KickStart in the News

Less Labour With Simple Irrigation System

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:41:09 -0800

Appropriate Techonolgy Magazine

As they say, "If you can't irrigate it, don't plant it." The article starts on Page 20.

Yes Africa Can

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:02:48 -0800

KickStart is featured in the World Bank publication Yes Africa Can: Stories from a Dynamic Continent

Kilimo Kwanza, Irrigation Pumps and Higher Crop Yields

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:24:24 -0800

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.

The Wall Street Journal

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:31:07 -0800

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.

TIME: 25 Responsibility Pioneers

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:16:06 -0800

TIME
25 Responsibility Pioneers:How companies big and small, old and new—and consumers too—are changing the world

KickStart is featured along with companies like Starbucks, WalMart, and GE, and with our friends from LivingGoods and Acumen Fund.

KickStart Featured on NBC Tech Award Special

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:45:03 -0800

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

The Guardian (UK): Problems or opportunities?

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:14:44 -0800

The Guardian (UK)

Problems or opportunities?

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