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 and to turn on it’s head conventional wisdom and a new perspective to innovative solutions. Wow that is impressive and the innovation for the future is here!

http://international.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=464&x=1

http://international.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=464&x=1

All the innovation that I can see from the mobile phone to the PCO booth in India are the first mile.

www.ifad.org/innovation/presentations/firstmile.ppt

http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/08/11/well-do-the-dirty-work-how-firstmile-solutions-will-serve-220-000-villages-in-india

So this is extremely exciting and I have just cofounded a company to address the firt mile as a challenge a great opportunity that to make a small difference with a big impact.