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New Ideas for Saving the Lives of Women, Children
From UN Innovation Working Group, a new report on mHealth programs carries an emphasis on viable and scalable business models to improve the way healthcare is delivered to women and children. Indeed, many believe mobile ICT platforms are potential game-changers in delivering health information and services to combat maternal and child mortality.
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Three Lessons for Creating Real, Scalable Impact
The Mulago Foundation maintains a striking level of focus on real impact. They are not alone in addressing market and government failures with grants and low-interest loans. But their singular focus on measuring real impact that overcomes those failures in the geographies where those failures are the hardest to solve sets them apart.
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SOCAP11 Preview: How to Design Empathy and Other IDEO.org Projects
Jocelyn Wyatt, the long-time leader of social innovation at IDEO, recently became the co-lead and executive director of IDEO.org, the firm’s newly-launched non-profit started to address poverty-related challenges through design. She will be hosting Design Lab Office Hours at this year’s SOCAP and shares some experiences from IDEO.org’s early days.
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Disruptive Startups That Don’t Get Funded
Coca-Cola ( KO ) sells millions of bottles of its fizzy sugar water in the poorest villages of the world at 15¢ to 25¢ per bottle-prices locals can barely afford. What would happen to the multinational’s business if a well-funded Chinese soft drink startup decided to crash that market with a sweet but relatively nutritious beverage it sold for 5¢ a bottle? Coke would most likely ge...
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Working With GE to Develop Products for Rural India: MART
New Delhi, Jul 29 (PTI) Consultancy firm MART today said it is working with US-based diversified giant GE to develop affordable healthcare products for the Indian rural market. The firm that advises big firms such as HUL, Shell, Colgate, Heinz, Intel and John Deere, said it is currently helping GE in developing a host of products, including baby warmers and products to treat cardiac problems. "We are working with GE to develop very affordable healthcare products for rural India," ...
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Moving Impact Investing from Niche to Mainstream, While Protecting the Mission
Is impact investing a tool to keep good-doers busy or a tool to transform the world? The Economist’s Matthew Bishop put this question to a panel of impact investing professionals at SOCAP/Europe. Unsurprisingly, the panel’s unanimous answer was: Impact investing is here to change the world, but first there are key decisions to settle.
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GE Remodels Businesses in India
BANGALORE, India-As General Electric Co. assessed the lingering impact of the global financial crisis, it saw that some emerging markets-chief among them India-had come through the trauma better than the developed world. The Fairfield, Conn., company has been in India for more than a century, but it revamped its operations there only a few years ago to tap into the country’s large consumer m...
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Charting the Future at Women’s World Banking
In the final post of a wide-ranging interview, Mary Ellen Iskenderian, president and CEO of Women’s World Banking, discusses expansion at the organization to include multi-product servcies to individuals and explains why consolidation in would benefit the microfinance sector in the long term.
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