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Announcement: CatComm’s Community Solutions Database on Education, Skill-building, Business & Econom
Update Deadline Extended: September 28, 2007Catalytic Communities has launched a competition in which participants will help identify creative, community-based solutions to challenges in Education & Skill-building, and Business & Economy. The deadline to post your project is September...
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GrameenPhone Obsolete? Fast Company Says Yes
Via Aman Bhandari’s Technology, Health, and Development Blog, a fascinating take on the 10th anniversary of the GrameenPhone program from Fast Company magazine: But as it turns out, the legend is far out of date. The proliferation and democratization of technology has bested the economics...
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New Paper: “Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid – An Alternate Perspective”
If you plan to take Labor Day weekend to brush up on BOP reading (perhaps in advance of next week’s “Business to Four Billion” conference), then you’re in luck. Naturally, I’ll point curious readers to our Resources page, and also to the recent papers by Aneel Karnani (a...
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Mobile Plus and FE-Mobile enter the M-Banking and Remittances Phenomenon
Mobile banking seems to be the new way to “bank the poor.” There are a growing number of companies working with these new technologies, some of which have been featured on NextBillion in the past. Schemes vary from those operating with standard in-country banking transactions to...
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Hans Rosling: “Debunking Third World Myths Through Data”
A good friend directed me to the Hans Rosling?s TED talk. I found this video particularly interesting because the way Rosling presents data is very dynamic and viewer-friendly. The animated visualization of data makes it is easier to draw conclusions and see trends. That said, I want to...
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Announcement: Second Edition of Stuart Hart?s Capitalism at Crossroads Released
NextBillion’s good friend and colleague Stuart Hart - of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University and Enterprise for a Sustainable World - has recently released the second edition of his book, “Capitalism at Crossroads.” The newly revised edition includes...
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BOP Innovation Helps Kids Breathe
In high-income countries, asthma is usually a nuisance, but among the rural BOP, asthma can be a costly and deadly disease for victims who are unable to access treatment locally.Eric Green, a medical student at Stanford University, traveled to Mexico last year as part of a group from his...
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Disruptive Innovations in Health Care ? Vote Now!
The “Disruptive Innovations in Health and Health Care” competition from Ashoka?s Changemakers - that Julia blogged about in July - is now in its last stage: the voting! There were about 300 projects that participated in this competition, ranging from microinsurance...
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