Environment
Skoll Climate Change Panel Discusses Successes and Failures of Copenhagen
Top-down political accords versus bottom-up action—a discussion of climate change at Skoll World Forum.
Grace Augustine
Environment
Skoll Award Recipients Focus on Ecosystem Services Market
Three of the seven recipients of this year’s awards were from the field of ecosystem services and avoided deforestation.
Social Entrepreneurship
Voices from the Skoll World Forum
A report from the opening plenary at the Skoll World Forum, featuring Paul Farmer.
Social Entrepreneurship
Skoll World Forum 2010 Kicks Off in Oxford
The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship focuses on “catalyzing collaboration for social change.”
Nonprofits
Competition vs. Cooperation at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP)
While being competitive at the base of the pyramid, don't lose focus on your customer or client. The remedy may be cooperation between organizations.
Global Issues
BoP 101: Essential Reading for Those Interested in the Base of the Pyramid
Pivotal pieces that have influenced the "base of the pyramid" theory.
Social Innovations
Chinese Activity in Africa, Part 2: The Path of Least Resistance
Africa is finding Chinese investment less demanding than that of the West.
Social Innovations
Chinese Activity in Africa, Part 1: Feeding the Dragon
Chinese investment in Africa could mean new opportunities in goods, services, and employment.
Nonprofits
Micro-Innovation: Bringing Billions into the Conversation
How do you assess the ability and willingness of the poor to pay for products and services that do not already exist, and how do you convince companies to take a risk on such a vast and fragmented market?
Social Innovations
MicroEnergy Credits Corporation: Catalyzing Clean Energy for the BoP
Using existing microfinance institutions and recent developments in the carbon credit markets on the supply side to facilitate the adoption of clean energy for the very poor.