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Who’s Going to SOCAP 09? Alvaro Rodriguez from IGNIA Is
4 Weeks! That’s all that is left fot SOCAP ’09 to kick off. Like last year, NextBillion.net will be covering the conference with a team of Guest Bloggers. We’ll also run a series of short interviews to give you a sense of who will be there and the character of the conversations that will take place at the venue. Here’s Part 1 of our SOCAP Preview.
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Can Members of the Diaspora Work Effectively at the Base of the Pyramid?
Three years ago I took part in my first Nollywood marathon. It was a bit of a reunion actually; one of my friends was in town from Nigeria while I was visiting another friend in DC. One of the movies, called Dangerous Twins, struck a chord. The story is about two businessmen; one lives in the UK and the other in Nigeria.
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CGAP?s Microfinance Photography Contest Now Open
CGAP is now accepting entries to their Microfinance Photography Contest. Deadline is on August 14th!
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An Open Letter to the Development Posse: Lighten Up Already!
The Development Posse needs to lighten up. Nothing works as planned. Thinking it should leads to whining, drama and trying to make water run uphill. When stuff inevitably happens, make the course correction and acknowledge it. Our job is to be less sincere, less certain, more agnostic and do those few things that eliminate barriers to choice.
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Low-cost housing in Mumbai: A market at the base of the pyramid?
Estimates suggest that India has a shortfall of more than 25 million low-cost or affordable houses. The result is sprawling slums that ring some of the country’s largest cities and a bewildering maze of tenement buildings in which three-generations-under-one-roof-families jostle for space and privacy in spaces of 150 square feet and above. As Supriya Menon said recently, they say it is easy to find everything in Mumbai except for a house ( BBC , 15 June). Just lik...
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A Lesson Learned
In this article, I discuss the importance of disruptive business models, using the success of the Amazon Kindle as a disruptive innovation and business model to the publishing world. Unfortunately, what once could have been a device that could have had a significant impact to the BoP, is now another gadget for the well-to-do.
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Notes From the Field: The Future of Healthcare Part II
Last week, I stood in a room in India where perhaps 15 women in clean-room garb were assembling point-of-use rapid diagnostic kits. These were pregnancy tests, but the company makes similar diagnostic kits for malaria, dengue, hepatitis, HIV, glucose levels, etc.; more than 30 in all. But that’s only part of the story.
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Unlocking the Creative Potential of the “Next Billion”: Idea Competitions at the Base of the Pyramid
What are concrete methods to make co-creation / innovation from the bottom-up happen? The recent popularity of competitions seems to offer an interesting method. Interesting, fun and popular as they are, the case still seems to be that they do not capture much attention when the challenge at hand requires them to take place at the BoP.
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