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New Rices for Africa
A decade after their introduction in Africa, strains of rice that are resistant to drought, pests and disease have still spread to only a tiny fraction of the land in West Africa, where they could help millions of farming families escape poverty. Scientists call these wonder seeds New Rices for Africa, or Nericas. One place where the seeds are being used is in Guinea’s Faranah province. Last year, a member of a women’s collective there carried Nerica rice to be threshed. Neric...
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Accra Conference – Business Leaders to Brainstorm On Poverty
Private and public sector leaders arriving in Ghana for the 5th African Business Leaders Forum have underlined the urgent need to define new solutions to the challenges created by widespread poverty on the continent. The three-day high profile event which takes place at the Accra International Conference Centre from October 17 to 19, 2007 will open with a presidential debate aimed at finding ways that the private and public sectors can work together to ’Conquer Poverty for Good&#...
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Microfinance to the Rescue of the People at the Bottom
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IBM Partners with Grameen Foundation to Expand Its Open Source Microfinance Banking Platform And Hel
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Grameen Foundation today announced a collaborative project to help microfinance institutions (MFIs) better serve poor communities around the world by expanding Mifos, Grameen Foundation’s ground-breaking open source microfinance software platform. The project will build additional functionality and robustness into the Mifos application and give MFIs around the world access to new, world-class software that streamlines the lending process and significantly reduces operatio...
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At Microsoft, Seeking the Next Billion Computer Users
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer got Microsoft its first billion customers. It’s Will Poole’s job to get the next billion. Poole, who co-leads Microsoft’s emerging-markets push, is chartered with enabling the company’s goal of allowing 1 billion more people to access computing technology by 2015. The company has a number of efforts under way in the area, from the Starter Editions of Windows XP and Vista, to shared computers for classrooms, to research into turning a cell p...
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Una fundaci?n socialmente rentable
La Fundaci?n Social gan? este a?o el premio al Emprendimiento Social, entregado por la Revista Dinero y la Fundaci?n Schwab, que para esta edici?n tuvo como aliados al PNUD y a la CAF. La estrategia: anticiparse en llegar a la base de la pir?mide. A principios del siglo pasado, cuando las teor?as sobre el desarrollo empresarial y la creaci?n de riqueza en la base de la pir?mide ?los mercados compuestos por personas de menores recursos? no estaban en la agenda de negocios, ni de planeaci?n y crec...
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The Best Recipe for Ending Poverty is Homemade
Alleviating poverty remains a core issue on the global agenda--rightfully so--but serious consideration should be invested in new approaches. The long-tested methods familiar to government and donors simply have not proven themselves up to the challenge. ? While some trumpet the great strides that the world has made toward achieving the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which range from halting the spread of HIV/AIDS to providing universal primary education by 2015, others...
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Internet Revolution Reaches India’s Poor
Manohar Lakshmipathi does not own a computer. In fact, workmen like Manohar, a house painter, are usually forbidden to touch clients’ computers on the job here. BANGALORE: Manohar Lakshmipathi does not own a computer. In fact, workmen like Manohar, a house painter, are usually forbidden to touch clients’ computers on the job here. So you can imagine Manohar’s wonder as he sat dictating his date of birth, phone number and work history to a secretary who entered them into a ...
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