Articles by Francisco Noguera
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Tuesday
November 24
2009Are You in London? Save the Date for a Conversation on Business, Poverty and Climate Change
If you happen to be in or around London the first week of December, here’s an event you won’t want to miss. Convened by our allies at Business Fights Poverty, Business Innovations to Fight Climate Change and Poverty will bring together a number of key players representing various perspectives of the development through enterprise discussion.
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Friday
November 13
2009Net Impact 2009 Kicks Off at Cornell University
Last year, while blogging from the Penn campus that hosted the 2008 edition, I alluded to 2,400 reasons to be optimistic... I hear that this year there are more reasons, with close to 2,500 attendees expected here at in Ithaca for the Net Impact 2009 Conference.
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Thursday
November 12
2009It’s the End of the Phone as We Know It
If you’ve seen it all or expect this post to be about smart phones and non-phone applications, think again. Food for thought today is Nigel Waller’s Movirtu, which may well convince you that the end of the phone as we know it is getting close.
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Thursday
November 5
2009Base of the Pyramid Career Paths: What Would You Ask?
Are you interested in getting involved in social enterprise? In finding a job and build a career around it? Perhaps even starting a venture of your own or join one that is in early stage? If your answer to any of the above was yes, you’d probably be interested in knowing how you can best prepare yourself for it.
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Friday
October 30
2009Ashoka Launches Innovative E Health Points in Rural India
I just got an email from our friends at Ashoka announcing the launch, just two days ago, of a venture that promises to disrupt and transform rural healthcare in India: The E Health Points, a joint venture led by Ashoka, the Naandi Foundation, the Government of the State of Punjab and and Healthpoint Services India Pvt. Ltd.
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Monday
October 26
2009The Base of the Pyramid at Pop!Tech 2009: Two Perspectives
I went through my conference notes and reflected on the ideas I was exposed to over the last days, thinking about how the BoP idea was or wasn’t present in the conversations at Pop!Tech, either explicitly or woven in as an underlying trend that propells the conversation from within.
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Friday
October 23
2009Pop!Tech 2009: One Times A Million or the Other Way Around? Emily Pilloton from Project H Design
Today, I had the pleasure of having lunch with Emily Pilloton, founder of Project H Design, a Pop!Tech 2009 Social Innovation Fellow and a key character in the community interested in the nexus between design thinking and social impact. She is a really fast talker but a fascinating one.
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Friday
October 23
2009Breaking News: Pop!Tech Announces New Fellows Program
The morning sessions on day 2 at Pop!Tech is halfway through, with a major announcement just made by our host and curator Andrew Zolli: the Science and Public Leadership Fellows program.
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