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NextBillion Welcomes Staff Writer Saurabh Lall
The NextBillion.net team is happy to announce the latest addition to the group of Staff Writers: Saurabh Lall. Saurabh works for WRI based out of Washington DC. He is the Program Coordinator/Research Assistant for the Accelerating Clean Energy Markets, Clean Energy for the Base of the Pyramid, New Ventures India and New Ventures Indonesia projects.
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Meet the Cohort of TED India Fellows
ThinkChangeIndia pointed my attention to the announcement of TED’s India Fellows. We wrote about the Fellowship earlier this year and are thrilled to see a list full of friends and organizations that have been part of NextBillion in one way or another.
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Africa Social Enterprise Forum 2009
As many of you know, today is the 2009 Africa Social Enterprise Forum in New York City, organized by Co-Chairs JerryAnne Heath and Magogodi Makhene. ASEC boldly confronts the notion that all the best thinking (and doing) in social enterprise comes from the West, and I applaud the organizers for making this distinction.
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Here’s Some Reading for the Weekend
I’m finally back home. While I enjoy almost every aspect of being on the go, traveling also implies an almost inevitable distraction from routines and habits that I cherish, many of which relate to reading. My mailbox was packed with good stuff and I’m currently working on a few pieces I thought I’d share for you to catch in the coming weekend.
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Changemakers Announces New Competition: Innovations for Improved Nutrition
Our friends at Changemakers point our attention to a recently launched competition that is very closely linked to the role of enterprise in development. Run in alliance with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), the competition is open to innovators with new ideas to expand and improve nutrition.
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E+Co’s Gold Standard – Lessons Learned?
E+Co, a mission-driven clean energy investor in developing countries, is working to implement strategies that enable Wall Street investors to put capital to work in developing countries through the carbon markets. To that end, they just announced that E+Co has successfully registered two energy efficient cookstove projects with the Gold Standard...
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Reconciling Social Motives and Profitable Means
Reconciling social motives with profitable means of achieving them is a fundamental, underlying tension - a constructive one, I think - in the development through enterprise space. We’re far short of consensus, but more and more people seem to buy the "why" and the "whether." What we’re discussing is increasingly the "how." This was reflected...
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BoP Conference Updates – A Busy Fall Ahead
For those interested in the base of the pyramid (BoP) space, it will be a busy fall as many conferences and events are upcoming. I’ve just updated the Take Action page here at NextBillion, but in case you are not in the habit of checking it regularly, here’s a rundown of the events coming up, along with some commentary.
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