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Financial Inclusion

Day 1 at Mobile Money: Technology to Transform Transactions

What’s the best way to deliver on the promise of mobile money to bring financial inclusion to the BoP? The Center for Effective Global Action hosted dozens of telecommunications, banking, research and mobile money experts to explore that question.

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Sustainable Energy

Unlocking Uganda’s potential market for fuel-efficient stoves

There’s significant demand for fuel-efficient stoves in northern Uganda, where 76 percent of the population relies on open fires for cooking. But tapping into that market is easier said than done.

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Mobile Technology

Testing the future of emergency assistance

A quiet revolution is underway to streamline the delivery of assistance to people in crisis — using the most prolific technology in the world. And it could help people become more financially literate and secure for the long-run.

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Value Chains

Medicines hitchhike with Coca Cola to save lives

British nonprofit Colalife knows how to enjoy a Coke--its medicine gets to rural Zambians in Coke crates--but even medical supplies need local flavor to be successful.

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Sustainable Energy

Doing good with green: How d.light is making solar work

An American solar company is showing the world how to get electricity to poor families cleanly and efficiently, and how to make money at the same time.

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Social Enterprise

The SunWater project: advanced solar technology for poor farmers

Paul Polak, the author of Out of Poverty, is creating the world's most inexpensive solar water pump. Here's how.

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Social Enterprise

Transforming solar pumping to eliminate rural poverty

What if we could harness the limitless power of the sun to carry water to the crops of millions of small poor farmers around the world?

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Mobile Technology

Free life insurance with your phone bill? Ghana's Tigo tries it

With so many African mobile users switching out SIM cards on a daily basis, how do mobile companies keep their customers loyal? By offering free microinsurance products.

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Financial Inclusion

Poor and unbanked in India? The government has 12 digits for you

India is the first nation aiming to achieve greater financial inclusion for its citizens by issuing biometrically verified personal ID numbers.

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Social Enterprise

Avon in Uganda? How microfranchises create small, low-risk jobs

A door-to-door sales company in Uganda is giving a shot at entrepreneurship to would-be entrepreneurs who don’t want to risk everything.

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Social Enterprise

Geeks to the rescue: How to save the world in 54 hours

A new tech event in Portland is promising to turn local entrepreneurs into global problem-solvers.

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Social Enterprise

From Assiut to Zacatecas, do-gooders swarm startup competitions

Social enterprise is popping up in startup competitions around the developed world, but tech-savvy social entrepreneurs from developing countries are scoring wins and turning heads as well.

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Social Enterprise

Changing the world, McDonalds style: 5 great social franchises

Social franchising is a big deal, recently called the future of social enterprise and even "the solution for U.K. unemployment." Here's a look at our five favorites.

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Social Enterprise

How to sell Big Macs in India: A lesson for social entrepreneurs

Social enterprises often takes their cues from venture capital, but a recent article at Co.Exist claims there is a lot to learn from the big, bad transnational corporations as well.