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Don’t Wait for the Rain: Social Marketing for KickStart’s MoneyMaker
NextBillion ally Cat Laine - editor of the excellent AIDG blog - posted a fantastic social marketing video earlier this week that I just had the chance to look at today. Entitled Don’t Wait for the Rain, the video features Maasai rap artist Mr. Ebbo alongside actors portraying the...
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StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation: NYC 2008
We are all looking for opportunities to develop our ability to address poverty and underserved markets with business solutions. One forum that brings together students and young professionals to connect around these ideas is StartingBloc. I was encouraged to apply to StartingBloc through...
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BoP Protocol Releases 2nd Edition
What does a next-generation BoP strategy look like?? How do large companies work effectively (and profitably) with the BoP?? What have we learned in the years since Stuart Hart and C.K. Prahalad published their s+b article, Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid?If you’re looking for...
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New Report: How to Make Mobile Phone Banking Secure
Mobile phone banking is already fully commercial in the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya. It’s about to happen in perhaps a dozen additional countries. With more than 1.5 billion mobile phones deployed in the developing world, the potential market is large and growing. The need is...
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Introducing Staff Writer Francisco Noguera
The New Ventures team is proud to welcome Francisco Noguera on board as the latest addition to our pool of talented NextBillion.net Staff Writers. Francisco, a native of Colombia comes to NextBillion.net with a deep understanding of issues around implementation of BoP initiatives. In...
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Mapping Clean Energy Opportunities for the BoP
So what does it take to supply millions of households in emerging economies with clean renewable energy? We often talk about finance, new models, willing entrepreneurs. Kenneth Westrick, CEO of energy consulting group 3Tier says it’s information.Really? Hard to believe this at a time...
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Technology: A Key to BoP Success?
What do Aravind Eye Care, d.light design, Ekgaon Technologies, ITC’s e-Choupal, and the much awaited Tata Nano have in common? New market segments? Radically new paradigms?Technology?As the BoP discussion moves from whether-to-invest to where-to-invest, there is an increasing need to...
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Kenya Stories – Africa IS Open for Business
NextBillion ally Bill Stevenson - who blogs for Lenovo at The Heart of Business - pointed me to a 6-minute CNN story about a recent TechnoServe business plan competition in Kenya.? Entitled “Believe, Begin, Become,” the competition’s initial 5,000 applicants were whittled down to...
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