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Social Capital Markets 2009: Disruptive Innovation Is not Just the Technology
Kevin Jones brought together an interesting group of speakers to the Disruptive Innovation panel on the first day of SOCAP 09 -- people who at first glance, would have a hard time finding common themes between them: Sangeeta Chowdhry from Acumen Fund, Sally Madsen from IDEO, Lucky Gunasekara from Frontline SMS and Mark Beckford from Ncomputing...
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Social Capital Markets 2009: Investing at the Intersection of Public Good & Market Discipline
How can a blend of capital and partnerships help address a market failure? During the session on "Investing at the Intersection of Public Good & Market Discipline: The Case of Agricultural Finance," a diverse set of panelists came together to explain the case of agricultural finance and Root Capital’s approach.
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Social Capital Markets 2009: Opening Session Examins the Role of Government
What is the role of the government? How can public resources leverage the replication of successful social innovations driven by various sectors? This is the theme of the opening session at SOCAP 09, where Sonal Shah participated as keynote speaker.
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Back in San Francisco: Social Capital Markets Conference 2009
Rob and I are excited to be back in San Francisco covering this year’s version of the Social Capital Markets Conference. In an effort to bring you a timely coverage of more than 20 BoP-focused sessions, we will be working with a team of 13 talented Guest Bloggers.
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BoP Narrative Essay Competition Announced
The 2009 BoP Narrative Competition has been created to help identify cutting-edge experiences of business innovation in underserved or marginalized communities. Winning submissions must clearly articulate a business challenge that an organization working in low-income communities is striving to overcome...
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The GSBI Video Blog, Part 5: Nik Kafka, from Teach a Man to Fish
Nik Kafka envisions revolutionizing rural education through the model promoted by his organization, Teach a Man to Fish. It incorporates school businesses as means to both teach critical productive skills to students and also produce income for schools to become self-sustaining.
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Platforms and Stuff
If you have not read the three recent and related posts by Francisco Mejia and Manuel Bueno please do. This post by me actually tries to add to the brain food they have supplied (thanks guys) but more likely just makes a muddle of their clear thinking.
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The GSBI Video Blog, Part 4: Manoj Sinha from Bihar, India
You’ve seen Manoj before in the pages of NextBillion.net. He’s co-founder and President of Husk Power Systems in India. Despite being fresh out of business school and Husk’s recent success in te fundraising circuit, he accepted the invitation to join the 2009 class of GSBI and has been able to squeeze a lot from the opportunity.
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