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Africa Election Watch 2011: Benin Growing Pains for a Young Democracy
A day after the election in volatile Niger (where Seini Oumarou has emerged the winner) came the presidential election in one of the "star" democracies on the African continent. On March 13, the West African nation Benin went to the polls to continue a democracy born of dictatorship two decades ago. As the votes are counted, a look at the stakes.
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MBA Immersion in Rwanda, Building Sustainable Enterprises
It?s one thing to study a country such as Rwanda from afar; quite another thing to study it from the inside, as 22 MBA students from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School did during a recent three-week project. Working from Kigali, students focused on medical supply, healthcare patient processing, energy and water/sanitation projects.
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NexThought Monday: It?s a Small World by Design- Let?s Make it a Healthy One
The fulcrum of design, both of technology and program innovations, was an ongoing theme throughout our Advancing Healthcare With the Base of the Pyramid series. We wanted to re-publish these 14-post series in a way that was easily readable and sharable. So, we?re posting the series in a Scribd presentation.
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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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