“How Not to Write About Africa” is a piece written by Binyavanga Wainaina, who I had the pleasure of meeting while I was in Nairobi. Nathaniel posted this video on today’s “Daily Entrepreneur” and I felt I should repost it for my readers. I’ve written before of my disappointment in the US News Media for [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for August 26th: “An idea whose time has come” (via Acumen Fund Blog) – I enjoyed this piece written by Chris Bennett, a rising senior at Stanford and recent participant in Acumen Fund‘s Student Leader Workshop. The Workshop is an awesome opportunity for students to interact with the social capital movement [...]

Today seems to be a slow news day, so during my daily reading I was thrilled to come across the Bambulance! In business we talk a lot about innovative and disruptive design: creating a product that can dramatically change the balance of traditional product categories or industries. This is also a major discussion among BOPreneurs [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for August 24th: IBM Expands Corporate Service Corps in Emerging Markets (via CSRwire) – This is an awesome program designed “to provide small businesses, educational institutions, and non profits with sophisticated pro bono business consulting and skills development to improve local conditions and foster job creation.” Also, here is a link [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for August 10th: There is a real shift taking place in our world today: a shift toward sustainable, meaning-driven innovation. This shift, however, is without doubt across a generational divide. Our generation, the younger generation, is fed up with the irresponsible short-term driven actions of the 20th century. We continue to [...]

At the GlobalTED 2009 conference, Michael Pritchard gave a demonstration of the remarkable ability and potential for a product he invented called the Lifesaver Water-purification Bottle. The water bottle (also available as a Jerrycan) uses a “non-chemical nano-filtration hollow fiber membrane” with the smallest pores (15 nanometers) in the industry (smallest virus is about 25 [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for August 5th: Paul Farmer out for USAID? (via Foreign Policy) – It appears as if Paul Farmer, the man recently rumored to be appointed head of USAID, is no longer in the running. The culprit seems to be the daunting vetting process itself, including a form requiring the candidate to [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for August 3rd: US Africa Trade on Exhibition at 8th Annual AGOA Forum (via Africa Business Source) – A nice overview of this weeks AGOA forum. Makes the good point that the issue needing MOST focus is no longer market access, but rather building up the competitiveness of African Countries by [...]