Blogs
The future is all about the First Mile!
The future is all about the First Mile, a term coined by Titus Moetsabi, a poet at the Southern African Rural Connectivity Workshop in Harare in February 1997 to demonstrate the importance of people a
Simply brilliant! A startup with the right combination of technology and business model to serve the next billion
Microtelecom as VNL claims to have developed the term and for the next billion is exciting.
Microexchanges are the future
Exchanges are the key to "Unlocking Value Through Discovery", whether it be a stock, agricultural, commodities or land exchange. Key challenges to enabling commmerce are;
Micro-innovation is the key to GDP growth
Micro-innovation which is bottom up, inclusive and integrated across an ecosystem through marketplaces are key for GDP growth. Prof.
SNP ~ Sustainable National Product as a competitive advantage
SNP or Sustainable National Product as a competitive advantage? So how does this work?
Let us first look at GDP as defined from Wikipedia
Allvoices - unedited, unmediated real community based media
Around the world. Constantly. Something is happening. The snap of the moment. A flash. A picture. A video. A short text message. A reflection.
Business model innovation will drive Renewable Energy adoption in Off-Grid, Micro-Grid and Mini-Grid Markets
Why is energy such a big issue? Because current grid models don't solve the core challenges.
Energy as an industry is a great opportunity to impact social-economic change, bottom up!
Energy is a multi-trillion dollar industry globally and yet the demand-supply gaps are extremely large, whether at the top of the pyramid or at the BOP.
Some interesting conversations at the WEF Davos.
With the WEF 08 in Davos just concluded there is much that is being discussed which may be of interest of all of us to take a look at.
http://www.forumblog.org/openforum/
Social Networks are fast becoming the architecture & Infrastructure for Commerce, Collaboration, Content & Business
Social as the prefix;
~ Social Commerce
~ Social Collaboration
~ Social Content
Models:
Social2Social
Social2Business
Business2Social
