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Friday Roundup – 10/07/11 The Next Steve Jobs …
As the plane landed upon my return from the ANDE Conference, I fired up my iPhone to read a news alert: ?Apple Announces Steve Jobs Has Died.? I flashed back to my old Apple IIe. Who would be the next iconic innovator to bring the power once held up on high to the people? Would their cause be bringing affordable technology to the poor?
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Columbia Social Enterprise Conference Preview: Investing in Social Innovation
KL Felicitas Foundation began in 2000 with a vision to scale social innovation through impact investing and support social enterprises everywhere along the spectrum from the seed stage to start-ups that are rapidly expanding. The co-founders will be on the panel "Impact Investors Spreading Social Innovation"at the conference this Friday.
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Partnerships, Private Sector, Tech Dominate SID
With an international financial system teetering, the Horn of Africa marred by famine, and aid dollars jeopardized by domestic politics, the Society for International Development’s triennial World Congress held in Washington this weekend was in no short supply of substance or imperatives.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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Recap from ANDE Metrics from the Ground Up Conference
The future of metrics is unfolding at ANDE. As an attendee of their third metrics conference, I can say it has been fascinating to observe how the metrics conversation has changed and the progress that has been made. Read on for a recap of some of these exciting developments and a look towards new work that is underway.
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- Impact Assessment
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SOCAP/Europe Preview: Beyond the Revolution in MENA
It is less than one week until SOCAP/Europe. David Munir Nabti, well-versed social entrepreneur from Lebanon, helps to set up the sessions addressing social entrepreneurship and social capital in the MENA region. He tells us about his work, shares his insights and gives us a sneak peek about what to expect at the conference
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Sankalp 2011: Moving From Questions of ’How?’ To Examples of ’How To’
At India’s premiere forum for social businesses, I was encouraged to hear a familiar set of core challenges from both entrepreneurs and the investors. But, I also found myself feeling frustrated. We know which changes need to occur to spur continued growth in the sector, and yet we’ve still not figured out how to go about making them happen.
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New NB Roles for Lall and Kendall, the Best of April ’Deviants’ and All
We recently announced several changes to the NextBillion team. In fact, with Francisco Noguera moving to the role of staff writer and a host of new scribes joining, there was too much news for one post. I’d like to take a few graphs to make a few more editorial announcements. Plus - the top-read NB posts for April. Was there wisdom in the crowds?
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Not Just Good or Bad … But Making It Better: Ideas to Impact
The conversation around BoP ventures should not be about whether to launch them, but how to build better ones, WDI Research Fellow Ted London told attendees at UC Berkeley’s Ideas Impact (I2I) - a collaborative event with the Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) last month. He provided three stages to drive BoP venture development.
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