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What is Social Innovation? [Video]
30 Second MBA featuring Yasmina Zaidman, Director of Communications, Acumen Fund. ...
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Social Entrepreneurship: 1 Approach to Higher Ed Bubble Bust
Economists are not alone in their worry of an impending higher education bubble bust. Given the drastic increase in cost and decrease in relevance of a college degree over the past decades, Ashoka U Exchange participants - faculty and students across disciplines, administrators and social entrepreneurs - are united in their conviction that cosmetic changes to their institutions are not enough. Co-hosted by Ashoka, the world’s largest...
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Kenya Has Mobile Health App Fever
Mobile health platforms are fast emerging in Kenya, where one startup’s newly launched mobile health platform is attracting nearly 1,000 downloads daily, and the dominant telecom, Safaricom, has forged a partnership that will give its 18 million subscribers access to doctors. A World Bank official sees significant promise from such efforts, pointing to the fact that 50 percent of all Kenyan banking is already done on mobile phones-suggesting that the population is ready to go mobile...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Selling Organs to Pay Off Debt: Microfinance Needs Reforms
When Muhammad Yunus won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work on microfinance with the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh , he would have been mortified...
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- South Asia
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Create Scope for Women to Flourish in Business: Analysts
Women entrepreneurs in South Asia are failing to flourish due to shortage of funds, difficulty in marketing, social constraints and non-participation in decision-making, analysts said yesterday amid calls for governments and private sectors to change the scenario. Women are treated as second-class citizens in the region while their contribution to the economy is totally overlooked, they said. The comments came at a discussion on "Women Leadership" on the second and concluding day ...
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- South Asia
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Coming Up, Job Plan Scheme for Urban Poor
The UPA government, which launched schemes providing employment opportunities for the rural poor during its two term in power, is now targeting the urban poor, majority of whom are slum dwellers. With an eye on the 2014 Parliamentary election, the Centre plans to launch the National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM), which will create job opportunities for the urban poor, during the 12th Plan. The housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry, which has p...
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- South Asia
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Micro-loans Helping Solar Power Take Hold in India
In Chemangala, in southern India, silk farmer H.B. Manjunath walks into a back room of a dark thatched roof cabin, flips on a light switch and watches as the cool light illuminates hundreds of milky white silkworms crawling in a wooden box full of mulberry leaves. The worms need the crispy leaves to survive and spin their silk cocoons, but they’ll only do it when there’s continuous light. Manjunath said that used to be very hard to come by. "We had four or five hours of un...
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- South Asia
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Do Designers Actually Exploit The Poor While Trying To Do Good? Jan Chipchase Responds
Recently, at the PopTech Conference in Camden, Maine, Jan Chipchase, Frog’s all-star field researcher, was giving a presentation on his travels in search of novel design solutions when a person in the audience lobbed a pointed question: "What is your motivation? Why do you do this?" When Chipchase began to respond, the audience member interrupted and asked again, "No, what is your motivation?" The follow-up hanging in the air was, "How do you sleep at night?" As the back and forth c...
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