Articles by Francisco Noguera
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Monday
August 24
2009The GSBI Video Blog, Part 1: Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu from Nigeria
A year flew I am back in Santa Clara working with incredibly inspiring and committed entrepreneurs from around the globe. This week we’ll be running a special series of posts titled The GSBI Video Blog. Here’s our first installment with a remarkable Nigerian whose venture brings information to rural dwellers. Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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Thursday
August 13
2009Roundup from Ghana: International Development Design Summit and Maker Faire Africa
"I cannot miss this again next year", I thought around this time last year after reading Rob’s great piece about his day at the International Development Design Summit, which took place in the MIT campus in Cambridge. I promised I wouldn’t let IDDS fall off my radar in 2009.
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Tuesday
August 11
2009Who’s Going to SOCAP 09? Gil Crawford from Microvest Capital Management
Like Alvaro Rodriguez, Gil Crawford will be at the Social Capital Markets Conference this coming September. Mr. Crawford is the Chief Executive Officer of MicroVest Capital Management. He has over 20 years experience with microfinance institutions and capital markets, and has worked extensively in Latin America and Africa, as well as in Asia.
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Saturday
August 8
2009Bankinter Foundation Talks Released: Jocelyn Wyatt, Maria Blair and More
The talks from the recent Bankinter Foundation Conference "Reinventing Support for Sustainable Development" have been released on Foundation’s website. I had the chance to participate in the Forum and listen to great presentations delivered by relevant folks in the base of the pyramid world, like Maria Blair, Jocelyn Wyatt, Nishant Lalwani ...
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Tuesday
August 4
2009Who’s Going to SOCAP 09? Alvaro Rodriguez from IGNIA Is
4 Weeks! That’s all that is left fot SOCAP ’09 to kick off. Like last year, NextBillion.net will be covering the conference with a team of Guest Bloggers. We’ll also run a series of short interviews to give you a sense of who will be there and the character of the conversations that will take place at the venue. Here’s Part 1 of our SOCAP Preview.
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Friday
July 24
2009Unlocking the Creative Potential of the “Next Billion”: Idea Competitions at the Base of the Pyramid
What are concrete methods to make co-creation / innovation from the bottom-up happen? The recent popularity of competitions seems to offer an interesting method. Interesting, fun and popular as they are, the case still seems to be that they do not capture much attention when the challenge at hand requires them to take place at the BoP.
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Thursday
July 16
2009Safe Water at the Base of the Pyramid: What Works? What Doesn?t? What?s Next?
IFC recently issued Safe Water for All, a thorough and illustrative report about the opportunities for the private sector in delivering clean water to the base of the pyramid. It sheds light on many of the topics covered in the review published here in NextBillion back in 2008.
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Thursday
July 2
2009Have you Been to Changemakers Lately? It’s About Time
Changemakers is one of the web’s most dynamic and interesting destinations for those of us interested in ideas and their power to advance tangible change in the lives of the "next billion". Its recent re-design and the upcoming finals for one of their competitions (one very much in the vein of development through enterprise) are compelling...
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