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Lighting Africa: It’s Time for the ’Dark Continent’ to Begin to Shine!
"The sun has set in one of the world’s poorest nations and as the floodlights come on at G’bessi International Airport, the parking lot begins filling with children.” I read this in the news article “Kids in Guinea Study Under Airport Lamps” earlier this summer. ...
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Blogging from the Business to Four Billion Conference
Al Hammond, Virginia Barreiro and I are heading to Michigan this weekend for the big “Business to Four Billion” conference in Ann Arbor.? Al will be keynoting on Sunday night at dinner, and I’m moderating a panel on Monday morning -- so, shameless self-promotion - check us out!...
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The 100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability
Great inventions have changed our lives and the world dramatically throughout history. For instance, my Mayan ancestors from the Yucatan invented the cero (a.k.a. the zero). Of course there are more mainstream inventions: the light bulb, the telephone, the Internet (thanks, Al Gore) - the...
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New Paper: Advancing the “Base of the Pyramid” Debate
In the wake of last week’s discussion of Professor Anand Jaiswal’s new paper, I received a note from Professor Nancy E. Landrum from the University of Arkansas-Little Rock.? Her new paper, Advancing the ’Base of the Pyramid’ Debate (PDF), was first published this past May in...
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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on the 10th anniversary of the GrameenPhone program from Fast Company magazine: But as it turns out, the legend is far out of date.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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