The Daily Entrepreneur: Mobile Uganda and the Case for Business

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-05-08 18:01:00 UTC
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Felix Kitaka, Africa's Mark Zuckerberg?

Status.ug: A Local Mobile Portal for Facebook: Jon Gosier's Appfrica shop aggressively asserts that there are incredible financial opportunities for web services in the developing world. I'm going to scream this story until the whole venture industry jumps on planes.

Are the Only Innovations in Social Entrepreneurship Anglo-Saxon?: Social Edge hosts an incredible important (and fervent!) conversation about the potential elitism and imperialism of our field.

Charity vs Business: The Business Case: Tony Wang writes a really excellent post on how to invest capital with the greatest possible for social return.

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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