Machine learning as a tool to predict future earning power
This post discussed how a machine learning algorithm can be applied to predict student earnings post-graduation.
Social Enterprise
East Africa is disrupted as Israeli Startup, nFrnds, is innovating for those who really need it.
Social enterprise or clever business? Perhaps both! Mobile innovation has left many behind, but for nFrnds this has not gone unnoticed!
Digitizing Indonesia, One Arisan at a Time
RUMA builds apps and gives smart phones to the rural population in Indonesia to give financial empowerment.
Sustainable Toilets: A Pleasant Solution to a Foul Problem
As climate change and resulting droughts threaten the world’s water supply, can we afford to keep flushing our problems away? Nonprofit RTI International has developed an incinerator toilet—entirely self-sustaining in energy efficiency—that will revolutionize water use in human waste disposal. http://abettertoilet.org/
Terra Nova: Proving that Irregular Land Titling Can Be a Strong Business Case
Terra Nova and its shareholders are an example that impact investing has the potential to play an important role in the solution of our social and environmental issues in a large scale.
Algramo: The Value-add Vending Machine
How a Chilean startup is eliminating the “40 % poverty tax” on food
40K – a sustainable approach to delivering impact
Business Model The 40K group is an Australian social enterprise that operates two separate entities, PLUS and Globe.[1] 40K PLUS PLUS runs after school english literacy programs in rural India. The challenge they are trying to overcome is: how do you provide […]
OMyBag: An (un)sustainable business model to support a sustainable brand’s expansion?
Designed in Amsterdam and handmade in India OmyBag is not your ordinary bag. This eco-friendly bag brand with a social mission, has successfully expanded its sales to 21 different countries across 121 different cities since its inception in 2010. The company's operating model has successfully supported growth during the first five years of the business' existence, but is it the right model to support continued sustainable development of the business going forward?
Bridge International Academies: Rapidly Scaling Education for Kenya’s Poorest Children
How a for-profit social enterprise has managed to provide 118,000 of East Africa's poorest kids an affordable, high-quality education.
Tomato Jos: Empowering Nigerian Farmers and Producing Food Products Locally
Tomato Jos: Empowering Nigerian Farmers and Producing Food Products Locally