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New Report: How to Make Mobile Phone Banking Secure
Mobile phone banking is already fully commercial in the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya. It’s about to happen in perhaps a dozen additional countries. With more than 1.5 billion mobile phones deployed in the developing world, the potential market is large and growing. The need is...
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Introducing Staff Writer Francisco Noguera
The New Ventures team is proud to welcome Francisco Noguera on board as the latest addition to our pool of talented NextBillion.net Staff Writers. Francisco, a native of Colombia comes to NextBillion.net with a deep understanding of issues around implementation of BoP initiatives. In...
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Mapping Clean Energy Opportunities for the BoP
So what does it take to supply millions of households in emerging economies with clean renewable energy? We often talk about finance, new models, willing entrepreneurs. Kenneth Westrick, CEO of energy consulting group 3Tier says it’s information.Really? Hard to believe this at a time...
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Technology: A Key to BoP Success?
What do Aravind Eye Care, d.light design, Ekgaon Technologies, ITC’s e-Choupal, and the much awaited Tata Nano have in common? New market segments? Radically new paradigms?Technology?As the BoP discussion moves from whether-to-invest to where-to-invest, there is an increasing need to...
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Social-Impact Fellowship in Hyderabad
Deadline: April 26, 2008From the Social-Impact website and Via ThinkChange India:Social-Impact is a new international professional development program. Their goal is to accelerate growth and increase impact of social entrepreneurs? projects and/or organizations. Social-Impact?s programme...
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Job: Vice-President – Sales, India at d.light design
Position: Vice-President, SalesLocation: IndiaOrganization: The goal of d.light design is simple ? to eradicate kerosene lanterns from the face of the earth. To do this it will become the market leader in delivering safe and affordable lighting solutions to over 1.6 billion people who...
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The Truth about Lapdesk, A South African FOPSE: An Interview with Dan Isenberg, HBS Professor
It has been increasingly clear to me that there is a large grain of truth to the not-so-old adage, ?If you want to get something done, give it to a busy person.? As I navigated the handful of near misses with Harvard Business School Professor Dan Isenberg, I realized that I had much to...
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The Cell Phone: Building a Global Community One Ring at a Time
The?article that appeared in The Washington Post last Sunday titled “Our Cells, Ourselves” talks extensively about the growth of cell phone technology. According to that article, we have on a global scale reached yet another tipping point. As Malcolm Gladwell might say, the cell...
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