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Mobile Phones and The Promise of Bringing the Base of the Pyramid into Networks
After having devoted my last posts to more abstract aspects of the?base of the pyramid, Jim Rosenberg, from our sister organization CGAP, kindly brought me to the ground again with an e-mail about how to connect the BoP to Internet through their mobiles.The beauty of the mobile...
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GlobaLens Offers BoP Cases, Courses and Community
The William Davidson Institute at The University of Michigan recently launched an exciting new tool for educators and others in the emerging markets and international business spaces. A remarkably transparent resource, GlobaLens offers cases, courses and community through a user-friendly...
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Guest Post: Silver Lining to the Financial Meltdown?
Guest blogger Bill Kramer is principal of The Global Challenge Network, LLC, an executive education and training company. From 2001 through mid-2007, he worked on pro-poor business strategies with WRI. Previously, Bill founded a non-profit focusing on the relationship of knowledge to economic...
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Pop!Tech: Rice Power to the People With Husk Power Systems
Chip Ransler is the co-founder of Husk Power Systems (HPS), a for-profit company that cost-effectively converts rice husks into electricity. HPS utilizes a proprietary technology to run 35-100 kilowatt mini power plants, delivering pay-for-use electricity to un-electrified villages in...
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Pop!Tech: Keeping It – Your Medicine – Real with PharmaSecure
You’re sick, so you go to the doctor.? He prescribes you drugs.? The medicine makes you better, right?? Unfortunately, that’s not always the case ? especially for the billions of people living at the base of the economic pyramid.? Taylor Thompson and Nathan Sigworth are on a...
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Web 2.0 Ventures Reaching Out to the Base of the Pyramid
As the week winds down I wanted to share a note?about a couple of interesting Web 2.0 ventures relevant to the base of the pyramid community. Two social networks have launched recently, aiming to connecting people and ideas around the role of business and entrepreneurship against poverty and...
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Pop!Tech: Brian McCarthy Builds Dream Homes for the Base of the Pyramid
Brian McCarthy wants to live in a shipping container ? seriously.? And based on what I?ve seen of his work, I would be thrilled to live in one, too.? McCarthy is the founder of PFNC, a manufacturer and provider of affordable housing. PFNC stands for Por Fin, Nuestra Casa ? a Spanish...
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Ignore the Price Tag
The initial $100 price tag of the XO Laptop from Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) created quite a furor when it was first announced three years ago. At the time, the cheapest laptops were hovering around $400 to $500.This subject has been rehashed many times in the press...
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