Articles by Rob Katz
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Tuesday
May 22
2007Development Marketplace Blog and HealthStore on PBS
If you’re in Washington DC today and/or tomorrow, be sure to stop by the Development Marketplace event at the World Bank.? For those unable to make it to DC, or stuck in meetings both days (me), don’t fret - there’s a blog!? The Development Marketplace blog, Hot Ideas/Cool...
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Monday
May 21
2007Wednesday: A Day in the Life of a BOP Consultant – RSVP
Reminder: This is on Wednesday; please RSVP.Ever wondered how you can move into the elusive world of BOP consulting? The DC chapter of the International Private Enterprise Group is pleased to announce its May meeting, “A Day in the Life of a BOP Consultant.” The featured speaker...
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Thursday
May 10
2007Guest Blogger: Power, Politics, and Money in Pakistan
Guest blogger James Dailey consults with Sevak Solutions and is CTO of Microfinance Clearinghouse.? He was founder of the Microfinance Open Source initiative while at Grameen Foundation.? Pakistan is home to at least 160 million souls, many of them at the “base of the pyramid"...
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Thursday
May 10
2007Development Marketplace and Chicago Microfinance Conference
Two upcoming events are worth noting - the Development Marketplace and the Chicago Microfinance Conference.? Registration is open for both.? Here’s a bit more detail: Development Marketplace is a competitive grant program of the World Bank that funds creative, small-scale development...
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Wednesday
May 9
2007International Private Enterprise Group – DC – A Day in the Life of a BOP Consultant
Ever wondered how you can move into the elusive world of BOP consulting? The DC chapter of the International Private Enterprise Group is pleased to announce its May meeting, “A Day in the Life of a BOP Consultant.” The featured speaker will be Andrew Mack, founder and Principal of...
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Tuesday
May 8
2007Blog 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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Tuesday
May 8
2007Guest 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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Friday
May 4
2007Changemakers – 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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