BOP Protocol in "Developed" Nations - particularly US

Cheryl Kellond — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:42:47 -0400

John, You comment that BOP protocol is being used in Flint Michigan. Can you point me to any resources or companies approaching domestic markets - whether they be inner city neighborhoods, impoverished rural areas, or migrant worker communities - with a similar approach? So much of the innovation is occurring in India and Latin American, which makes sense because of the sheer number of people. However the "poverty tax" and opportunities for asset based community development are just as real in the US - albeit at a different scale and with different mix of assets and challenges. Thank you. C2K

Guest Post: John Paul Responds to Al Hammond

Derek Newberry — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:23:36 -0400

Guest blogger John Paul is a Co-Founder and former Managing Editor of Nextbillion.net. He is currently finishing up his MBA at Cornell University, where he has focused on private-sector solutions to global poverty with the school's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise

In this post, Paul responds to Allen Hammond's series on taking Base of the Pyramid models to scale. This week, NextBillion.net will publish responses from a number of BoP experts and practitioners, followed by a concluding post from Hammond.

By John Paul

The implementation of transformational sector strategies is a compelling idea, and has a number of comparative advantages over the traditional business-only approach. First, focusing on sectors takes a systems view of the problem, allowing for the identification and mitigation of bottlenecks and missing pieces that might have prevented other initiatives from scaling. Second, what is being created is a platform network that can be adapted as needed, as the examples cited of adding IT infrastructure or remote diagnostic equipment to an established distributed healthcare network demonstrate. This ensures the increasing utility, rather than inevitable obsolescence, of what is put in place. Most intriguingly, in some ways what are being developed are human capital networks, in many ways akin to online social networks.

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BOP Protocol in "Developed" Nations - particularly US

Guest Post: John Paul Responds to Al Hammond