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Babajob: Monster.com Meets Facebook Meets BoP
From The Times of India:When Bradley Montgomery relocated to Bangalore from California, his primary concern as a single parent was to hire a domestic hand not just to cook and clean, but also to tend to his son Aaron (11). His mother chanced upon babajob.com and within days, Montgomery hired...
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Pop!Tech’s Net Impact (Pun Intended)
What’s the net impact of Pop!Tech?? I’ve been thinking about my time in Camden, Maine a lot lately - never more so than while I attended the 2007 Net Impact conference this past week in Nashville (see, pun very much intended.)? In all seriousness however, my trip to Tennessee prompted...
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Ericsson’s Plan: Rural Connectivity for the Millennium Villages
I recently came across an article on CNNMoney.com about world-leading supplier of telecommunications Ericsson?s plan to provide mobile phones and internet connectivity to the Millennium Villages. It caught my attention, since it relates to a flurry of recent activity on NextBillion. We?ve...
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Five Questions For the Guru of CGAP’s Forays into Blogging
CGAP recently launched a new blog on technology and microfinance, led by Communications Officer Jim Rosenberg. Jim has a preternaturally polite nature and speaks with a delicate inflection that almost belies some of the intense experiences of his journalistic background (covering the wreckage...
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StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation: Apply Now
Social entrepreneurship is more than a buzzword - it is becoming an industry in and of itself. And one of the best niches in this new industry is occupied by a group I know and respect, StartingBloc. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization, StartingBloc runs an Institute for Social Innovation and a...
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Corn and Crop Waste
"All Biofuels Aren’t Created Equal” noted Tom Schueneman over at Triple Pundit yesterday. A solid point that brings some perspective to the ongoing discussion over the viability of biofuels. There is a significant difference between the moral issues raised by, say, a huge...
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Doing Business With the World – WBCSD Report
For those of us who spend most of our waking hours thinking about BOP news and activities, who already know the buzz words, the acronyms, and the fact that microcredit is only the tip of the iceberg? well, sometimes we lose sight of one of the most important audiences: the business and...
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Jobs: Manager, Makeda Fund
NextBillion ally and Timbuktu Chronicles author Emeka Okafor sent me a note today, asking me to post the attached job description.? Emeka - a Nigerian ex-pat - is working with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the Small Enterprise Assistance Fund to launch a new private equity fund based in Lagos called...
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