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What does a $20 donation do for Ashoka ? A $20 donation represents much more to us than just the money. It means that the investor, begins to explore the field of social entrepreneurship. It means one more person becomes aware of the powerful work of social entrepreneurs around the world and it means one more person will hopefully be inspired to create social change. And of course, it also helps provide support to...
GOOD Q&A: Bill DraytonBlog Post
A recent Wall Street Journal article documents the demise of Nicolas Negroponte?s dream of a $100 “one laptop per child” for millions of schoolchildren in the developing world. (Thanks to Ethan Zuckerman for pointing it out.)? To give Negroponte his due, the idea stimulated...
A Lesson for BoP Technologists: Put the Business Model FirstNews
DIRSI (Regional Dialogue on the Information Society) has released the final draft on its report about mobile phones and poverty in Latin America and The Caribbean . The report abstract notes that access to telephony for low-income groups is largely based on different strategies of use around mobile telephony. The main goal of this research project was ...
Report Studies How Mobile Phones Affect PovertyNews
...But nearly three years later, only about 2,000 students in pilot programs have received computers from the One Laptop project. An order from Uruguay for 100,000 machines appears to be the only solid deal to date with a country, although Mr. Negroponte says he’s on the verge of sealing an order from Peru for 250,000. The first mass-production run, which began this month in China, is for 300,000 laptops, tens of thousands of which are slated to go to U.S. consumers. Mr. Negroponte’s goa...
A Little Laptop With Big AmbitionsNews
The William James Foundation announces its 5th Annual Socially Responsible Business Plan Competition. This competition supports entrepreneurs who are committed to multiple-bottom line businesses (people, planet, profit) by providing entrants with expert feedback and over $40,000 in cash and in-kind prizes to the top plans. Past winners have included business ventures in a wide array of fields ranging from an environmentally sustainable low-income housing developer; portable vaccine p...
William James Foundation to Provide $40,000 in Cash and Prizes to Socially Responsible Business PlanNews
Banking on mobile phones holds promise, provided regulators are willing to be flexible The idea that mobile phones bring economic benefits is now widely accepted. In places with bad roads, few trains and parlous land lines, they substitute for travel, allow price data to be distributed more quickly and easily, enable traders to reach wider markets and generally ease the business of doing business. Leonard Waverman of the London B...
A bank in every pocket?Blog Post
Guest blogger Mareike Hussels is Latin America Manager for New Ventures. Prior to joining WRI, Mareike worked with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), where she was responsible for outreach to financial institutions in Latin America. Mareike pursued her...
Are We Making a Difference? Measuring the Social and Environmental Impacts of Small and Medium EnteBlog Post
The Center for Global Development (CGD), an independent, non-partisan, non-profit policy research organization in Washington, DC seeks a part time or full time intern to provide administrative and research support to CGD?s executive office. The Intern will support the executive office in a...
Internship: Center for Global Development
