Sean Gallagher
April 27, 2005 — 06:40 pm
I wanted to draw people's attention to one of the more excting areas of this new site - the NewsRoom. When we were designing the site - we searched for appropriate RSS feeds that could be featured on the sidebars. What we found was that there is no single good source of news on this subject - so we created our own. Also very cool is the News Archive where we have articles that go back to January 05. The variety of sources and range of stories - all with a development through enterprise theme - is really incredible. Have a look around.
John Paul
April 22, 2005 — 03:12 pm
One of the strongest themes to come out of the 'Eradicating Poverty Through Profit' conference was the need for companies to develop a deeper understanding of their target market's needs before developing products and services that intend to fulfill them.
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Allen Hammond
April 20, 2005 — 05:02 pm
The conference left a powerful impression—of huge companies and NGOs more or less on the same page, of governments and aid agencies endorsing business approaches to poverty, of entrepreneurs and visionary CEOs from enterprises in developing countries being recognized as pioneers in new business strategies. But most of all the impression was of people and their energy and excitement over an emerging new approach to development. You can revisit some of that through the videos and speaker presentations posted under Conference Resources. We have tried to sum up the wealth of ideas and discussions in the posted document that covers both the plenary sessions and the more hands-on workshop tracks. But we know that any summary lacks the vitality and mix of perceptions that made the real thing so interesting. So we invite your input—what did the conference mean to you? What blew your mind? What would you add to the summary that we have missed, or got wrong? See the Conference Summary and leave your thoughts!
Allen Hammond
April 15, 2005 — 09:19 am
Steve Lita
April 12, 2005 — 09:03 am
SciDev.net has created a new dossier on R&D:
This dossier, compiled under the guidance of an international panel of advisors, brings together a range of articles that cover topics of direct relevance to understanding R&D policy in developing countries. It contains policy briefs, opinion articles, news items and features, as well as links to key documents and relevant organisations, that provide a brief but essential guide to this issue.
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Rob Katz
April 11, 2005 — 01:54 pm
Europe's Hypermarkets Under Fire
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Steve Lita
April 5, 2005 — 10:01 am
Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL), Chicago, and the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology announced that UL will provide a $25,000 grant to support the institute’s efforts to design cost-effective ways to transport and distribute drinking water in the slums of Mumbai, India. The initiative is part of the institute’s Design for the Base of the Pyramid project, which aims to create new products and services that improve daily life and generate sustainable economic growth in the developing world’s impoverished cities.
(Found at Pollution Engineering here.)
Allen Hammond
April 5, 2005 — 09:18 am
That’s often the initial response when people hear of the $30 cell phone that Motorola is building for emerging markets. Or the $185 internet access device (a PC, except that you can’t load new software on it) that AMD is shipping to India and the Caribbean. Or a nifty little home water purifier that can supply a family’s needs for $10 a year (to be launched in India this summer).
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