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Blog Roundup: M-PESA, Paying for Healthcare, $10 Laptop
Between all the travel and other goings on here, I haven’t had my customary quiet time with Bloglines lately.? So I’ll be going through my lists over the next couple days and posting up links and excerpts from the past week or two gradually.? Before we begin, however, don’t forget...
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Guest Blogger: Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice
Guest blogger Patrick Donohue is the Founder of BRINQ and a Senior Consultant at Enterprise for a Sustainable World (ESW), one of a select group of business professionals working at the grassroots intersection of innovation, poverty, and business. He holds degrees from Stanford University and...
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Rising Ventures: Electrocell – Ready to Launch the Hydrogen Economy in Brazil
A chance meeting in a coffee bar at the University of Sao Paulo led scientists Gehrard Ett and Gilberto Janolio to create what would become the Latin-American leader in fuel cell technology. Today, Electrocell is ready to launch the hydrogen economy in Brazil.The offices of Electrocell are...
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Can India Afford Its Villages?
Atanu Dey, chief economist at Netcore Solutions in Mumbai and author of the Rural Infrastructure Services Commons (RISC) model and Reuben Abraham (right), director of the Cornell/ ISB Base of the Pyramid Learning Lab at the Indian School of Business make a case for developing urban strongholds...
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Bridging the Finance Gap for a Generation of “Philanthropreneurs”
Late last month, Dr. Nachiket Mor, Deputy Managing Director of the ICICI Bank and Chairman of the New Ventures India Steering Committee announced that his bank would be launching a 100 crore fund for green businesses in emerging markets with a focus on SMEs. 100 crore is a serious commitment,...
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Changemakers – Putting Health Innovations into Practice
Web 2.0, meet BOP. (Wow, now that is a jargon-laden sentence.) Hopefully my jargon serves to highlight some of the latest efforts to bring the broad web community together in search of the next, best base of the pyramid idea. Yesterday, I introduced IBM’s upcoming ThinkPlace Challenge -...
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BOP Job Announcements – Intellecap and IAMFI
A couple of BOP-related jobs have come across my desk lately.? Read on for the full descriptions:Intellecap is a consulting firm focused on capital advisory for the inclusive finance space and creating and delivering mainstream, profitable solutions to address the problems of poverty and...
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Big Blue Going to the BOP
It’s been quiet here on NextBillion the last few days - not by design, but rather out of necessity. Al just returned from two weeks of travel throughout Asia, and met Tuesday and Wednesday here in DC with our partners at Intel and MicroVest. Meanwhile, Bill just returned from Dubai, and...
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