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NexThought Monday: Unlocking Intrapreneurship with Language
Intrepreneurship, innovation and corporate social responsibility (along with all their nuanced pseudonyms) are labels for activities and values that are used in order to separate them from business as usual. Of course, the cost of that to business is high, since they have become something separate from the normal life of a corporation, and they shouldn’t.
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The Best of October on NB: The most-read, most-commented and ‘hidden gem’ posts of the month
After several months on hiatus, I’m glad to reprise our monthly awards for the best of the best on NextBillion for the month gone by. Thank you to all NextBillion contributors and congratulations to our monthly most-read, most-commented and hidden gem posts.
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QMágico’s co-founder talks social entrepreneurship and education in Brazil
Thiago Feijão was one of the panelists speaking at Entrepreneur Week Brazil, which took place for the first time in Rio de Janeiro last week. As the co-founder of edtech startup QMágico, he talked about social entrepreneurship and education opportunities in Brazil.
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- Latin America
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Incubating Women’s Businesses in Palestine
In recent years, business development and entrepreneurship programs surfaced across the West Bank and Gaza, and suddenly there was an influx of people trying to start their own business to escape the crushing levels of unemployment.
However, many of the programs put in place lacked follow-through. Entrepreneurs were left to sink or swim on their own. The Women’s Empowerment Programs at Tomorrow’s Youth Organization (TYO) based in Nablus, Palestine took a very different approach.- Categories
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‘If You Break It, You Fix It’ and Other Creeds of the Young Makers Among Us
The makers: These are people who see a need for something in their own lives — or the lives of their neighbors, or schoolmates, or industry peers — and instead of complaining, or buying something, they make it. They make alternative energy, and bicycles, and computers, and crafts, and food, and furniture, and GPS devices, and robots, and tools, and toys, and wearable devices, and magic.
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Weekly Roundup: Being the Change, With Humility
Earlier this month, the IFC released a report called "Being the Change: Inspiring the Next Generation of Inclusive Business Entrepreneurs Impacting the Base of the Pyramid." It’s based on interviews with 14 founders and CEOs of IFC’s inclusive business clients. These are truly inspiring stories about how BoP businesses are formed and the personalities that drove an idea to reality.
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Testing Assumptions About Women and Technology
Many at LifeSpring, including outreach workers themselves, agree that the hospital could benefit from digitally collecting information about its clients. But nobody was very excited about trying it. The reason: Most existing mobile health (mhealth) solutions are built on SMS (short message services, or simply text message) platforms, and LifeSpring was not confident about its outreach workers’ ability to use text messaging – or even about their ability to navigate and comprehend a text-based data collection system.
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DBS China launches social enterprise program
Development Bank of Singapore (China) announced the launch of a program to support the development of social enterprises in China on Wednesday.
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- Asia Pacific
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