Articles by Scott Anderson
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Friday
December 3
2010Discussing Disqus, the Next Step in NB?s Interactive Community
Next week, we hope to drastically reduce NextBillion’s diet of spam, and more importantly, take the NextBillion community to the next level of interaction. We’ll migrate NextBillion’s existing commenting system to Disqus,an open-source commenting platform that is used by many large publishers, including CNN, Engadget and Mashable.
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Thursday
December 2
2010Gold Stars: The Best of November on NextBillion
The ancient proverb, "you never step in the same river twice" also applies to blogs like NextBillion, where our content tends to flow fast. In an attempt to highlight some great posts before they are digitally washed downstream, I’d like pause at the beginning of each month to call out some of best of NextBillion for the previous month.
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Wednesday
November 24
2010Giving Thanks for Two New NB Staffers
On the eve of Thanksgiving, I’d like to express personal and professional thanks to two NextBillion contributors: Kevin Keepper and Oscar Abello.I’m happy to announce Kevin has agreed to sign on as a NextBillion Editor and Oscar has come on board as a Staff Writer.
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Monday
November 22
2010Shining a (Solar) Light on Patient Capital
The IFC/World Bank’s Lighting Africa Program report, Solar Lighting for the Base of the Pyramid, found Africa will be the world’s largest market for solar portable lights by 2015. But it will remain only potential without patient capital. Acumen CEO Jaqueline Novogratz says acceptance of patient capital is moving far faster than microfinance did.
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Thursday
November 18
2010Forum Looks at BoP in Brazil
Tomorrow in S?o Paulo, Brazil, NextBillion along with several other stakeholders, will participate an event on "Modelos De Negocios Que Reduzem a Pobreza" or for the non-Portuguese speaker, Business Models that Reduce Poverty. I briefly spoke with Rob Parkison, Coordinator for ANDE’s Brazil Regional Hub and organizer of the event.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Monday
November 15
2010Global Entrepreneurship Week: Let’s Get to Work
With 100 countries, 40,000 events and 10 million people, Global Entrepreneurship Week has grown exponentially with the global economic turndown. And never before have so many people had access to so many good ideas for starting and flourishing new enterprises.
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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Monday
November 8
2010NextThought Monday: A Closer Look at the Numbers Behind Branchless Banking
While the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman breathlessly reports on the latest mobile banking advancement in India, can we really believe the hype? Mark Pickens, Microfinance Analyst with CGAP’s Technology Program, says based on his study of 18 branchless banking providers, in fact, we can.
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Tuesday
November 2
2010Motivating MNCs to Engage BoP as Consumers and Producers
At the Net Impact Conference this past weekend, I was reminded that, by enlarge, multinational companies (MNCs) may have the interest in the BoP, but those with a deep understanding of their customers and how they live are still in very much in the minority. Dileepan Siva, Senior Manager for the Synergos Institute, offered some solutions.
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