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As they say, "If you can't irrigate it, don't plant it." The article starts on Page 20.
Thursday June 24, 2010
KickStart is featured in the World Bank publication Yes Africa Can: Stories from a Dynamic Continent
Friday April 30, 2010
A very interesting article from the Daily News in Tanzania, linking the use of irrigation pumps, specifically KickStart's Super Money Maker, to higher crop yields.
Thursday April 15, 2010
The Wall Street Journal
At the Base of the Pyramid
When selling to poor consumers, companies need to begin by doing something basic: They need to create the market.
A great article by, Dr. Erik Simanis of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University's Johnson School of Management, about the importance of building a market to support new technologies developed for the world's poor.
Friday October 30, 2009
KickStart is featured along with companies like Starbucks, WalMart, and GE, and with our friends from LivingGoods and Acumen Fund.
Monday September 21, 2009
NBC Bay Area: Applied Materials Presents: The Tech Awards
Every year, the Tech Museum of Innovation sponsors the Tech Awards for technology benefiting humanity. KickStart was proud to receive the 2003 Accenture Award for Economic Development. This year the Bay Area NBC affiliate aired a special on the award, featuring KickStart. The show is up on their website in four segments. KickStart is in segment three.Congratulations to all this year’s laureates and winners. A special congratulations to our friend Elizabeth Hausler, Ph.D. and her organization Build Change , winner of this year’s Katherine M. Swanson Equality Award.
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Tuesday December 9, 2008
The Guardian (UK)
It is easy to assume that Africa is a continent of despair, disaster and disarray. But those who live and work there say that there is another story to be told — one of resilience, entrepreneurialism and resourcefulness...
It's an opinion that is echoed in [KickStart Co-Founder Nick] Moon's experiences; "The image presented of Africa often enough is one of poverty, corruption, Aids and disaster," he says. "Those things are there, but dig deeper and you find it's a place of enormous energy, optimism and resilience..."
Read the full article here
Monday November 17, 2008
Business Week
Billionaire Branson Cites KickStart as an Effective Solution to Poverty
Friday July 27, 2007
Other Interesting Articles
This is an interesting piece from PRI's This American Life
. While not specifically about Kickstart, draws some amazing parrellels between African farmers and those in Haiti, and how the smallest things can make the biggest difference and sometimes be the biggest headaches. Act One is entitled "10,000 Braini...acs" and is available for streaming at the following website.
June 24, 2010 7:14 PM
Climbing out of the Aid Trap
Columbia Business School
Ideas at Work
November 06, 2009
Glenn Hubbard discusses how an old plan can become a new solution to help the world’s poorest nations lift themselves out of poverty — by putting business first.
"...aid, though well-intentioned, actually hurts the poorest countries because it prevents the growth of local business sectors. History shows that local business development has been the source of prosperity throughout the world...
..billions of dollars of aid began flowing to Africa. But despite 40 years of aid, ...African nations [remain] poor. Clearly the aid system has not been effective."
Full article here
November 9, 2009 3:30 PM
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