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Small is Powerful: Join the Changemakers’ Discussion: NextBillion is partnering with SAP and Ashoka to highlight big impact from small entrepreneurs
Recognizing and managing this massive challenge is at the heart of the new global competition from SAP and Ashoka Changemakers called The Power of Small: Entrepreneurs Strengthening Local Economies. This week Logan Yonavjak, with the Conservation Investment Note Program and a regular NextBillion contributor, is currating the online chat. Several of Logan’s and other NextBillion contributors’ articles will also be cross-posted on the competition blog.
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Sanergy is Breathing ‘Fresh Life’ into the Sanitation Loop
Sanergy is a Kenya-based company that builds low-cost sanitation in urban slums, benefits local entrepreneurs, and processes waste into electricity and fertilizer. Since its launch in 2011, it has sold more than 100 toilets, and is looking to expand in a partnership with Kiva.
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Accion’s Venture Lab: Open Ideas, Open for Business
Launched in April, the US $10 million seed-stage initiative is focused on for-profit enterprises with new products or business models that expand the range of high-quality financial services for people at the base of the pyramid.
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A 5 Billion Mobile Workforce
This past month, in Armenia, Kenya, Nepal, South Africa, and Vietnam, the World Bank organized hackathons bringing together over 300 mobile phone technologists and entrepreneurs. The gatherings focused on leveraging the spread of mobile phones to three-quarters of the world to connect excluded populations to the digital economy.
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How to boost adoption of mobile health care, by report
MORE doctors in developed and emerging markets have identified adoption of mobile technology in healthcare as an inevitable means to boost health care services.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The dawn of e-microfinance
It doesn’t look like Primiya Bai Rout, a vegetable cultivator in Salebhata village of Odisha, belongs in cyberspace. Yet, there she is, with a profile that nestles right next to Niharika Padia’s from New York. It is an unlikely pairing, but what has made it possible is a loan of Rs 400, given by Padia to Rout, so she can finance her vegetable business, thanks to Rangde — an online platform that enables people like Niharika to choose borrowers like Rout from a list of microloan seekers in the most remote corners of India.
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- South Asia
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Early stage investment growing in Africa tech
The rise of technology hubs over the last couple of years has spurred investment, helped by humanitarian agencies and VCs
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Another Online Hub? Here’s Why We Tried Something Different : The Business Innovation Facility and IAP database is a one-stop-shop for social entrepreneurs
A new Database of Financial and Technical Support for Inclusive Business aims to reduce the time and challenge involved. Produced by the Business Innovation Facility (BIF) and Innovations Against Poverty (IAP), it’s a step towards a ‘one-stop shop’ for IB entrepreneurs.
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- Education, Social Enterprise, Technology