As they say, "If you can't irrigate it, don't plant it." The article starts on Page 20.
]]>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.
KickStart is featured along with companies like Starbucks, WalMart, and GE, and with our friends from LivingGoods and Acumen Fund.
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.
]]>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
]]>Billionaire Branson Cites KickStart as an Effective Solution to Poverty
]]>How Innovative Devices Can Boost the Poorest Farmers, Entrepeneurs
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]]>Tastemakers: Industrial Design (The BMW 7 Series, The iMac, and the MoneyMaker Pump)
]]>Waterworks: Kenyan farmers are getting a big boost from a simple piece of equipment
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