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NextBillion News Vol. 23 March 31, 2008
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NextBillion.net Tackles the Issues of Scale and Talent at the BoP Level

[Contents]

1. Moses Lee Discusses How to Take a BoP Venture to Scale

2. Featured Blog Posts:

Technology: A Key to BoP Success?
Nitin Rao

New Study Details Problems and Prospects for Mobile Banking
Manuel Bueno

2008 Skoll World Forum Preview
Rob Katz

3. Several Initiatives Address the Issue of Fostering Talent at the BoP

4. Featured Event: Dr. Paul Farmer at NYU

5. Jobs/Careers: Associate, SeaChange Capital Partners

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NextBillion News vol.22 February 28, 2008 =============================================================

Rob Katz's Change in Latitude, How to Go From the Top to the BoP, the Green-BoP Connection, and More...

[Contents]

1. Change in Latitude, Not in Attitude: Rob Katz transitions to Acumen Fund

2. Featured Blog Posts:

From the ToP to the BoP
Moses Lee

Can Carbon Offsets Provide Livelihoods for the BoP?
Grace Augustine

Book Review: The Power of Unreasonable People - How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World
Rob Katz

3. Exploring the Green-BoP Nexus: How We Work at the Intersection of Poverty and Environment

4. Featured Event: The 2008 Emerging Markets Private Equity Forum: New York

5. Jobs/Careers: Communications Officer and Web Editor, CGAP

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NextBillion News vol.21 January 29, 2008
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The BoP Movement Goes Mainstream

[Contents]

1. Bill Gates Calls for Capitalism That Serves the Poor

2. Featured Blog Posts:

Google.org: Fuel the Growth of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
Rob Katz

Emerging Market Multinationals: BoP or Not?
Abigail Keene-Babcock

Will 2008 Be the Year of 'Next Billion' or 'Bottom Billion'?
Rob Katz

3. Bogotá's Transmilenio and the Transformation of a City

4. Featured Event: "Creative Capitalism": Can It Meet the Needs of the World's Poor?

5. Jobs/Careers: Associate, New Ventures Program (World Resources Institute)

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NextBillion News vol.20 January 7, 2008
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Staff Writer Transitions, BoP Success Factors and the Codensa Case

[Contents]

1. Moving on from NextBillion - Staff Writer Julia Tran Says Goodbye

2. Featured Blog Posts:

Does BoP Success Require the Moral Imperative?
Nitin Rao

How to Succeed at the BoP: Know Your Customer
Abigail Keene-Babcock

The Codensa Case: Electricity and Related Services for the BoP in Colombia
Manuel Bueno

3. Rising Ventures: Conserve HRP - From Rags to Fashion Bags

4. Featured Event: Global Social Benefit Incubator at Santa Clara University - $20,000 Scholarship

5. Jobs/Careers: Assistant Director for Social Entrepreneurship, NYU Stern School of Business

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NextBillion News vol.19 December 5, 2007 =============================================================
NextBillion News: BoP Conference Update, Latin American Competitiveness, $100 Laptop, and More

[Contents]

1. New Resource: Business with Four Billion Returns!

2. Featured Blog Posts:

Conference Report: The Role of the Private Sector in Latin America
Abigail Keene-Babcock

A Lesson to BoP Technologists: Put the Business Plan First
Al Hammond

The Business Model of Hopes and Dreams
Manuel Bueno

3. Rising Ventures: Suminter India Organics

4. Featured Event: Symposium on "Sustainability Prize" Business Plan Competition

5. Jobs/Careers: Job: Product Manager, MicroPlace

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NextBillion News vol.18 October 31, 2007
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Pop!Tech, MicroPlace, Malaria and More!

[Contents]

1. Kiva vs. MicroPlace - What's the Difference?
Rob Katz

2. Featured Blog Posts:

Bringing Rural Brazil Into the Internet Age?
Al Hammond

Pop!Tech - Jay Keasling's Microbes Are Changing the World
Rob Katz

Bednets and the Demise of Social Marketing - What the NY Times Missed
Abigail Keene-Babcock

3. Rising Ventures: Ouro Verde Amazônia (“Amazon Green Gold”)

4. Featured Activity Capsule: Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF)

5. Jobs/Careers: Job: Portfolio Associate, Acumen Fund

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NextBillion News vol.17 September 25, 2007
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Michigan BoP Conference and More!

[Contents]

1. Rob Katz: Why the BoP Conference Was Worth It

2. Featured blog posts: Lighting Africa: It's Time for the 'Dark Continent' to Begin to Shine by Ana Escalante and Reflections on "India's Rural Poor- Why Housing Isn't Enough to Create Sustainable Communities” by Abigail Keene-Babcock

3. Rising Ventures: Conserve HRP

4. Featured Activity Capsule: Africinvest

5. Jobs/Careers: Apply for the Acumen Fund Fellows Program

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NextBillion News vol.16 -- 22 August, 2007
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Where Business and Development Meet: We’re back!

