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Institute for sustainable enterprise takes off
An innovative concept to promote green technology and support entrepreneurs to build a sustainable business on this much needed space has taken shape in Bangalore. Indian Institute for Sustainable Enterprise (IISE), promoted by some well known global and Indian personalities has kicked off its operations and is set to launch its post-graduate certificate programme in sustainable enterprise shortly.
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- Environment, Technology
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- South Asia
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Innovation in Africa: Upwardly mobile
VISITORS to Kenya’s capital are often horrified by the homicidal minibuses called matatu. They swerve around potholes, seldom signal and use their iffy brakes only at the last second. They are therefore an ideal subject for a video game, which is why Planet Rackus, a Nairobi start-up, released “Ma3Racer” last year. Each player uses his mobile phone to steer a matatu down the street. The (unrealistic) goal is to avoid pedestrians. Within a month, a quarter of a million people in 169 countries had downloaded the game.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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An App For Boosting Social Enterprise Retailers
Here’s a good idea: Boosting social enterprise through a useful app. Specifically, one that helps like-minded customers find triple bottom line retailers in their area. Consumers who want to patronize such enterprises get easy access to information they probably wouldn’t know about otherwise. And businesses have an effective way to market their wares.
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Start-ups like InVenture flourish with technology services for micro finance firms
BANGALORE: A new wave of start-up companies is building technology enabled services aimed at bridging the communication gap between borrowers and lenders in the embattled microfinance industry.
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- South Asia
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Rural banks partner with telcos to boost microfinance
Rural banks will soon have their own set of “killer apps” to better compete with bigger banks and, more importantly, expand their microfinance services in the Philippines.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Wanted: World Changing Inventors (At Least One Reference Required): The $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation, is a call to action
Are you or someone you know an inventor who is developing technological inventions to address challenges in developing countries? Perhaps someone like Ashok Gadgil, whose fuel efficient cook stove, is saving women’s lives in Darfur? Then we want to honor them with the 2013 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation.
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Can Better Data Sharing Help Solve Pakistan’s Education Emergency?: Developyst’s platform is for NGOs, policy makers and educators to make better decisions
Developyst is Pakistan’s first social enterprise in education with a vision to champion data-driven development. The Developyst platform, which will be launched in 2013, seeks to be a space for education stakeholders to grow and develop their network by providing access to data in interactive and visually diverse ways.
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- Education, Technology
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With $2M from Eric Schmidt, biNu brings smartphone apps to dumb phones
Eric Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures is leading a $2 million Series A round in biNu, an Australian startup that enables feature phones to run cloud-based smartphone apps such as Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia and Google. BiNu highlights the opportunity in developing markets where smartphone penetration is low.
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- Technology