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Best Ideas of 2011: The Reshaping of Capitalism
As much as I can and often do criticize the Occupy Wall Street movement for its lack of focus, direction, and tangible outcomes - there is something about it that makes me extremely hopeful. Capitalism is slowly undergoing a massive transformation, a call launched by Occupy, and answered by the Social Enterprise Movement.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Best Ideas of 2011: Revolutionizing mindsets for a new Arab World
People from the Arab World showed that the impossible is possible. Citizens fought for their rights, shaping a new Arab World associated with ?opportunity? and ?change? instead of ?disenfranchisement? and ?stagnation? by people from both inside and outside of the region - and setting the ground for unleashing entrepreneurial energy!
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- Impact Assessment
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Best Ideas of 2011: In Praise of Michael Murphy
Michael Murphy is an architect who, unsatisfied with the self-directed benefits of traditional architecture and the opportunities lost in its wake, redefined what an architect is, and how great an impact a built environment can have. He has re-conceived hospital design to better heal the sick people in it, but that’s only part of the story.
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- Health Care
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- product design
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Best Ideas of 2011: All Signs Point to the Vitality of Sharing
Last year I reported on www.admittingfailure.com, a platform created by Engineers Without Borders Canada and Peace Dividend Trust for individuals to share mistakes or failures encountered in their work with the development community. Although the site hasn’t recorded a large number of failures since it went live, we need more initiatives like it.
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Best Ideas of 2011: Green Economy and Green Growth
An economy that works better for both people and the planet - it almost sounds too good to be true. But this year, the ideas of green economy and green growth became the subject of much buzz that has the potential to turn into action starting in 2012.
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- Environment
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From the ’Last Mile’ to the ’Last Centimeter’
Calls that pharmaceutical companies should make the pills and powders available at low prices are abundant. But that’s where the challenges start - and the solutions, something examined by a soon-to-be-launched Endeva report, "Bringing Medicines to Low-income Markets."
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- Health Care
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A Corporation’s Role in Building Local Communities – A response to Acumen Fund Lesson #4
Over the past ten years, Acumen Fund has refined its approach for investing in market-based solutions to uplift the poor. In Acumen’s 10 lessons from the past decade, lesson #4 emphasizes the significance of local solutions driven by strong leadership to solve poverty in their communities. Here’s how some corporations have embodied this lesson.
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- Impact Assessment
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Dispelling the Top Five Mobile Money Myths
I like talking about how to build mobile money networks, how people use it, what additional functionality can be built on it, and how it might give people more opportunities to improve their lives. But I often find myself side-tracked into slaying mobile money myths. Here are five concerns that I wish people didn’t lock into quite so quickly.
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- Technology
