Articles by Francisco Noguera
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Tuesday
June 23
2009Building a Practical Platform for Collaboration: Akvo.org
With this long overdue post I want to direct your attention to an innovative, relevant and icreasingly active platform called Akvo.org. Its topic area is one of obvious relevance to the NextBillion audience: drinking water and sanitation in the developing world.
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Tuesday
June 16
2009Be Inspired: Echoing Green Announces Its 2009 Fellows
SKS Microfinance, GreenMango, PharmaSecure, Mobile Metrix and One Acre Fund may sound like familiar names to NextBillion readers and those that follow the "goings on" in this base of the pyramid space. They have something in common: strong and commited leaders who were supported by Echoing Green at some point. 2009 Fellows were announced today...
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Monday
June 15
2009Notes on the State of the “Base de la Pir?mide” Movement in Spain and Latin America
I’ve been on the road for the last two weeks having conversations that allowed me to "take the pulse"of the base of the pyramid movement in Spain and Latin America. A few notes and afterthoughts follow...
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Wednesday
May 27
2009A Visit to IDEAAS: Clean Energy Solutions for Brazil’s Poor
A few weeks I had a great opportunity to visit Brazil, as part of a research project currently underway at New Ventures, aimed at benchmarking clean energy solutions for the base of the pyramid.
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Friday
May 22
2009Interview: Frank Pichel and Joseph Okyere on Unlocking Dead Capital through Land Titling
The lack of access to land and housing property rights has been deemed as one of the main obstacles to wealth creation and economic growth amongst low income populations. This is the area of focus of a project currently piloted by various private sector actors in Ghana...
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Saturday
May 9
2009“Can we make money and be good? Really?”
Sounds like a familiar question that drives people to sites like NextBillion.net, right? It is also one of the questions to be tackled during TED’s first conference in India, this coming November.
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Wednesday
May 6
2009Book Review: In the River They Swim
Where does this title come from? Why rivers and swimming? I wondered about these questions as I opened a copy of "In the River They Swim: Essays from Around the World on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty", a new book edited by Michael Fairbanks, Malik Fal, Marcela Escobari-Rose and Elizabeth Hooper. The answer to my question came pretty soon...
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Tuesday
May 5
2009Staff Writer Grace Augustine Moves On. Next Stop: Oxford
In January of 2008 Rob welcomed Grace Augustine as a Staff Writer for NextBillion.net. I remember it clearly, as I had just met Grace and many of her colleagues in Ann Arbor while attending the 2008 edition of the Net Impact Forum at the University of Michigan. Today, we wish her the best as she prepares to start a new stage at Oxford.
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