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  Pop!Tech: Bunker Roy on Scaling the Bottom of the Pyramid

  Outside, it is grey and rainy, but inside, the Camden library is warm and inviting.? Today’s special session merited an early arrival to Pop!Tech: Scaling the Bottom of the Pyramid, a 2-hour talk by longtime BoP innovators Paul Polak and Bunker Roy.Bill Gordon, a Pop!Tech board member,...

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  NextBillion Returns to Pop!Tech: Conference Preview

  Tomorrow morning, I return to Maine for the annual Pop!Tech conference.? For the second consecutive year, NextBillion.net will be live-blogging the event, which brings together 600+ thought leaders for three days of inspiring presentations, performances, discussions and declarations.? (I am...

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  Social Capital Markets: Design in the Developing World

  Jocelyn Wyatt leads the Design for Social Impact initiative at IDEO (a global design consultancy). Prior to IDEO, Jocelyn worked as an Acumen Fund fellow in Kenya and served as Interim Country Director for VisionSpring in India. Jocelyn has an MBA from Thunderbird and a BA in Anthropology from...

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  BoP 101: A Review of “Must-Read” Literature for Those Interested in the Base of the Pyramid

  Thanks to Francisco Noguera for his contribution to this post. Please note that the following should not be seen as an exhaustive compilation of everything that has been written about the base of the pyramid. I encourage NextBillion readers to comment and make suggestions to enrich this...

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  Pop!Tech Fellows Focus on Development Through Enterprise

  Andrew Zolli is at it again.? On Tuesday, Zolli’s Pop!Tech announced its inaugural class of Social Innovation Fellows.? Biased as I am towards all things “base of the pyramid", I immediately browsed through the list of Fellows with my BoP filter on.? By my count, 7 of the 16...

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  Pop!Tech Launches Social Innovation Fellows Program

  Pop!Tech (www.poptech.org), the renowned annual ideas summit and social innovation network, today unveiled the 2008 Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellows: a corps of high-potential change agents incubating breakthrough ? or ?big bet? ? approaches to the world?s most pressing social, economic and environmental challenges. Each Fellow is working on a transformative solution to a critical global challenge, in categories such as sustainable energy, human rights, education, economic developme...

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  Social Capital Markets Conference 2008

  I received an e-mail last week from the organizers of Social Capital Markets 2008, a conference bringing together “entrepreneurs who want to change the world and the capital that wants to make it happen.” The organizers of SoCap08 - as they refer to it as - have lined up an all star...

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  A Day at the International Development Design Summit

  I’m hungry, and it’s getting late; I’m worried about missing my train.? The potluck table full of food isn’t helping my growling stomach, especially as more and more dishes arrive.? A fellow bystander casually offers play-by-play commentary: “India’s represented.?...