-
Women Deliver Conference 2013: A holistic approach to reaching scale
For the social enterprise field, there are critical insights to be gleaned from the international development space as well. Interventions focused on the “whole girl,” or supporting every piece of her life (health, education, legal rights, community awareness), seem to work better than interventions only focused on one isolated need area. Interestingly, most of the winning social enterprises at of the Social Enterprise Challenge at the Women Deliver Conference aligned with this thinking, largely not being product- or invention- based, but rather taking more holistic approaches.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
‘Connectivity is Productivity’: Iqbal Quadir at the BASE II Forum on tech for transformation
The recent BASE Forum featured several distinguished panelists, including Iqbal Quadir, founder and director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT, and founder of Grameenphone. He discussed how technology can support the BoP’s capacity to improve their own work productivity and daily lives.
- Categories
- Technology, Telecommunications
