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NexThought Monday: Marking a Shift at the BOP World Convention
Two years ago, in Singapore, the BOP World Convention & Expo explored cross-sector partnerships and hybrid models as potential catalysts. This year, the convention will focus on inclusive economies, what can drive them, and their implications for the BoP.
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- Education, Social Enterprise, Technology
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The Podcast: When Life Hits You In the Head With a Brick …
Max Chinnah, CEO and co-founder of Terraoak Inc., is from Nigeria, where his grandmother died from complications related to breathing air polluted by cookstoves. He's convinced his Genesys Cooker can improve the lives of millions around the world.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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With Few Resources, Cuba’s Resourceful Entrepreneurs Find a Way
There are some 500,000 entrepreneurs today in Cuba, up from 150,000 in 2010. President Raúl Castro has called the huge state sector “bloated” and has declared private business a key part of Cuba’s new economic model. In May, the communist government passed legislation allowing small businesses to become legal entities, thus making the private sector official. Previously, entrepreneurs were classified as “self-employed.” But when we visited there in May we found that, despite resource constraints, entrepreneurship is booming in Cuba.
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- Social Enterprise
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(Reinvented) Weekly Roundup: Cashless Betting, Good Pod, Beautiful Resolve
NextBillion is changing the format of our Weekly Roundup. Rather than more lengthy, editor-written analysis of weekly events, on Fridays we’ll curate a number of news articles, announcements, tweets, videos and other media that captured our attention over the course of the week.
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- Social Enterprise
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5 Trends Accelerating the Acceptance of STEM Professionals in Sustainable Development
STEM innovation has led to many of the biggest social impacts in recent human history: chlorinated drinking water, oral re-hydration therapy, solar energy, and many more that we often overlook or underestimate. Fortunately, as STEM professionals forge their way in the social innovation space, there are five major trends accelerating their acceptance as sustainable development practitioners.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Upending Conventional Wisdom with Bottom-Up Innovation
To accelerate the democratization of affordable and robust internet access, Microsoft this week announced 12 new partnerships with social enterprises. Paul Garnett, Director of Affordable Access Initiatives at Microsoft, writes that the partnerships will support market-based innovation through seed grants, a network of peers, mentors and resources, and commercial partnerships, in addition to engaging the communities in which they work.
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- Social Enterprise, Technology
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Feeding the Future of Aquaculture – One Insect at a Time
Kenya’s aquaculture industry is booming, growing at 10 percent a year. But overfishing and a lack of sustainable fish feed is holding back industry growth and profits for farmers. For Kulisha, a social enterprise founded by university students in business and environmental science, the solution is a little black fly.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Social Enterprise
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The Secret Sauce in Shared Value, Lean Startup, Behavioral Economics and Social Enterprise
As an enthusiast for new solutions to old problems I wonder: Are you as excited as I am by relatively recent developments of social enterprises, shared value, behavioral economics and/or lean startups for social change? Or do you skeptically forecast which of these business approaches might just be fads?
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- Social Enterprise
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