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In Telemedicine, Often Old Habits Prove Bigger Challenge Than Technology Hurdles
In the rural town of Juvvalapalem, most residents seek the local Rural Medical Practitioners (also known as quacks) when they need medical treatment. This is just one of the challenges we’re dealing with at GloCare, an initiative to provide market-driven quality healthcare solutions to underserved populations through telemedicine.
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- Health Care, Technology, Telecommunications
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Investing in Social Enterprise: Lessons from the 2012 Sankalp Summit
Imagine you have devoted the last three years of your life to coming up with a new innovative enterprise to meet the needs of the poor. You came up with the idea, worked tirelessly to prove the concept and put together the best team that you could find. Now imagine that you have 3 minutes to pitch years’ of work to a panel of impact investors who could help you take your business to the next level. This is exactly what a group of four budding social enterprises had to do at the Fourth Annual Sankalp Impact Investing Summit
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Perspective: Poverty, Health And Forced Eviction In The Slums Of Bangladesh
On April 4, one of the largest forceful slum evictions in Bangladesh’s history took place in Dhaka’s Korail bustee. Households, schools and shops within twenty meters of the road were bulldozed, with approximately 3,500 individuals affected.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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Tackling the Challenges of Urban Sanitation: A Social Enterprise Model
A micro franchise initiative founded by SC Johnson in Nairobi aims to improve levels of sanitation in low-income communities.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Micro-health Insurance Scheme for Poor on Test
A microfinance institution has started piloting a micro-health insurance scheme as an 'alternative' mode of health financing for the Bangladeshi poor to help them overcome the cruel cycle of poverty and illness.
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- Health Care
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Business Lessons From A Baby Elephant
Vijay Govindarajan is the co-author, with Chris Trimble, of Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere, which hits bookshelves on April 10. A professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University, Govindarajan chatted with Fast Company about $2,000 heart surgery, elephant prostheses, and the need for American businesses to, in essence, study abroad.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Infographic: 2.6 Billion People Don’t Have A Safe Way To Poop
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation doesn’t mince words (or pictures) when it comes to feces.
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Unleashing Innovation: The Story Behind the Low-Cost Incubator ‘Embrace’
As some of the world’s leading social innovators come together this week at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, Link TV’s ViewChange project is looking at some of the most exciting social innovations taking place around the world. Guest Writer Linus Liang, COO of Embrace, shares the story on the low-cost incubator.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise, Technology
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