Development experts and companies that are seeking to engage with the base of the pyramid are seeing great potential in mobile phones, the Internet and other technologies. Staff blogger Valentina Echeverry Perez talks about how a recent presentation from Microsoft's Akhtar Badshah got her thinking about the possibilities.
A few months ago, as part of Opportunities for the Majority’s lecture series, we had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Akhtar Badshah, Senior director of Global Community Affairs at Microsoft Corporation and co-author of the recent book Technology at the Margins: How IT Meets the Needs of Emerging Markets. An architect by training, Mr.
Staff writer Valentina Echeverry Perez sets the stage for the upcoming BASE Forum for the Development of the Base of the Pyramid in Latin America and the Caribbean with a look at some of the many reasons Brazil is full of opportunities for BOP business projects.
Over the last decade, we have increasingly heard about Brazil’s emerging middle-class and the government’s achievements in reducing extreme poverty. Its "Bolsa Familia" program is among the most successful Conditional Cash Transfer programs in the region, reaching 12.7 million families, or about 50 million Brazilians.
Blogger Valentina Echeverry Perez relates her recent visit to a rural Bolivian community where small farmers are producing sesame for export to Japan, thanks to a partnership with a company called Latco International Ltda.
Opportunities for the Majority research fellow Valentina Echeverry Perez summarizes two recent events at the IDB which brought a variety of experts together to discuss the past, present and future of BOP business models in Latin America and the Caribbean, and beyond.
Mid-February was jam-packed with activity for the Opportunities for the Majority (OMJ) Initiative at the Inter-American Development Bank. On Monday, February 14, OMJ brought together more than 70 experts from multilateral institutions, investment funds, governments, NGOs, academia and private companies for its third annual Strategic Dialogue Partners' meeting to discuss leading trends and recent experiences in the Base of the Pyramid field.
