iBoP Asia, in collaboration with the Philippine Office of Christian Aid and the Manila Observatory, is conducting an online forum that aims to discuss the role that science, innovation and ...
iBoP Asia, in partnership with United Laboratories, Inc. and Fundacion CODESPA, is organizing a discussion on essential pro-poor business approaches and the constraints facing organizations and ventures engaged in low-income markets. Leading the activity is Mr. William J. Kramer, principal author of Next 4 Billion and president of the Global Challenge Network.
This policy brief by the International Institute of Economic Development demonstrates the importance of keeping ICTs people-centered in order to ensure their sustainability and effectiveness as development tools.
Dalindyebo Shabalala of the Center for International Environmental Law asserts that genuine cooperative technology transfer is needed for developing countries to have access to clean technologies.
Nanotechnology is being hailed as a key to addressing the water problems of poor communities. However, community understanding, acceptance and ownership of this new technology are needed for it to work.
Contributed by Sejahtera Semesta Rakyat (SETARA) Foundation / NTFP Indonesia
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Are sugar palm (aren) trees important to our lives? All parts of aren trees (Arenga pinnata or Arenga saccaharifera) can be used - from the root, stem, leaf, fruit, fiber and its sugar water (nira). Some people in Indonesia have even depended their daily subsistence on the cultivation, processing and use of aren.
Contributed by by Ecological and Agricultural Development Foundation, Inc.
Tuesday, 09 June 2009
Charcoal is the primary fuel used in most upland areas, not only in the
Philippines but also in other countries. Charcoal production is one of
the major sources of income of the upland communities who are dependent
on forest resources. However, this practice has become a cause of
forest degradation.
Contributed by Sejahtera Semesta Rakyat (SETARA) Foundation / NTFP Indonesia
Monday, 18 May 2009
Ms. Retno P. Soejoto of the Setara Foundation/NTFP Indonesia writes about their fieldwork experience in the village of Kumai Hulu in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Setara Foundation/NTFP Indonesia is currently doing an iBoP project that aims to discover the potential of nipah and aren as plant sources of bio-ethanol.
The BoP is a socio-economic designation for the roughly 4 billion individuals who live below $4 per day, living mostly in rural villages and urban slums in developing countries.
Contrary to popular assumptions, there is the emerging idea of a
BOP-centric approach that can tap the market potential of those at the
bottom of the pyramid.
iBoP Asia, in partnership with United Laboratories, Inc. and Fundacion CODESPA, is organizing a discussion on essential pro-poor business approaches and the constraints facing organizations and ventures engaged in low-income markets. Leading the activity is Mr. William J. Kramer, principal author of Next 4 Billion and president of the Global Challenge Network.
This policy brief by the International Institute of Economic Development demonstrates the importance of keeping ICTs people-centered in order to ensure their sustainability and effectiveness as development tools.
Dalindyebo Shabalala of the Center for International Environmental Law asserts that genuine cooperative technology transfer is needed for developing countries to have access to clean technologies.
Nanotechnology is being hailed as a key to addressing the water problems of poor communities. However, community understanding, acceptance and ownership of this new technology are needed for it to work.
More than 400 indigenous people gathered in a global summit to share their own strategies to adapt to climate change.