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Giving a Voice to Young Water Leaders
“The Singapore International Water Week and Young Water Leaders Summit are a perfect opportunity for youth to not only learn more about the Singapore water story, but also play an important role in a leading water conference.”
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- Environment, WASH
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- Asia Pacific
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- conferences, sustainability, WASH, water
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Win $9,000 in Tickets to Social Impact Events: Enter SOCAP’s 2018 Impact Passport Giveaway
Whether you are an early-stage social entrepreneur or just exploring the world of social entrepreneurship, conscious business or impact investing, here's an amazing deal for you: SOCAP's 2018 Impact Passport giveaway offers the opportunity to go to several of the premier events in the social impact calendar this year - for free. The winner of the sweepstakes will receive a suite of conference tickets, media consultations and subscriptions with a total value of approximately $9,000.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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Maximizing Technology’s Social Impact: 10th ICT4D Conference Coming May 8-10
The 10th ICT4D Conference is the largest event of its kind in the global development sector. This year's event, happening May 8-10 in Lusaka, Zambia, aims to map out the path for technology to make the maximum impact on improving humanitarian relief and development work, bringing together over 600 ICT experts, program managers and senior executives from 80 countries. NextBillion is a media partner of the event, and our readers can get a discount on registration.
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- Technology
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Building BoP Ecosystems: Register for the 2018 BoP Global Network Summit, April 18 – 20, New Delhi, India
Ecosystem development in BoP business has evolved from a buzzword to an emerging reality, with multiple new partnerships and platforms. The 3rd BoP Global Network Summit aims to catalyze and support such partnerships, convening 200 participants from 15+ countries on April 18 – 20 in New Delhi, India. Register soon: Early bird pricing ends Feb. 28. And subscribe to NextBillion Notes for a chance to win one of two free tickets we'll be raffling off to subscribers in the coming weeks.
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- Entrepreneurship
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World Ocean Summit Coming to Mexico March 7-9: NextBillion Readers Get 20% Discount
The fifth World Ocean Summit will be held at Riviera Maya, Mexico, on March 7-9, 2018, and will grapple with some of the most intractable problems plaguing the world's oceans — as well as explore new possibilities. The Economist Group puts on the event, which will convene 360+ global leaders, for a constructive and solution-focused dialogue. NextBillion readers can get a 20 percent discount on tickets.
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- Environment
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Featured Event: NB Readers Get Discount Tickets to The Economist’s Investing for Impact
Will impact investing stay on the sidelines or become a main stage player for global change? Join editors of The Economist and 200 financiers, institutional investors, policymakers, academics, impact investors and philanthropists at "Investing for Impact: Risk, return and the future of the world." NextBillion readers get 15 percent off tickets for the Feb. 15 gathering in New York City by registering with our discount code.
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- Investing
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Most Influential Post Nominee: Will Microfinance Still Exist 10 Years From Now? Thoughts from European Microfinance Week
Does microfinance still have a place in global development? Grassroots Capital Management President Paul DiLeo tackled the subject in the closing plenary of the 2017 European Microfinance Week, which asked where microfinance – and MFIs – would be in five or 10 years. He discusses three key takeaways from the discussion, which included some surprising insights into the role the often-maligned industry can still play in poverty alleviation.
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- Inclusive Fintech, Investing
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From All-Inclusive to Socially Inclusive: Travel and Tourism’s Big Shift is Under Way
Tourism is one of the world's largest industries – but how can it best be leveraged to move nations from poverty to prosperity? That was a key question at the recent "Global Conference on Jobs & Inclusive Growth: Partnerships for Sustainable Tourism," organized in Jamaica by the UN's World Tourism Organization. NextBillion was a media partner at the conference, and we share some major themes (and a few controversial remarks) ranging from the impact of the sharing economy and Airbnb, to the problems with building "five-star hotels in three-star communities."
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- NextBillion Originals, Technology
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