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He listened first, then designed products for the world’s poorest people long before the term ’social entrepreneur’ came into use. Go spend time with your new market. Understand their needs. Do not presuppose that you know the answer. Multinationals can play a role in this. It’s about collaborating. They can contribute to the development of millions of people’s lives by offering them goods and services they need at a price they can afford. But they have ...
Paul Polak ? Developing Products for ’The Other 90 Percent’ of HumanityBlog Post
Paul Polak is wearing a sweater vest.? This will come as no surprise to anyone who?s met him or seen him speak.? The man loves sweaters ? cardigans, sweater vests, pullovers.? Hell, in Camden today ? with temperatures hovering around 40 degrees in the midday sun ? Paul?s sweater...
Pop!Tech: Paul Polak on Scaling the Bottom of the PyramidNews
Interview?from Fresh Air from WHYY on April 23, 2008 Paul Polak, founder of the nonprofit International Development Enterprises, has spent 25 years working to eradicate poverty in Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and other countries in the developing world. His perhaps-surprising conclusion: Government subsidies for the rural poor often make things worse. Instead, Polak teaches families and farmers - many of whom live on a dollar a d...
Paul Polak, Tackling Global Poverty His Own WayBlog Post
So far, 2008 has been a great year in terms of attention to BoP and market-based solutions to poverty. Out of Poverty, a new book by Paul Polak, founder of International Development Enterprises (IDE), just hit the shelves this month and will certainly add to this momentum. IDE’s recent...
Book Review: Paul Polak’s Out of PovertyBlog Post
Cambodia faces a number of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)-related challenges — particularly in the floating villages and dense lakeside communities around the Mekong River. As Simon Crittle at iDE explains, these waterways are heavily contaminated, causing residents to suffer from waterborne diseases. He explores how iDE is addressing these issues by helping local community members create and monetize waste-management solutions — providing livelihoods for women entrepreneurs in the process.
From Trash Barriers to ‘Sky Latrines’: Leveraging Entrepreneurship to Address WASH-Related Challenges in Cambodia’s Floating VillagesBlog Post
What if girls destined for poverty in developing countries were connected with some of the best minds in Silicon Valley? They can be, thanks to the Girl Effect Accelerator, an initiative of the Nike Foundation and the Unreasonable Group. The program helped Annetty Chama go from having no job – and no hope of getting one – to becoming her family's primary bread-winner in Zambia.
The Girl Effect: Accelerator Connects Girls in Poverty with Silicon Valley InnovatorsBlog Post
A group of talented people will come together at the Measured Summit in New York City on Jan. 24 to discuss protocols for measuring the impact of social design in an effort to understand it better, evaluate where it works and why, attract and prepare the next practitioners to take it further, and scale those things about it that have earned attention and hope.
Measuring the Impact of Social DesignCheryl Heller
