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  • Manuel Bueno

    New Study Details Problems and Prospects for Mobile Phone Banking

    By all measures, this has been a pretty long post to finalize.In January, Ana?s post about the mobile phone banking conference at Chemonics aroused a series of insightful comments. Al Hammond then weighed in with a post of his own (he also recently wrote about Biometric Security for Mobile...

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  • Abigail Keene-Babcock

    Agora Partnerships: Building Talent With Bamboo

    Over the last few months, there?s been plenty of discussion about the growing importance of building talent in the area of BoP business/social enterprise. Moses Lee has mentioned talent often ? in one recent post, he described how a BoP business scheme failed when a group of experienced...

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  • Rob Katz

    Don’t Wait for the Rain: Social Marketing for KickStart’s MoneyMaker

    NextBillion ally Cat Laine - editor of the excellent AIDG blog - posted a fantastic social marketing video earlier this week that I just had the chance to look at today. Entitled Don’t Wait for the Rain, the video features Maasai rap artist Mr. Ebbo alongside actors portraying the...

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  • Grace Augustine

    StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation: NYC 2008

    We are all looking for opportunities to develop our ability to address poverty and underserved markets with business solutions. One forum that brings together students and young professionals to connect around these ideas is StartingBloc. I was encouraged to apply to StartingBloc through...

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  • Rob Katz

    BoP Protocol Releases 2nd Edition

    What does a next-generation BoP strategy look like?? How do large companies work effectively (and profitably) with the BoP?? What have we learned in the years since Stuart Hart and C.K. Prahalad published their s+b article, Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid?If you’re looking for...

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  • Al Hammond

    New Report: How to Make Mobile Phone Banking Secure

    Mobile phone banking is already fully commercial in the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya. It’s about to happen in perhaps a dozen additional countries. With more than 1.5 billion mobile phones deployed in the developing world, the potential market is large and growing. The need is...

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  • Derek Newberry

    Introducing Staff Writer Francisco Noguera

    The New Ventures team is proud to welcome Francisco Noguera on board as the latest addition to our pool of talented NextBillion.net Staff Writers. Francisco, a native of Colombia comes to NextBillion.net with a deep understanding of issues around implementation of BoP initiatives. In...

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  • Derek Newberry

    Mapping Clean Energy Opportunities for the BoP

    So what does it take to supply millions of households in emerging economies with clean renewable energy? We often talk about finance, new models, willing entrepreneurs. Kenneth Westrick, CEO of energy consulting group 3Tier says it’s information.Really? Hard to believe this at a time...

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