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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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Building Enterprises, Sustaining Optimism: Revolution 2.0 in Post Mubarak-Egypt
Almost nine months after the revolution, mistrust against civil society and foreign investment remains high, while bureaucracy continues to slow the emergence of new ventures. Clearly, social entrepreneurship needs its own 2.0 revolution to overcome many obstacles in the post-Mubarak Egypt.
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PVRI: Scaling a Non-Profit Model for Eye Care
We traveled to Parvatipuram in Andhra Pradesh to witness the outreach camps and meet communities impacted by investee, Pushpagiri Vitreo Retina Institute (PVRI) first hand. Founded in 2004, PVRI’s combined business model allows for treatment fee-paying patients in addition to serving ’Below the Poverty Line’ patients.
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Sisi ni Amani: An Experiment in Marketing Peace
At the BoP, we use marketing for lots of things. We market products like shampoo sachets and fertilizers, pay-per-use toilets and private ambulances; and we even market behaviors like ’send your child to school’ and ’don’t have unprotected sex.’ We rely heavily on the power of marketing. But how far could we take it? Could we market, say, peace?
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SOCAP11: Breaking Down Barriers to People Powered Capital
"Why is it illegal for me to invest even $100 in the business of my choice?" The kick-off session on the democratization of impact investing tackled the tough questions, such as how can we channel the massive amount of capital latent in the 98 percent of people may want to invest in a venture, but who are not "accredited investors."
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SOCAP11: Gleaning Insights in Design Thinking
Design used to be about making artifacts, but now the experience is the commodity. At SOCAP11, the Design for Social Innovation track exposed us to some powerful design thinking techniques from Hot Studio and :: CRONAN ::, two firms with household name corporate and socially known clients. In design, the age of the lone rock star is long gone.
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