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Paul Braund Interview: The Business of Technology and Development
Paul Braund is Co-Founder of RIOS Institute (Research and Innovation for Organizations and Societies Institute) in Berkeley and Silicon Valley, California. He has worked as an architect and award-winning industrial designer and has developed numerous patents. He has spent 20 years working in...
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Wireless Mesh as a Transforming Tool
Acumen Fund’s Eric Cantor reports on the recent AirJaldi Summit and points to the revolutionary potential of wireless mesh networks to empower communities. Our own work on a new model for rural connectivity points in the same direction. WiFi mesh can be deployed easily, without...
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The Economics of Remittances
Over at Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen has written a long and worthwhile piece on the economics of remittances. This is must-read stuff for any of us who have been following the recent debates in the press (and on this site) about remittances and development. The comments are already flying...
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Zambia Journal: No Risk, No Reward
Guest blogger Brian McBrearity will be reporting from time to time about his experiences working in Zambia on SME and financial services development. His Zambia Journal posts will appear about once a week here on NextBillion.net. This is the third in the series; read his previous posts here...
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Remittances in Development Online Discussion
As you probably know, we’ve been following the recent flurry of news stories about remittances for development quite closely.? NextBillion staff writer and DTE deputy director Bill Kramer has written a series of blog posts outlining what he feels is being done well and what’s been done...
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Welcome, WSJ – A Next Billion Retrospective
As a site dedicated for the past year and a half to the “next billion” and the business strategies that can empower them as micro-consumers and micro-producers, its good to see the Wall Street Journal using that headline in a mainstream business story about tech firms and their...
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Tech Firms See Next Billion Users, Customers
Friday’s Wall Street Journal featured a front-section story, Tech Firms Woo Next Billion Users (subscription required), describing the aggressive BOP strategies of tech firms Intel and Microsoft. In it, we learn that Microsoft is rolling out 50,000 entrepreneur-run computer kiosks...
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There’s a Right Way and a Wrong Way – China in Africa
Elizabeth Economy and Karen Monaghan write in the International Herald Tribune (The perils of Beijing’s Africa strategy) that China is quickly creating blowback in Africa despite its purportedly “hands off politics” approach.? You would be hard-pressed to design a more anti-BOP...
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