Ms. Tiktik Dewi Sartika, our Network Fellow in Indonesia, reports on the innovations forum that was hosted by iBoP Asia and the Dewan Riset Nasional last March 3 in Jakarta.
iBoP Asia, together with the Ateneo Innovation Center and the Enviromental Science Department of the Ateneo de Manila University, is sponsoring a talk that will focus on the Philippine microfinance industry and the efforts made to bring greater efficiencies and scale in microfinance operations to reach deeper into the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid.
iBoP Asia is building partnerships not only with researchers and innovators but also with key agencies in government, the private sector and civil society. The Project has been recently cited as a “positive and inspiring” example of a pro-poor S&T research program by the Dewan Riset Nasional.
Despite significant achievements in S&T development in recent years, the Ministry of Science and Technology points out the need for greater investment in S&T and increased cooperation between scientists and enterprises.
The word 'Hapinoy' is a play on the words Happy and Pinoy, the colloquial word for Filipino. This play of words speaks of the enterprise’s vision to spur prosperity and happiness to Filipinos across the Philippines.
Following the supply chain management capacity building that the PhilRice project team had in January (under supply chain management experts Leon van Os and Els van der Lelij of Involvation BV, the Netherlands), the question we had in mind concerns how science and technology institutions can re-direct its strategy to one that is responsive and supportive to the growth of a commodity or a subsector. Since the Philippine Rice Research Institute is a science and technology institution, how...
Contributed by Sejahtera Semesta Rakyat (SETARA) Foundation / NTFP Indonesia
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Piece written by Retno P. Soejoto of Setara Foundation
It was still dark, at 3:00 o'clock morning, at the end of the month of May 2009 when we (Wisnu, our director, and I) departed to the bus pool of Damri that would take us to the Soekarno-Hatta Airport. Today we were going back to visit the city of Pangkalan Bun in Central Kalimantan to prepare a workshop to discuss the role of each party in the development of Nipah in Kumai.
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.
Ms. Tiktik Dewi Sartika, our Network Fellow in Indonesia, reports on the innovations forum that was hosted by iBoP Asia and the Dewan Riset Nasional last March 3 in Jakarta.
Dr. Antonio La Viña, who led the REDD-plus negotiations in Copenhagen, shares some personal reflections on how to move forward after Copenhagen.
iBoP Asia is building partnerships not only with researchers and innovators but also with key agencies in government, the private sector and civil society. The Project has been recently cited as a “positive and inspiring” example of a pro-poor S&T research program by the Dewan Riset Nasional.
Despite significant achievements in S&T development in recent years, the Ministry of Science and Technology points out the need for greater investment in S&T and increased cooperation between scientists and enterprises.
