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SoCAP09: 358 More Reasons to Attend
SOCAP09 is less than 4 weeks away. Will you be there? Francisco will. I will. Brian Trelstad will. So will Alvaro Rodriguez...and many more. Do you need reasons to come? How about these three reasons why you need to be there?Need more? Well, how about these 358 MORE reasons!?
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The Next: 2010 Case Writing Competition
The William Davidson Institute (WDI) has partnered with Acumen Fund and the World Resources Institute (WRI) to launch The Next: 2010 Case Writing Competition on NextBillion.net. The purpose of this competition is to engage students in writing high-impact case studies with their professors to help further the overall base of the pyramid movement.
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Who’s Going to SOCAP 09? Alvaro Rodriguez from IGNIA Is
4 Weeks! That’s all that is left fot SOCAP ’09 to kick off. Like last year, NextBillion.net will be covering the conference with a team of Guest Bloggers. We’ll also run a series of short interviews to give you a sense of who will be there and the character of the conversations that will take place at the venue. Here’s Part 1 of our SOCAP Preview.
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Can Members of the Diaspora Work Effectively at the Base of the Pyramid?
Three years ago I took part in my first Nollywood marathon. It was a bit of a reunion actually; one of my friends was in town from Nigeria while I was visiting another friend in DC. One of the movies, called Dangerous Twins, struck a chord. The story is about two businessmen; one lives in the UK and the other in Nigeria.
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CGAP?s Microfinance Photography Contest Now Open
CGAP is now accepting entries to their Microfinance Photography Contest. Deadline is on August 14th!
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An Open Letter to the Development Posse: Lighten Up Already!
The Development Posse needs to lighten up. Nothing works as planned. Thinking it should leads to whining, drama and trying to make water run uphill. When stuff inevitably happens, make the course correction and acknowledge it. Our job is to be less sincere, less certain, more agnostic and do those few things that eliminate barriers to choice.
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A Lesson Learned
In this article, I discuss the importance of disruptive business models, using the success of the Amazon Kindle as a disruptive innovation and business model to the publishing world. Unfortunately, what once could have been a device that could have had a significant impact to the BoP, is now another gadget for the well-to-do.
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Notes From the Field: The Future of Healthcare Part II
Last week, I stood in a room in India where perhaps 15 women in clean-room garb were assembling point-of-use rapid diagnostic kits. These were pregnancy tests, but the company makes similar diagnostic kits for malaria, dengue, hepatitis, HIV, glucose levels, etc.; more than 30 in all. But that’s only part of the story.
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