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Today Red Hat is announcing the upcoming availability of Red Hat Global Desktop. Global Desktop breaks through the price and performance barriers that have prevented many people from realizing the full benefits of state-of-the-art information technology. Red Hat and community members around the world recognized the need for a better solution to serve their local government and small business customers. This required removing the limitations that traditional desktop solutions imposed. In response...
Red Hat Launches Emerging Markets RoadmapBlog Post
I encountered a strange dilemma while perusing the website of Mobile for Good. Charged with doing a write-up of the organization, I quickly realized that the folks at M4G have already done a great job of describing what they do. As a result, I?ve just reproduced text from the website here,...
Mobile4GoodNews
IBM today launched its first-ever public ?ThinkPlace Challenge,? a three-week open forum designed to foster global collaboration on innovation opportunities and economic development issues facing the African continent. The top ideas generated through the ThinkPlace Challenge will help shape the agenda for IBM?s upcoming Global Innovation Outlook (GIO) focus on Africa, and provide longer-term input for IBM’s World Development Initiative (WDI). The GIO brings together more than 150...
IBM Launches BOP/Africa ThinkPlace ChallengeNews
If you think that the women and men in the shiny suits, operating some of the world’s most powerful corporations, are just sitting around talking dollars and cents all day, then take a look at this report. Fortunately, there are executives out there who recognize the necessity in addressing serious global issues while doing some serious global business. One of the main points the authors make is that the discussion framed around corporate social responsibility has often ...
Making Money, Making a DifferenceBlog Post
Late last month, Dr. Nachiket Mor, Deputy Managing Director of the ICICI Bank and Chairman of the New Ventures India Steering Committee announced that his bank would be launching a 100 crore fund for green businesses in emerging markets with a focus on SMEs. 100 crore is a serious commitment,...
Bridging the Finance Gap for a Generation of “Philanthropreneurs”News
ALTRUSHARE SECURITIES is a brokerage firm, engaged in the sort of things you might expect of a Wall Street outfit, like buying and selling stock, and providing research on companies. Unlike its peers, however, the firm is majority-owned by two charities that each control about one-third of it. So is it a for-profit business? Or a nonprofit fund-raising machine? In fact, like hundreds of new businesses starting up around the country, it is both. Altrushare is an example of the em...
“Businesses Try to Make Money and Save the World”News
There has been a general tendency to romanticize village life as a return to our roots. What is noticeable, though, is that most people who romanticize village life in India tend to live in cities?in India, or elsewhere. They also seem incapable of noticing the irony implicit in this romanticization, since their forefathers, too, were once villagers ?who migrated to cities for good reason. There was no greater proponent of villages than Mohandas Gandhi, who had been educated in London...
Can India Afford its Villages?Blog Post
When I recently attended The Second Annual Conference on Public Policy and Management at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, I had not imagined that it will be difficult to summarize it in a blog post. Discussed at the conference - current thinking on the proposed National Rural...
Roadblocks to Financial Inclusion
