Here’s your Daily Brief for October 19th: Charlie and the Chocolate Co-Op (via SocialEarth) – I’ve been hearing a lot about chocolate as of late. I’ve written previously about Madecasse and their approach to keeping the entire production value chain in Madagascar where the cocoa beans are farmed. Recently I saw this excellent post on [...]

I saw a staggering statistic yesterday — that 52% of all money transfers in Kenya are done through MPesa (the popular mobile banking platform). A growing number of organizations and companies are seeking to capitalize on this trend, including the mobile phone giant Nokia who recently introduced their own mobile banking platform. The question that [...]

Martin Montero (@Montero) has put together an awesome and comprehensive list of the top social entrepreneurs and related organizations on Twitter, so that all you need to do is click a button to automatically follow everybody on the list! This is an amazing tool to grow and develop the #socent community/tribe on Twitter so that [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for October 16th: New Approaches to New Markets: How C.K. Prahalad’s Bottom of the Pyramid Strategies Are Paying Off (via Knowledge@Wharton) – C.K. Prahalad’s book, The Fortune at The Bottom of the Pyramid, has been one of the most coveted books for those of us advocating business investment in BoP markets. [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for October 15th: A New Look At African Competitiveness (via Brainstorm Magazine) – Dr. Malik Fal of Endeavor South Africa proposes that Africa’s infrastructure, health, and education challenges are not the real issues behind Africa’s economic development. He argues that “competitiveness is more about creating ‘unique’ value that productivity.” Says Fal: [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for October 12th through October 13th: Can ‘The Simpsons’ Really Improve Lives in Africa? (via SocialEarth) – This is an awesome look at a startup in Kenya selling “Hand Made African Stone Sculpts” as Simpsons memorabilia. I think it’s awesome what 20th Century Fox saw the social benefit associated with the [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for September 14th: Is Social Enterprise Over-Hyped? (via SocialEarth) – Mike poses an interesting question regarding the hype that surrounds the social enterprise space, and asks where we really are in terms of sector development. He correlates the hype that surrounded the IT movement to that which currently surrounds the social [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for September 9th: African Entrepreneurs – (via Freakonomics Blog / NYT) – A cool write-up featuring Appfrica’s John Gosier and Magatte Wade of “Adina for Life” beverage company (which is AWESOME!). This blog post profiles three innovators in Africa introducing new solutions to their countries’ and continent’s unique challenges. They all [...]