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Pop!Tech Announces 2009 Social Innovation Fellows
As if on queue - and on the heels of SoCap09 - Pop!Tech, a leading ideas summit and social innovation network, today announces its 2009 class of Social Innovation Fellows. This will be the second class of Fellows - last year the cohort included innovators ranging from Mobile Metrix to Pharmasecure to Por Fin, Nuestra Casa to Ushahidi to...
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Social Capital Markets 09: Measuring Life at the Base of the Pyramid
What is life like at the base of the economic pyramid? How can social enterprises reach the people of the BoP at a scale that can generate widespread improvement in peoples’ lives? Last Wednesday, a panel entitled "Measuring Life at the Base of the Pyramid: Scale and Leverage for the $2 a Day Population, addressed these questions.
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Social Capital Markets 09: Towards Triple Impact
While SoCap involves a lot of investment lingo and a room full of venture funds and other players with large amounts of capital, a breakout session on "Towards Triple Impact: Sustainable Ventures in Developing Countries" sought to bring together a panel of developing country entrepreneurs.
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Social Capital Markets 09: Metastasizing Metrics
It was clear statistics, data, and metrics - in this context to measure, report, and track outputs and eventually outcomes of our work - were indeed sexy topics throughout the first two days of SoCap. Believe it. Nearly every panel in some way brought up the need to increase transparency and credibility...
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Social Capital Markets 09: Innovation in Africa
We often hear about the challenges facing Africa, but seldom do we hear about the innovation and creativity emerging throughout the continent. In an afternoon session entitled "Identifying Opportunities for Innovation in Africa", the panelists had a passionate and revealing discussion around the quantity of underexposed talent in Africa.
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Social Capital Markets 09: Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
Amidst the panels, deals and offline conversations of SoCap09, an interesting stat emerged: the 800+ participants represent some 32 countries, an increase from last year’s international participation. The assumption (or at least my inference) is that the language of entrepreneurship is universal, extending to social entrepreneurship as well.
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Social Capital Markets 09: The Social Capital Spectrum
How do a range of innovative investment models work, and work together, to tackle core issues that perpetuate poverty? This theme is at the heart of SOCAP 09 and the plenary "Showcasing the Social Capital Spectrum" provided insights from leading organizations exemplifying differing approaches.
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Social Capital Markets 09: Funding High Impact Ventures
One overarching theme of SOCAP09 has been the question: how can capital be appropriately allocated to the right people in the right format at the right time? Tuesday’s breakout session, Funding High Impact Ventures in Developing Markets, moderated by Pawan Mehra (founder of Intellecap) took a stab at answering this question.
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