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Innovation in India used to be largely about developing products for personal consumption and cheaper no-frills versions of existing devices. Now the products are targeted at the domestic consumer and for those at the bottom of the pyramid.
Innovation Comes Home to Go GlobalBlog Post
Six million people are joining the Indian workforce every year, while only 1 million jobs were created last year. In advance of the Sankalp Forum later this month, organizers are hosting a live Twitter chat focused on boosting employment and skill development in the country.
Reaping the Demographic Dividend: The Challenges in Creating Jobs for Young IndiaNews
How many of the hundreds of thousands of mobile phone applications seek to do truly great things, such as lift people out of poverty or improve health care for the poor?
In Chile’s Slums, A Lesson in How to Make Apps for Social GoodBlog Post
Business incubator Communities of the Earth targets women in rural villages throughout Guatemala by teaching them how to make bracelets and necklaces. Women who receive the training work together in small groups (called “Wakami Value Chains”) to craft products for Kiej de los Bosques – a Guatemala City-based business that produces an assortment of handicraft products for both national and international consumption.
On the Impact Road Trip: How Wakami Value Chains are Weaving Change in GuatemalaNews
Multinationals are beginning to take ideas developed in (and for) the emerging world and deploy them in the West.
Asian Innovation: Frugal Ideas Are Spreading from East to WestBlog Post
When considering the entrepreneurial landscape in the water and sanitation sector overall, there is an enormous opportunity for social investment to make an impact; however, in order to be successful, social enterprises will require innovative approaches to tackle the serious challenges that remain.
On World Water Day: Mapping the Water and Sanitation SectorBlog Post
For social businesses, the perpetual pursuit of a model that works, a reliable customer base, honed relevant products, and a social impact can blot out all but the sun. Exposing your company to collaboration with a competitor to share technology or distribution networks, is an anathema to most social entrepreneurs Yotam Ariel argued this week.
Roundup – 3/18/12: When Sharing Makes SenseNews
Technology can increase access to water and sanitation; other solutions seem to hinge on policy. But are the two areas distinct?
Finding the Line Between Technical and Political Solutions to Water Challenges
