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Pop!Tech: Rice Power to the People With Husk Power Systems
Chip Ransler is the co-founder of Husk Power Systems (HPS), a for-profit company that cost-effectively converts rice husks into electricity. HPS utilizes a proprietary technology to run 35-100 kilowatt mini power plants, delivering pay-for-use electricity to un-electrified villages in India's "Rice Belt." HPS' five pilot projects have become operationally profitable within six months, delivering sustainable, environmentally-friendly, low-cost energy that is dramatically...
Pop!Tech: Bunker Roy on Scaling the Bottom of the Pyramid
Outside, it is grey and rainy, but inside, the Camden library is warm and inviting. Today's special session merited an early arrival to Pop!Tech: Scaling the Bottom of the Pyramid, a 2-hour talk by longtime BoP innovators Paul Polak and Bunker Roy. Bill Gordon, a Pop!Tech board member, kicks things, describing Pop!Tech's active social change mission – realized through its Accelerator and Social Innovation Fellows Programs. He then introduces today’s speakers as the...
Google's Project 10^100 Seeks Submissions for World-Changing Ideas
During our daily search of all things world changing, we came across Google's latest contest Project 10^100, being held in part to celebrate their 10-year anniversary and in part to help those who want to help others. During the next three months, the Internet search company will solicit world-changing ideas from anyone, anywhere, no matter the size or scope and will reward the top five ideas with $10 million to see their projects come to life. In today's Seattle Times Google's Managing...
Nokia Announces Contest for Social Innovation
Having a personal computer the size of your hand is something that, in a relatively short period of time, went from being seemingly impossible to practically ubiquitous. In fact, many of us can barely imagine leaving the house without one. These tiny personal pieces of technology allow to send messages and images anywhere -- from across the table to across the globe, connecting us to each other and the world. Exploring the extent to which this technology could benefit society as a whole is...
Deadlines Approaching on Two Opportunities for Social Entrepreneurs
Two leading social venture/social entrepreneurship competitions are open for applications from around the world: The Global Social Venture Competition is seeking entrants for its 2008 competition. The winning business plan will receive $25,000 for its blend of high economic and social returns. There's a total of $45,000 in the pot; winners also get professional feedback on their ventures -- "[N]early 25% of past GSVC entrants are now operating companies," according to GSVC materials. For...
NGO Brings Lighting Services to Poor Households in India
A new nongovernmental organization is forming a critical link between poor communities, renewable energy providers, and local banks in southern India. Over the past three years, the Small-Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development Fund, Inc. (S3IDF) has implemented 35 low-investment renewable lighting projects for urban and rural communities, benefiting about 5,500 people. “Increasing evolution of technology and materials is driving small-scale solutions to be much more cost effective in...
Next steps for m-banking in Africa
I saw John Gage, Sun Microsystem’s official international man of mystery, in Arusha last week, and now at the World Economic Forum in Cape Town. The man is clearly traveling too much. (It's okay, John. Me too.) John pulled me aside this afternoon and asked whether I’d learned anything useful at the afternoon session on mobile banking. I did, actually. Two of the most interesting projects in Africa were represented at the meeting - Celpay and M-PESA - as were an African banker and...
Believe, Begin, Become
Worldchanging board chair Ethan Zuckerman is in Africa, covering the TED Global conference. - ed Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete took the stage with Dr. Larry Brilliant of Google.org and Bruce McNeighbor of Technoserve. Dr. Brilliant announces his support for “Believe, Begin, Become,” a national business plan competition, modeled on the successful experiment Google and Technoserve operated this past year in Ghana. He emphasizes the importance of job creation and business...
Principle 9: Social Entrepreneurship/Base Of the Pyramid
How best do we meet the enormous social and humanitarian needs we find everywhere in the world today? There is no one right answer, no one perfect solution. Sustainable development will demand a variety of approaches, including much new thinking and innovative work. Two relatively new ideas we wrestle with frequently here at Worldchanging are social entrepreneurship and base of the pyramid businesses. Both are approaches with their problems (and many critics), but both also offer useful...
Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship 2007
Ten organizations from around the world have a new distinction as recipients of the Skoll Foundation's 2007 grants for social entrepreneurs. A total of $10,150,000 will be split evenly among the ten groups over the next three years as they tackle such urgent social issues as improving youth education, reducing our ecological footprints, providing water and sanitation in developing areas, empowering women, ensuring fair labor standards, creating more affordable housing, and sustaining the...
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