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The Spirit of Ants
The first thing Solomon Jayaprakash says at Maya Organic’s six-day-old showroom is: The cause we serve is fine, but we don’t want people to buy our products because we do that. We want them to buy them because of their exceptional quality. Our focus is on building a brand. Sympathy is unsustainable in the long run. It’s this line of thinking that distinguishes people like Solomon from other entrepreneurs who work in social sectors. ’Social entrepreneurs’...
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PC Designed for China’s Peasant Farmers
Visitors to the annual agricultural fair here this week were treated to something more than the corn harvesters and feedstuff pulverizers that usually grace such events. LANGFANG, China ? Visitors to the annual agricultural fair here this week were treated to something more than the corn harvesters and feedstuff pulverizers that usually grace such events. They got to gawk at an item that its makers hope will become the Chinese peasant’s next must-have piece of agricultural m...
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Is Intel Better Than OLPC In Teaching Kids At The Bottom Of The Pyramid?
One of the hottest controversies around is that between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child Foundation over the best approach to educate poor children in rural villages in India, Africa, China, Latin America and the Middle East and the best article written on the subject recently is by Bruce Einhorn out of HongKong. ?The battle pits giant Intel, a private corporation dominant in its field and searching for new markets, against non-pofit OLPC using open-source linux, a group of highly t...
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Kenya: State Seeks Private Sector Help for Vision 2030
High cost of investment poses the biggest threat to private sector’s participation in implementation of Vision 2030 -the Government-driven development strategy whose aim is to turn Kenya into a newly industrialised country, stakeholders said. Yesterday, it emerged that the government has finalised work on the document, and has embarked on an aggressive campaign to rope in the private sector in its execution. Wahome Gakuru, the director of the National Economic and Socia...
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New Direction Urged for Pharma Industry
The pharmaceuticals industry?s future success will require a new generation of executives who can find a fresh way to look at the world?s health challenges and its neediest countries, said Tachi Yamada, global health chief of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Pharma was an industry in which it was almost too easy to be successful. It was a licence to print money. In a way, that is how it lost its way. It lost contact with the people it was supposed to serve...
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Telecom Services Poor in India: Crisil
India may be adding a record number of mobile subscribers every month but telecom service providers have to go a long way in providing good quality of service, according to a report. NEW DELHI: India may be adding a record number of mobile subscribers every month but telecom service providers have to go a long way in providing good quality of service, according to a report. Even as wireless service providers make huge investments to keep pace with the rapid growth in subsc...
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Industry Group Brings Bikes to World’s Poor
Not everyone was searching out the latest and greatest bicycle products as the doors to the Sands Expo Halls opened yesterday. More than 70 people spent the first 90 minutes of the first show day hearing from six organizations that promote bikes as a way to increase access to healthcare, education and jobs for the world?s poor. LAS VEGAS, NV (BRAIN)?Not everyone was searching out the latest and greatest bicycle products as the doors to the Sands Expo Halls opened yesterday. More than 70 people s...
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New Business?NGO Partnerships Help the World?s Poorest
Innovative approaches to reduce poverty through trade are bringing business, NGOs, government and aid agencies together in new ways. New Business?NGO Partnerships Help the World?s Poorest International Trade Forum, 26 September 2007 - Innovative approaches to reduce poverty through trade are bringing business, NGOs, government and aid agencies together in new ways. ?We believe that the leading global companies of 2020 will be those that provide goods and services and reac...
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