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Is a Youth Revolution Brewing in India?
Among the world’s major countries, India has the youngest population, and the oldest leaders. A startling four-decade gap between the median age of India’s people and that of its government officials most recently reared its head with a heavy-handed and widely-maligned crackdown on free speech on the Internet.
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- South Asia
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SolarKiosk: Mobile Modular Power for Really Remote Areas
For those who’ve grown up constantly plugged into the power grid, it’s almost impossible to think of life without an endless supply of outlets, power cords, and technology. But for an estimated 1.5 billion people around the world, power—from cutting and burning firewood to lighting kerosene lamps, paraffin, and candles—doesn't come easy.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Base of the Pyramid, solar
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Weekly Roundup: (With VIDEO) Burro’s ‘Billion Dollar’ Plans
Last week Whit Alexander, Cranium’s co-creator turned founder of BoP-focused business Burro. The business is reseller of multiple products; each designed to lift a barrier to productivity and catering to multiple customers, with multiple needs and multiple skills/backgrounds. In just a few years, Burro has grown to more than 300 Burro product resellers.
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Bill Gates Thinks About Poop – And You Should Too
On Tuesday and Wednesday, engineers, philanthropists, media and more from around the world will gather at the the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle for the “Reinvent the Toilet Fair,” a $3 million project funded in grants by the Foundation that will showcase revolutionary new toilets that don’t need water, electricity or even a connection to a sewage system. The goal of the project is to help improve the lives of the 2.6 billion people in the third world who do not have access to a toilet.
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NexThought Monday: Are Managers Ready to Lose Control?: The bottom-up development perspective in base-of-the-pyramid ventures
Does inclusive business mean that the poor are only included in “our” businesses? Or should it also mean that they have their own flourishing enterprises and we become integrated in their activities? What if the poor want to play a bigger role than being just instruments included in a process that was defined by outsiders?
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Boyd’s power play a ray of light for world’s poor
Almost every entrepreneur says they want to "change the world", but for Australian Boyd Whalan, the phrase is more than just a cheap cliche.
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- Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Innovation must happen spontaneously’
R. Gopalakrishnan, Director, Tata Sons, on Thursday said that innovation is not just about being first in the market or taking big bets. Innovation is rather something that happens spontaneously.
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- South Asia
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Why Nairobi is the Stage for the 4th-Annual oikos UNDP Academy
Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi is a good fit for the annual oikos UNDP academy. Since its 2009 inauguration in Switzerland, the academy has leapfrogged from Costa Rica, to India, and now turns toward Kenya where it will be hosted from Aug. 12-17 by the Strathmore Business School in Nairobi
The 15 scholars participating in the 2012 Academy come from universities on four continents.- Categories
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