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Tech Awards 2008: Silicon Valley Turns to Technologies that Benefit the World’s Poorest Citizens
I had the opportunity to attend the Tech Museum Awards ceremony last week in San Jose, California. ?What’s interesting about this annual event is not just the social entrepreneurs and their sometimes quite remarkable innovations, but also the way Silicon Valley turns out to honor them and,...
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Net Impact: Unreasonable People and The Role of Entrepreneurs in Shaping Tomorrow’s Markets
Last Saturday morning was gray, rainy and windy in Philadelphia, but it didn’t keep the Net Impact conference from building momentum. I began the day attending a session led by the Base of the Pyramid Protocol team. It was interesting to get a closer feel of this tool; a detailed wrap up of...
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Net Impact: 2,400 Reasons to Be Optimistic
It has been a fascinating morning, not without a funny feeling of nostalgia. A year ago I was logging in to read about the happenings at the Net Impact conference during my breaks writing essays and completing business school applications. In all of them, I tried to make sure to state my...
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Guest Post: The Role of Design in Social Entrepreneurship
Guest blogger Sami Nerenberg is an adjunct faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design, teaching the advanced studio Design for Social Entrepreneurship. She also is a member of the Grain collaborative and previously worked for the nonprofits, Design that Matters and Greenblue.Co-contributors...
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A Preliminary Benchmark for Community Scale Water Treatment
Today I am posting the results of a unique partnership and a novel experiment in furthering social entrepreneurship, the fruits of an effort launched on this site a year ago. The partners were Santa Clara University’s Global Social Benefit Incubator and World Resources Institute, and the...
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Two Extra Bites on The Role of Design for Social Impact
Following Jocelyn’s post and just to keep the conversation going about the role of design in the development through enterprise field, here are two recommendations for your typical Tuesday afternoon.First, please go over to Ethan Zuckerman’s blog and read why good design and innovation are...
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Guest Post: Better World by Design Conference
Guest blogger Jocelyn Wyatt works for the design firm IDEO, leading its base of the pyramid projects. Prior to joining IDEO, Jocelyn was an Acumen Fund Fellow in Kenya. She holds a MBA from Thunderbird. Jocelyn blogs at Design and Reach.She sent us the following post following her attendance...
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NextBillion at the Net Impact North America Conference: Preview
NextBillion returns this year to Net Impact’s annual conference, which this time will be held in Philadelphia at Penn’s Wharton School of Business. Titled The Sustainable Advantage: Creating Environmental and Social Value,?it will be Net Impact’s largest conference up to date with...
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