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Next Cleantech Star: Water?
Solar power might be the star of the cleantech industry right now, but water technologies are the prot??g??s eagerly awaiting their turn in the spotlight, industry watchers said Wednesday at the Clean-Tech Investor Summit in Rancho Mirage, California. One in five people around the globe lack access to safe drinking water, said Ira Ehrenpreis, a general partner at Technology Partners, a Palo Alto, California-based venture capital firm that invests in new water technologie...
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Uganda Saccos Reach 2000
Esther Nakkazi Uganda’s savings and credit co-operatives (saccos) have grown by 40 per cent since the year 2000. The Commissioner for Co-operative Development in the Ministry of Trade, Fred Mwesigye, said the increase of saccos is a sign that Ugandans are adopting a saving culture. Already, the advent of microcredit institutions has changed the face of banking by forcing large banks to create new credit lines for small savers. According to the ...
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Business Training edge curricula in Yemen
Adnan Hizam SANA?A - A training program for small and micro enterprises on ?Business Edge? curriculums was launched last Sunday by the Small and Micro Enterprises Promotion Services (SMEPS), supported by the Dutch embassy in Sana?a. In a ceremony held in Sana?a, the Dutch ambassador Johan F.I Blankenberg said that his country has initiated a program that is focused on removing obstacles for private sector development, and for promoting sustainable private sector investment....
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Red Hat joins $100 laptop project
Red Hat has joined a closely watched industry initiative aimed at building low-cost notebook computers for children in developing countries. The open-source software company plans to lead the development of an operating system for the $100 machines, the firm said Tuesday. Some big names in computing are participating in the One Laptop Per Child, project, lead by the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The companies include Google, Advanced Micro Device...
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Local Firm Invents Groundnut Sheller
TONNET Enterprise, a local agro-processing firm, has come up with an improved manually-operated groundnut sheller. The sheller removes pods and is cost-effective for farmers who produce groundnuts in large quantities. It is capable of shelling between 300 to 400 kilogrammes of groundnuts per hour depending on the number of operators, says Robert Mugenyi, a Tonnet technician. The company is located at Kalerwe, Gayaza Road. The sheller is made f...
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The Global Economy’s Immune System
JE: ...First, you had some pretty challenging things to say about the concept behind this magazine. PH: This is a wonderfully ambitious project, and you have a great team to do it with. But let me raise a provocative question around the title, Value. The magazine is wrapped around a concept of ?inclusive capitalism.? Does this mean a variant of capitalism? And if so, I?m curious to know what the ?keepers? are and what is being put aside. I?m also more than a little concerned about th...
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More schools are developing MBA programs for socially-minded students.
The teaching of social enterprise or entrepreneurship as an option in MBA programmes is putting down new roots in Europe and broadening its focus in its original home, the US. Old assumptions - in particular, that the only way for people to be do-gooders was through a career at a non-profit organisation - are being challenged by 21st century realities. Thus the...
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Too Poor to Save?
Stuart Rutherford reveals the results of the Financial Diaries project and his experiences in the field. Q: Aren’t poor people too poor to save? Stuart Rutherford: Too poor to save, too poor not to save, that?s the paradox that faces many poor and very poor people. If you?re poor, your income is not just small, it?s probably irregular and unreliable as well. Most of it is quickly spent on essentials. The result is that when you need to buy anything othe...
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