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With Biochar Stoves, Inyenyeri is a Business Intent on Catching Fire
Eric Reynolds, founder of camping gear giant Marmot and Gore-Tex pioneer, has never shied from big ideas. His latest mission? Making Rwanda the world’s first "carbon-negative" country. His method? A biochar cookstove, a for-profit energy company, and 4 years of serious planning. After spending a few days with him, he may just be onto something big.
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New Ideas for Saving the Lives of Women, Children
From UN Innovation Working Group, a new report on mHealth programs carries an emphasis on viable and scalable business models to improve the way healthcare is delivered to women and children. Indeed, many believe mobile ICT platforms are potential game-changers in delivering health information and services to combat maternal and child mortality.
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Chronicles of Grassroots Creativity and Innovation: Four Questions for Makeshift?s Steve Daniels
I recently had a chance to catch up with Steve Daniels, founder of the Better World by Design Conference and author of the fascinating Making Do. I’m sure you’ll find Makeshift, is a quarterly magazine and multimedia website about grassroots creativity and invention around the world, as intriguing as I did.
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NextThought Monday: Creative Ways to Boost Youth Entrepreneurship
The risks of investing in young entrepreneurs are well known: inexperienced managers, murky business plans, overly optimistic views of the market, etc., etc. Youth Business International (YBI) recently issued Closing the Gap, a report that pulled together several case studies showing how the finance gap can be bridged for young entrepreneurs.
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Friday Roundup – 8-16-11: An MD, Mathematician Leads Gates? Health Initiative
The Gates Foundation this week announced it would tap Dr. Trevor Mundel, the global head of development at Novartis AG, to lead the Gates Global Health Program. Mundel’s charged with finding the most effective (and cost effective) drugs, vaccines and medical devices for the developing world. Clearly he’s someone who understands how to manage scale.
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CMU’s New Campus in Rwanda, Aims to Expand ICT Knowledge, Worker Skills Across Africa
Today in Pittsburgh, the president of Carnegie Mellon University and the president of Rwanda will announce a major partnership between CMU and the Rwandan government to offer graduate ICT degrees. While one Center of Excellence can’t serve the entire continent, it can serve as model - just as ICT hubs inspired successful Silicon Valley startups.
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Bringing Research, Action Together in Pursuit of New BoP Solutions
"What is the smallest change we can make to obtain the largest impact?" asked Sami Nerenberg, of Design for America during SOCAP11 Design for Social Innovation Track. Nerenberg was among three organizations sharing methodologies and lessons on bringing volumes of data into actionable and impactful BoP design.
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ViewChange Video of the Week: In Fiji, Women-Powered Chutney Business Finances Development
In the rural, cane-growing region of Fiji, a new enterprise is revolutionizing the lives of the local community by providing an income for women who previously relied on their husbands, helping them scale up production and save money, and financing the country’s only senior citizens center.
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