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Friday Roundup ? 3/11/11: Uniting for Sight
The Global Health & Innovation Conference, presented by Unite For Sight, is a leading global health conference and social entrepreneurship conferences. The conference provides a forum for 2,200 professionals and to create and collaborate on designs, strategies, and effective solutions to improve health and development globally.
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Best of February on NextBillion – Awakening to Competition
Whether it’s understanding the nuances of an existing BoP market or transforming seemingly daunting challenges into advantages to earn a sustainable profit, last month’s most-read posts on NextBillion all focused on fresh approaches to competition. If you haven’t already read them, check out the posts that made the top five for February.
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ViewChange Video(s) of the Week: Honoring International Women’s Day
In honor of International Women?s Day, ViewChange is highlighting the many inspiring video stories about issues affecting women living in developing nations. Today we will focus on three incredible stories of enterprising women starting their own businesses or capitalizing on the opportunities by microcredit investment.
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Bringing ’Human-Centered Design’ Forward – Insights Into IDEO.org
This fall, design firm IDEOto launch IDEO.org to spread "human-centered design" by working directly with a wide spectrum of players and a diverse set of project categories to address poverty alleviation. IDEO.org leaders Jocelyn Watt and Patrice Martin, co-lead and creative director chatted with NextBillion about its mission.
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Africa Election Watch 2011: Niger
One of the biggest determinants of living standards for those at the base of the pyramid too often receives scant attention in the Western press: a presidential election. In 2011, 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa will hold presidential elections. The next presidential election in Africa will take place in Niger, on March 12.
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Friday Roundup – 3/4/11 Seeking Leaders, Words of Wisdom
DevEx is looking for a few good leaders. So too is the Skoll Foundation as well as PopTech. Meanwhile, this week has me thinking about some practical advice for leaders offered by the very knowledgeable Jonathan Lewis and the far-less knowledgeable Charlie Sheen.
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Technology to the People! Taking Telemedicine to Scale in Rural India
Long known as an IT capital, India?s health infrastructure for years lagged behind the Tiger-like force of its software industry. No more: In the past decade, thanks to growing support from government, private sector innovation, and a great leap forward in infrastructure development, ICT is transforming the way people receive health care.
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This Week’s ViewChange Video: Doing Business In Afghanistan
Rangina Hamidi, an Afghan-American woman returned to her home country, but was unsatisfied with nonprofit work. She went on to found Kandahar Treasure, which provides women with jobs creating embroidered products for domestic and international markets. The Kandahar-based business is not merely employing several women, it’s also empowering them.
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