of Feed Projects, and Taylor Conroy of TenInThree.com.
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The Big Idea: Domestic Remittances in Africa – Demand is There, Will the Teleco’s Step Up?
Our team added a module of over 30 questions on payments to the Gallup World Poll in 8 countries (1,000 respondents each were queried in Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Nigeria, Rwanda, D.R. Congo, Zambia, and Kenya). Questions in the module assessed respondents’ payment behaviors through services such as money transfers, international remittances, government and wage payments, and utilities and other bills.
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The Power of Exposure: The Influence of Role Models and Design on Aspirations
As a mayor of Medellín, Colombia, Sergio Fajardo wanted to provide young Colombians alternatives to crime and violence, and to change the mindset that they can’t aspire to anything better. He did it by creating aesthetically inspiring public buildings and spaces in poor neighborhoods.
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The Big Idea: (UPDATED) Simple Truths About Mobile Money
Wow, the role of mobile money has been hotly discussed across the mainstream media in recent weeks - even in Slate. There is much that I agree with in that article, and in a related critique of technology-centered development by Kentaro Toyama in CNN. So let’s unpack some of the conclusions presented in these two articles. (UPDATED: The Slate authors respond to this post).
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Weekly Roundup – 2-26-12: Making a Better Cookstove
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves’ ‘100 by 20’ goal calls for 100 million homes to adopt clean and efficient stoves and fuels by 2020.
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Transforming ‘Minegolia,’ Harnessing Mongolia’s Resource Wealth to Spur Social Development
Mongolia has been coined “the Saudi Arabia of Asia”. In this regard, Mongolia can learn from countries such as such as Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on how to best catalyze human development via business strategies through the resource boom.
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