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Weekly Roundup: Nokia Releases New Phones, Nobody Sleeps Overnight on 5th Avenue to Get Them
In the past two weeks, Nokia announced a new line of inexpensive phones, expansion of its Life Tools service from India to Indonesia, and the upcoming rollout of Nokia Money. The development community should be treating its product releases more like the wealthy public treats the release of a new iPhone.
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Net Impact 2009 Kicks Off at Cornell University
Last year, while blogging from the Penn campus that hosted the 2008 edition, I alluded to 2,400 reasons to be optimistic... I hear that this year there are more reasons, with close to 2,500 attendees expected here at in Ithaca for the Net Impact 2009 Conference.
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WDI to Host Impact Assessment Workshop
Metrics, impact assessment and impact investing are popular and important topics in development right now. Much of the work in this area has been done ad hoc, though that is beginning to change with the advent of the Global Impact Investing Network and the Impact Reporting and Investment Standards. An interesting workshop will take it forward...
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It’s the End of the Phone as We Know It
If you’ve seen it all or expect this post to be about smart phones and non-phone applications, think again. Food for thought today is Nigel Waller’s Movirtu, which may well convince you that the end of the phone as we know it is getting close.
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Not a Formality: The Productivity of Capital
In a previous post, I described why the BoP can’t yet mobilize the $10 trillion of assets they already own. If they ever get the chance to do so, alongside other fresh and creative channels for mobilizing capital, the productivity of capital comes to mind as the next challenge for growing BoP businesses. Here’s a thought experiment to illustrate...
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NYU: Measuring Impact, Valuing Investment
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Sixth Annual NYU Conference of Social Entrepreneurs here in New York. The day-long conference brought practitioners together with academics for a day-long discourse on measuring impact and valuing (social) investment.
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New Social Venture Creation Course at the University of Michigan
The new UofM Social Venture Creation Course seeks to be an innovative, action-based learning laboratory that brings students (both undergrads and grads) across disciplines to work on solving society?s challenges ? together.
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Weekly Round-Up: Financial Services Friday
Here are stories that caught my eye this week, an event coming up in San Francisco, and an opportunity for bloggers writing at the intersection of technology and poverty.
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