The NextBillion team will be taking a break in observance of the holiday weekend that starts today. We'll be back next week with a round up and some retrospective thoughts of what 2009 meant for the Base of the Pyramid movement and what could be expected in 2010.

On a separate note, regular readers may have noticed a strange behaviour in our blog comments field, which has been hit unusually often by savvy spammers the last few weeks. We regret this circumstance and are working on a solution. Our committment is to make NextBillion a dynamic, thoughtful and spam free discussion forum.

With gratitude,

The NextBillion.net team