[Contents]

1. Bill Kramer: Changing of the Guard – A Message to the Next Billion community

2. Featured blog posts: BusinessWeek on BOP - A False Dichotomy? Immigrants Build Houses in Mexico with Remittances – The Case of Construmex

3. Rising Ventures: Berni Labs

4. Featured Activities: Wulff Capital

5. Upcoming Event: Business With Four Billion: Creating Mutual Value at the Base of the Pyramid

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NextBillion News vol.15 June 4, 2006
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Where Business and Development Meet

[Contents]

1. A New Model for Rural Connectivity

2. World Bank’s Development Marketplace Results

3. Featured Activities: Development Marketplace Winners

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NextBillion News vol.14 April 23, 2006
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Where Business and Development Meet

[Contents]

1. NextBillion Nominated for Webby Award!

2. New Healthcare Activities on NextBillion

3. Profiles of Success at the BOP

[NextBillion News] NextBillion Nominated for Webby Award!

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NextBillion News vol.14 April 23, 2006
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Where Business and Development Meet

[Contents]

1. NextBillion Nominated for Webby Award!

2. New Healthcare Activities on NextBillion

[NextBillion News] NextBillion Invites Your Input!

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NextBillion News vol.13 April 2, 2006
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Where Business and Development Meet

[Contents]

1. New Look and Features on NextBillion

2. New Ventures on NextBillion

3. “Innovations”: MIT Press journal debut

3. Upcoming Events

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1. New Look and Features on NextBillion – Other suggestions?

You may have noticed a new look to Nextbillion this week. Our design team (DevelopmentSeed.org) has updated the fonts and colors a bit to make our content more readable. We've also added a few new blog topics--water, housing, and marketing--to reflect growing interest and activity in these sectors. As we approach our "official" one-year anniversary in early May, we've got some more upgrades in store for you, including enhanced search features and improvements to our user profile pages.

As long as we're in the mood to give our developers more work, we thought we'd find out what features YOU would like to see on Nextbillion. Some of our readers have already suggested the addition of a BOP jobs database. Others have said they would find a database of BOP-related business plan competitions useful. What would you find valuable?

Nextbillion has grown steadily over the past year thanks to loyal readers like you. Here’s your chance to help us make it even better. If you’ve got ideas, please email us directly at info@nextbillion.net.

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2. New Ventures on NextBillion

The fact that poverty alleviation and environmentally conscious policies go hand in hand is nothing new, yet much work is needed to support the development of sustainable entrepreneurs at the Base of the Pyramid. New Ventures (NV), a sister program at WRI, works with these socially responsible entrepreneurs to sharpen their business plans, network with like-minded professionals and attract venture capital from major investors.

New Ventures recently launched a “featured content” section on NextBillion to showcase some of their outstanding entrepreneurs who have developed innovative strategies for generating sustainable profits. The site will be loaded with in-depth articles, video, and podcast interviews featuring the next generation of CEOs who are redefining the way businesses interact with the world.

To start, NV has posted an audio interview with the founder of Sustenta Soluciones, a company that transforms environmentally friendly products from low income producers into high-end corporate gifts for companies such as Nestle, Shell and Hyatt. To access to interview, visit http://www.nextbillion.net/resources/nvcontent

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3. “Innovations”: MIT Press journal debut

MIT Press has launched the journal “Innovations,” edited by Philip Auerswald (GMU’s Center for Science and Technology Policy) and Iqbal Quadir (Harvard’s Center for Business and Government; founder of Grameen Phone). The journal’s content “bridges the gap between ‘whatever works’ BOP practice and rigorous academic analysis.” Article contributors for the journal’s first issue include Stuart Hart (Professor/Cornell University Johnson School of Business; author, Global Capitalism at the Crossroads); Bill Drayton (Founder/CEO, Ashoka); Martin Fisher (Founder/CEO, Kickstart); and other leading BOP researchers and practitioners.

[NextBillion News] New site features and activities

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NextBillion News vol. 11 February 15, 2006
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Where Business and Development Meet

[Contents]

1. Activity Database: Refined search and focus

2. Activity Spotlight: WorldWater and Coconets

3. Blogs, Newsroom, and Activity Database feature new sectors

4. Site-wide RSS feeds

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1. Activity Database: Refined search and focus

Reflecting NextBillion.net’s focus on the BOP not only as consumers but also producers--i.e., entrepreneurs and employees--NextBillion’s Activity Database now features a new “consumer/producer” search option to separate projects that bring goods and services from those that create jobs, from those that bring both. Other search options include browsing by sector and geographic location (country or region). Nearly 300 project capsules document some of the most innovative business mechanisms currently delivering development benefits.

http://www.nextbillion.net/activitycapsule

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3. Activity Spotlight: WorldWater and Coconets

Projects that are able to bring both jobs and services to the BOP are particularly intriguing evidence of how businesses and innovation can foster local self-sufficiency. WorldWater and Coconets, both operating in the Philippines, use simple technologies to allow low-income communities to turn previously untapped natural resources into low-cost products with high demand in their own communities.

[NextBillion News] Looking back at the 'Year of Microcredit'

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NextBillion News vol. 9 December 28, 2005
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Where Business and Development Meet

[Contents]

1. The ‘Year of Microcredit’: A Retrospective

2. Really Simple Just Got Simpler - RSS Now 1-Click Away

3. Activity Spotlight: Health Delivery Networks Scale

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[NextBillion News] Harnessing remittances and child’s play toward local development

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NextBillion News vol. 8 December 8, 2005
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Where Business and Development Meet

[Contents]

1. New What Works Case Study—Thamel.com: Diaspora-enabled Development

2. HBS Conference on “Global Poverty: Business Solutions and Approaches”

3. Activity Spotlight: Roundabout Outdoor Converts Child’s Play to Drinking Water

4. New Ventures Business Accelerator Launches Indonesia Operations

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