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Access resources from the 1st BASE Forum, hosted by the IDB's Opportunities for the Majority Initiative June 27-28 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Content includes video from plenary discussions, speaker presentation materials and more.
In Sao Paulo, Brazil on June 27-28, 2011, the IDB's Opportunities for the Majority Initiative held its first international conference, the BASE Forum for the Development of the Base of the Pyramid in Latin America and the Caribbean. Highlights from the event, links to speaker presentations and more follow.
On June 27 and 28, the IDB’s Opportunities for the Majority Initiative held its first major international conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The BASE Forum drew an overflow crowd of almost 800 registrants from a variety of backgrounds, including business, international development, government, and nonprofits, all eager to learn about the concepts behind base of the pyramid business models and how they are playing out at companies throughout Latin America.
Staff blogger Francisco Mejia looks at why impact measurements have not been a large part of BOP business projects to date, and describes a variety of approaches that can be used. Part one in a series.
C.K. Prahalad's seminal book “The Fortune at the Base of the Pyramid,” published over ten years ago, emphasized that innovation and fresh thinking were needed to harness the enormous opportunity represented by the BOP.
Eight companies have been selected to take part in the Corporate Leaders Program for Success in Majority Markets and will now receive expert advice on developing their BOP business concepts into detailed business plans.
Julián Ugarte of the Un Techo Para Mi País Innovation Center talks about how he got interested in using his industrial design skills on behalf of the base of the pyramid and his work consulting with companies on their BOP product designs.
Last year, MajorityMarkets.org told you about an event organized by Opportunities for the Majority and the Un Techo Para Mi País Innovation Center in Santiago, Chile, which was meant to get engineering professors and their students excited about using their skills on projects that benefit the base of the pyramid.
Information about the conference to be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil on September 14, 2010 on the Potential of Private Sector Solutions in Nutrition
Early this year the IDB presented a proposal to Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs to conduct a reasearch project to measure the "Poverty Penalty" in the region. This blog was prepared by the "Columbia Poverty Penalty Group" that worked on the assignment.
If you’re reading this blog, it’s unlikely you spend a great deal of your time waiting for things – perhaps several minutes in line at the grocery store, or longer in a doctor’s waiting room. But what if you had a long wait ahead of you each time you needed to go to the bathroom or get a drink of water?
A look at megaretailer Walmart's approach to expanding into underserved areas in Mexico -- not in its familiar "big box" format but as a chain of smaller stores offering products geared toward low-income customers.
Not too long ago, a colleague wrote a blog post titled “Supermarkets for Majority Markets,” which highlights both domestic and international efforts to create jobs and improve community health by opening supermarkets in low income areas.
Staff blogger Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen recently attended the IDB's Annual Board of Governors' Meeting in Cancun, Mexico, and reports that new partnerships are forming between several companies involved in the Opportunities for the Majority Dialogue.
On March 19, I attended the meeting IDB organized in connection with the Annual Board of Governors’ Meeting in Cancun on The Role of the Private Sector in the Economic and Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean. As part of this event, the Opportunities for the Majority initiative organized a panel titled “Scaling the Impact of Market-based Business Models with the Base of the Pyra
At recent conference, the "Engineering for the Developing World Summit," scientists and academics heard about the important role technology can play in engaging with the base of the pyramid. Staff blogger Elizabeth Terry shares an account of one panel and looks at what the audience might do with this new knowledge.
Late last year we told you about a workshop held in Santiago de Chile for engineering professors from leading Latin American universities, which was all about introducing them to the important role technology can play in making new products and services available to the base of the pyramid.
