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NexThought Monday – Windows to the World: Why Microsoft’s $75 million mobile drop across Africa matters
Microsoft will spend $75 million to put tens of millions of smart devices into the hands of African youth by 2016, the company announced in February. The weapon of choice in this effort is the Huawei 4Afrika Windows Phone 8. A slight variation of the phone targeted at European markets is twice as expensive.
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Idb Base Forum: Sharpening Focus On Bop: An Interview With Omj’s Luiz Ros on the Second International Forum in June
OMJ’s Luiz Ros says June’s second annual BASE Forum Colombia will attract more than 1,000 attendees. The focus will be on cutting edge information and new models, bringing together civil society, government, private sector to collaborate and come up with a value proposition for the base of the pyramid in the region.
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Why Reinvent the Wheel?: New BIF report looks at adapting existing infrastructure for distribution to the BoP
For those of us at Business Innovation Facility working directly with the companies managing these problems, it’s clear that most cookie-cutter solutions to distribution do not work. In the latest of our ‘Inside Inclusive Business’ series, BIF goes beyond theoretical solutions and focuses on some of the more innovative channel strategies we discovered during our engagement with companies.
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Stopping Micronutrient Deficiencies: GAIN’s Rebecca Spohrer on the potential of food fortification
Micronutrient deficiency is one of the most common public health problems in developing countries, accounting for about 10 percent of the global health burden. But because many people lack access to naturally occurring nutrients, food fortification can offer numerous benefits. In this Q&A with Ashoka Changemakers, Rebecca Spohrer of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition discusses this approach.
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Debunking the Myths behind Food Fortification: A multi-strategy approach to creating a “Nutrients for All” world
Over 2 billion people today suffer from some form of micronutrient malnutrition – a leading cause of several life-threatening human development consequences. While there are multiple interventions that help prevent micronutrient deficiencies, food fortification is universally recognized as one of the most cost-effective. This post explores some of the misconceptions around the practice.
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Outsourcing for Good: The current state of Impact Sourcing and how we can accelerate it
ImpactHub.org is the first website to list Impact Sourcing market players (service providers, countries, and advocates) in one place, and our directories are growing. Historically, industries in the BPO sphere have relied upon online marketplaces to locate service providers and third-party information resources, such as blogs, to help purchasers react to changing landscapes and verify the credibility of these market players.
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Connected: Unleashing Ugandan Farmers’ Potential Through Mobile Phones
A powerful, new mobile platform designed for smallholder farmers that combines agriculture information and financial services to help them harvest bigger profits is going live in Uganda. Modeled on the cloud-based AgriLife, the new platform will be accessible via mobile phone and provide data collection and analysis about farmers’ production capability and history, while providing much-needed services to distant, rural farmers.
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Big Problems – Big Solutions: One Million CHWs and Living Goods at the Global Health & Innovation Conference
From last weekend’s Global Health & Innovation Conference: Sonia Ehrlich Sachs discusses the One Million Community Health Workers (CHW) Campaign, which aims to rapidly initiate and scale up rural CHW programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Also featured: a video of Mike Pezone discussing the Living Goods model - dubbed "the Avon Ladies of Africa."
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