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  • In Global Entrepreneurship, One Small Initiative Can Make One Huge Difference

    Entrepreneurs love to grumble about the roadblocks and delays created by bureaucrats. Government officials, they say, are slow, bumbling and concerned only about hewing to their rules and clocking out at 4:55 p.m. But in a study of global entrepreneurship, Raffi Amit and Mauro Guillen , both ...

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    Knowledge@Wharton (link opens in a new window)
  • In India’s Boom, Its Farmers Suffer

    By SAMEER MOHINDRU and PRASENJIT BHATTACHARYA India’s push to lend more money to farmers has coincided with a rise in agricultural output, supporting claims the funds are helping improve the quality of fertilizers and seeds while cushioning farmers from the impact of higher costs. But farmer suicides , long seen as emblematic of the malaise in Indian agriculture, also continue, illu...

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    Wall Street Journal (link opens in a new window)
  • VenturEast launches $150mn VC fund

    VenturEast, previously APIDC Venture Capital, today announced a $150 million VenturEast Proactive Fund that will invest in both early stage companies building new technologies as well as growth stage companies using technology to build growth. A significant focus of the fund will be to invest in businesses that address the needs of the digital divide/bottom-of-the pyramid markets and the needs of SMEs. Continue reading ...

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    Business Standard (link opens in a new window)
  • ICT has huge role in attracting children: Azim Premji

    Azim Premji shared this thoughts on ICT in education in The Economic Times. An excerpt: One of the few things on which there is consensus across the entire ideological spectrum in economics and politics is that literacy and education are perhaps the most significant drivers of development and democracy. For societies to improve their literacy levels and the quality of their education, multiple complex factors must be worked upon. Information and communication technology (ICT)...

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    The Economic Times (link opens in a new window)
    Region
    Asia Pacific
  • If I.T. Merged With E.T.

    By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Well, here?s something you don?t see every day. I was visiting an Indian village 350 miles east of Hyderabad and got to watch a very elderly Indian man undergo an EKG in a remote clinic, while a heart specialist, hundreds of miles away in Bangalore, watched via satellite TV and dispensed a diagnosis. This kind of telemedicine is the I.T. revolution at its best. But what struck me most was that just underneath the TV screen, powering the whole endeavor, were 16...

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    New York Times (link opens in a new window)
    Region
    South Asia
  • Technology Giants Push to Alleviate African Poverty

    Some of the world’s leading information technology corporations are in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, for what organizers are calling a historic summit focusing on Africa’s growing IT sector. Representatives of tech giants are calling for business solutions to alleviate poverty. Noel King has this report from Kigali. Industry leaders say chronic poverty in Africa will be alleviated by investment in information technology, rather...

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    Voa News (link opens in a new window)
    Region
    Sub-Saharan Africa
  • In India, Poverty Inspires Technology Workers to Altruism

    Manohar Lakshmipathi does not own a computer. In fact, in India workmen like Mr. Manohar, a house painter, are usually forbidden to touch clients? computers. So you can imagine Mr. Manohar?s wonder as he sat in a swiveling chair in front of a computer, dictating his date of birth, phone number and work history to a secretary. Afterward, a man took his photo. Then, with a click of a mouse, Mr. Manohar?s page popped onto the World Wide Web, the newest profile on an Indian Web site cal...

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    New YorkTimes (link opens in a new window)
  • Connecting Africans to Web potential

    Today, technology experts are meeting with leaders of 10 African countries in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. It’s the Connect Africa Summit . The goal is to increase the continent’s access to the Internet, and attract investment opportunities for economic growth. Gretchen Wilson reports from rural South Africa. On the side of the road, 20-year-old Esther Tlou sells plastic gas c...

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    Marketplace (link opens in a new window)
    Region
    Sub-Saharan Africa
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