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Dr. Sebisaho: One Man and an Island
Having grown up vacillating between the Congo and Rwanda (and having completed his medical training in the latter), Dr. Sebisaho has obtained a pulse on the medical needs of the under-served Island of Idjwi as well as an acute understanding of the cultural and economic subtleties critical in treating its ails.
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Design for the Other 90%: Don’t Miss While It’s In DC
If you’re in Washington, there’s a couple of events you should surely not miss: the event later this week at SAIS examining SME finance in Africa, and the Design for the Other 90% Exhibition that is currently at the National Geographic Museum. I went this weekend, and it’s fantastic.
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SEED Awards 2010: Now Open
From initiatives that transform kerosene lamps into solar powered lanterns in Bangladesh, to ventures that combine biogas and water treatment in Nigeria, the SEED Awards recognize entrepreneurial ventures that generate environmental, social and economic benefits?at the local level contributing to sustainable development.
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Hot Opportunities – Career Center Roundup
There have been a slew of exciting job postings in the past couple weeks with organizations working literally around the world, so we wanted to take a minute out of our regular blog schedule to highlight a few:
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Interested in Financing Innovations for African SMEs?
If you are in Washington DC and have an interest in innovations that can spur development through enterprise in Africa, read the following invitation from our friends at DiasporaCamp, and save the date for July 24 at the SAIS campus in town.
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Bottom Up Scaling: What is the Role of the Assets of the Poor?
Guest Writer Piera Waibel writes about her PhD dissertation on Base of the Pyramid business models, and calls interested companies to participate in a survey.
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Danone’s Social Innovation Lab: The Business-Social Congruence
I was part of Danone’s annual Social Innovation Lab (SIL) last week in Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris. SIL gathered over executives from around the world to learn about social business projects fostered by various company business units, inspire new ones and brainstorm on transversal issues to accelerate social innovation.
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Introducing Ashoka to NextBillion.net
I’m glad to introduce Ashoka as new Associate Partner for NextBillion.net. I have found the Ashoka network an amazing source of market intelligence, practical insights and valuable connections. I hope this new partnership between Ashoka and NextBillion will make similar intelligence and insights available and useful to the readers of this site.
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