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Health workers as mobile money agents?: Digital Campus working on a business model that explores the synergies
A major barrier to mobile money uptake is the lack of a well-trained agent network to serve and address the financial needs of the community, with the greatest effects felt in remote areas. One way to address this challenge is to explore synergies between community health workers and mobile money agents.
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Refining the Business Case for Off-Grid Energy in India: Illuminating the models with the greatest potential
Many entrepreneurs and investors have started trying to capitalize on the market opportunity for off-grid electricity in India, but so far, very few have reached meaningful scale. “The Business Case for Off-Grid Energy in India,” a new report by Dalberg on behalf of the Climate Group, highlights the business models with the greatest potential.
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Nextbillion’s Most Viewed, Shared Posts in February: Failure, Glorious Failure
The old adage that it’s not news if everything goes according to plan – that applies to blog sites like ours, too. And so, as per usual, stories about failure led the list of our most-viewed and most-shared posts of February. But there was no reveling in schadenfreude here. Rather, we opened the month with a series on what we could learn from failures, brought to us by a burgeoning global organization that has failure right in its name.
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Texting Toward a Better Business: What happened when women in three countries were offered bite-sized bits of business know-how via mobile phones
The Business Women mobile service, developed by the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, the ExxonMobil Foundation and Nokia, offered women bite-sized bits of business know-how via their mobile phones. Every week, thousands of women in Nigeria, Indonesia, and Tanzania received five or six business tips as part of a year-long curriculum.
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NexThought Monday – Relieving the Burden: The role of microinsurance in financing HIV care
Microinsurance is not the primary solution to solving the HIV/AIDS crisis. But in the absence of universal health care and access to antiretroviral drugs, the author says, it can play a vital role in managing existing cases, providing anti-retroviral therapy for those with limited access and addressing hospitalization needs.
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Who Moved My Cheese?: A social enterprise discovers that the dairy business is harder than it looks
In a poor region of Bolivia, goat milk producers often drink their own product, for lack of a market. Pro-Milk was launched to help them make and sell cheese instead. But the company was soon undermined by challenges in its business model and region. Fundación IES, a development institution that supported Pro-Milk, tells the story in the latest post in our business failure series.
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Check out a Replay of Latest Google+ Hangout : Our guests: Kayser, Budinich authors of ‘Scaling Up Business Solutions to Social Problems’
The new book, “Scaling Up Business Solutions to Social Problems,” not only assesses “why is the lab for social innovation full but its globalization plant so empty?” but provides realistic remedies to turn around vexing problem of scale. In our next Google Hangout, authors Olivier Kayser and Valeria Budinich join us.
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Indonesia, The Calm Before the Storm: Helix Institute discusses the implications of new regulations on the country’s mobile money agent networks
In Indonesia, regulatory uncertainly has kept big digital financial services players from investing to scale aggressively. But with new regulations, that may soon change. The Helix Institute examines the implications for Indonesian mobile money agent networks in the latest report from its Agent Network Accelerator Survey.
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