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• Lessons from the BoP 8: Assumptions of contextual knowledge questioned to lower barriers to acceptance

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 108
  Quite a few people, all quite wellknown in their fields, mostly from high tech industries, have said the equivalent regarding the BoP - "just give them the technology and theyll figure everything else out, look how creative they are etc" when it comes to introducing new products and services. And, with world class ...
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• Banking on the future of mobile financial transactions

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 108
  Espoo, Finland on 6th November 2009 Bo Harald of Tieto Corporation shared a vision of the future that his company has been working on along with many other stakehholders. They are already in the process of implementating eInvoicing, part of something they call the Real Time Economy of financial transactions ...
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• Mobile money services, contextually designed biz models for the BoP

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 108
  Dave Tait shared this press release today from FNB South Africa who have just announced a very sensitively designed system for remittance across urban and rural South Africa. On the other hand is the World Money announcement by Vodafone , who are desperately trying to position their "World Money bank account ...
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• Mapping hyperlocal BoP markets, Ushahidi might work well

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 108
  Im going to try and describe something that Erik Hersman and I once talked about for about an hour or more over Skype back when I was still living in Singapore, could have been early this year. Anyway, we got into discussing it over email again and I have his permission to share some of these ideas. What the ...
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• Lessons from the BoP 7: the challenge of establishing trust, a last mile problem

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 108
  Wallpainted advertising, near Kanpur, India, September 12th 2009 Along with cost, the second biggest challenge at the base of the pyramid markets is building "trust" in the community, the local equivalent of building a brand. First , find out which media people trust the most and aim to be on three of them, the ...
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• C.K. Prahalad Q&A: Lessons from the Bottom of the Pyramid

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 629
  It’s been five years since the publication of “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits,” the seminal work by C.K. Prahalad, a professor of corporate strategy at the Ross School of Business of the University of Michigan.The book combined a pragmatic framework with ...
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• Keeping my promise to Ben

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 110
  During a Skype conference with Ben Lyon, executive director of FrontlineSMS: Credit, I said Id write about what I was seeing in todays twenty something generation. Keep in mind, ladies and gentlemen, that Mr Lyon is but 22 and a half years old or thereabouts. I wish Id had the opportunities, technologies and ...
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• Lessons from the BoP 6: sophisticated cash flow management

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 108
  Do telecenters in Sri Lanka make money? Yes. They report an averagemonthly income of Rs. 22,119. (=USD 201) This is associated with arelatively large standard deviation of Rs. 21,714 (= USD 197)indicating a variation within a wide range. This means a large numberof telecenters are running at a loss. This snippet ...
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• Dreams of Increasing Connectivity: Virtual SIMs in the Cloud

  
  MobileActive.org - A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact. — Authority: 128
  People in the developed world consider the phone a very personal object, something that is always on and always with us. In many developing countries, thats not always the case. People share phones, and many dont own handsets because they are too expensive. A new company, Movirtu (with a catchy tag line: "Mobile ...
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  MobileActive.org - A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact. — Authority: 128
  
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• Lessons from the BoP 4: Maximize constraints, minimize resources

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 110
  Leather workshop, ladies NGO, Kanpur India September 14 2009 During a long skype conversation with Scott Smith , who recently wrote about the just launched WikiReader a couple of days ago, we arrived at the conclusion that perhaps the onrushing juggernaut towards ultimate convergence of handheld devices was ...
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• Brave Thinkers in the Atlantic: Paul Polak Social Entrepreneur to the BOP

  
  Compassion in Politics: Christian Social Entrepreneurship, Education Innovation, & Base of the Pyramid/BOP Solutions — Authority: 116
  Paul Polak founder for International Development Enterprises (IDE) was featured in this month’s Atlantic feature entitled “ Brave Thinkers “: Name: Paul Polak Job: Founder of International Development Enterprises and D-Rev Why he’s brave: His companies treat the poor as consumers and entrepreneurs. Quote: ...
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• Young Health Workers more likely to adopt the m-HealthSurvey

  
  LIRNEasia — Authority: 500
  A m-HealthSurvey Certification Exercise was carried out as part of the m-Health Real-Time Biosurveillance Program (RTBP) to measure the usability and adoptability of the m-HealthSurvey mobile application . The exercise was conducted with health workers in Sivagangai District, Tamil Nadu, India and in Kurunegala ...
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• Social Enterprise Elitism?

  
  Cause Global: Social Media for Social Change — Authority: 415
  Theres a growing debate in the social enterprise world, not only about whos a social entrepreneur but about whos being left out of the club. True, the exceptions and misconceptions abound, but the debate settles around two main points -- that unless youre a Caucasian and unless youre an MBA, its tougher to get ...
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