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Twitter Top Ten – 10-26-14: Our favorite tweets of the week
We’re continuing what we’re calling a "pilot feature" here at NextBillion. Each Sunday for the next three weeks, we’re running a post highlighting the top tweets that crossed our editors’ computer screens during the preceding week. Our goal is to highlight emerging developments in our coverage areas, while also drawing attention to some compelling voices online.
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- Health Care
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The ‘Scrappy Rockstar’ of Global Health?: Maternova using Amazon-type platform to help save lives of mothers, infants in developing world
Maternova, a women-owned, women-run, for-profit social enterprise, has been described as "an Amazon-type platform, but for global health technologies." Allyson Cote, a co-founder, describes how her company is helping save the lives of mothers and infants in developing countries around the world.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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NexThought Monday – Money and Motivation: Why are some people willing to work at a social enterprise for free?
No leader has all the skills needed if a social enterprise is to succeed. Each of us must tap into others’ skill sets, often by hiring consultants to fill gaps. But when you can find people who will work pro bono that can be a fantastic option. Andrea Trice explores how managers can approach and work with volunteers.
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After Winning Hult Prize, MBA Entrepreneurs Seek To Heal Indian Healthcare
Manish Ranjan led his business school team to victory in the Hult Prize 2014. Now, the MBA entrepreneur has grand plans to help fix India's healthcare system.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Verifying a Need: SimPrints wades into ‘identification crisis’ in health care, seeking global scale
SimPrints has developed a pocket-size fingerprint scanner that instantly links an individual’s fingerprint to his or her health records. The Bluetooth-enabled scanner allows health workers in the field in developing countries to make better decisions by providing immediate and reliable access to critical medical information.
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- Environment, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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The Acumen Classroom: Six online courses address nuts and bolts of social entrepreneurship
Our vision is that five, 10 or 20 years down the road, not just Acumen, but everyone will be working on a completely different curve, one that’s smarter in solving problems of poverty. Because of this, our courses emphasize tangible financial and operational skills, such as human-centered design and social impact analysis, as well as leadership training and what we call "moral imagination."
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- Social Enterprise, Uncategorized
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In Pakistan, Going Beyond ‘Potential’: Despite progress, Pakistan’s current environment criminalizes good actors rather than enabling them
Kalsoom Lakhani first wrote about Pakistan’s entrepreneurial potential for NextBillion back in January 2012, when the ecosystem there was still relatively nascent. Nearly three years later, the founder and CEO of accelerator Invest2Innovate says today’s entrepreneurship competitions, co-working spaces, university incubators and organizations are not just a rare occurrence, but are becoming the norm.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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OPINION: Ebola and Irrational Exuberance for Social Impact Bonds and Social Enterprise
The lack of preventative action against Ebola isn’t just market failure, and effective action against public health crises in West Africa are unlikely to be addressed by private investors putting money into social impact bonds.
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- Health Care