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Day 2 at the BoP Summit: Urgent, but practical, action
On Day Two, attendees of the BoP Summit took a more functional role – brainstorming solutions to the challenges facing BoP ventures today and starting to map the future path of this vital field that aims to lift people out of poverty.
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October 22
2013Day 1 at the BoP Summit: Why BoP business practices need to move to 2.0
At the end of day one of the “BoP Summit 2013: Creating an Action Agenda for the Next Decade,” WDI Senior Research Fellow and conference organizer Ted London had a question for the participants: What will our legacy be?
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October 11
2013FEATURED EVENT: The BoP Global Network Summit 2013
Join the first BoP Global Network Summit and learn more about the practices that are revolutionizing the world economy and changing the lives of thousands in BoP communities around the world. The summit takes place Nov. 7-8 at the Natura Convention Center, Cajamar - São Paulo, Brazil.
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October 1
2013FEATURED EVENT The BoP Summit 2013: Creating an action agenda for the next decade
The “BoP Summit 2013: Creating an Action Agenda for the Next Decade” (www.bop2013.org), is set for October 21-23 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The three-day BoP Summit 2013 is specifically designed to help build better BoP enterprises of today and a more robust BoP community of tomorrow.
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On the Ground at SOCAP – Day 3: Mainstreaming impact investing, healing Detroit and developing communities
Scott Anderson and Marzena Zukowska are your roving bloggers from this week’s Social Capital Markets Conference in San Francisco.
Here’s their rundown of Day 3 (Thursday) at the sprawling social investing gathering - taken from three of the day’s many sessions.- Categories
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On the Ground at SOCAP – Day 2: Big partnerships, lean startups and government hijinks
Scott Anderson and Marzena Zukowska are your roving bloggers from this week’s Social Capital Markets Conference in San Francisco.
Here are just a few of the many snippets of wisdom they picked up during Day 2 (Wednesday) at the sprawling social investing gathering - taken from four of the day’s many sessions.- Categories
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FEATURED EVENT: Mobile Money: Technology to Transform Transactions
What if anybody with a phone could send and receive money? What if mobile money agent services could be crowd-sourced? And what if every mobile phone came with a full suite of financial services? These aspirations, and the challenges that accompany them, will be the focus of Mobile Money: Technology to Transform Transactions, a two-day conference on Sept. 19th and 20th, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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August 2
2013Featured Event: Social Capital Markets: NextBillion readers register for a 30% discount to SOCAP13
SOCAP13 will be held at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, CA from Sept. 3-6. Join the world’s pioneering impact investors, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, civic leaders, and innovators to mobilize resources and capital for good. As a media partner for SOCAP13, NextBillion readers will save 30 percent off the cost of registration.
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