Using future markets for social entrepreneurship?

Giulio Quaggiotto at PSD Blog, a World Bank Group blog, highlighted a very intriguing trend that is emerging within governments and companies: the use of prediction markets to help predict customer trends or citizens’ desires. His post brought forth some articles and studies that have recently come out.

A McKinsey & Co. report on prediction markets [...]

Does Development 2.0 exist?

In order to better put my previous post on the Great Indian Developer Conference in context of this blog, I read earlier a post today by Giulio Quaggiotto on PSD Blog about the possible arrival of Development 2.0 — the utilization of web 2.0 and other new technologies to improve fundraising, community interaction and overall [...]

Tsunami Microinsurance

From PSD Blog — World Bank Group:
A new health insurance plan will enable the poor in India to buy health insurance for less than 10 cents a month, and it will cover natural disasters including Tsunamis.
The new program is a partnership between and aid group, CARE International, and a private insurer, Allianz. It is expected [...]

2008 Global Development Marketplace Competition (DM2008)

The competition’s focus is Sustainable Agriculture for Development. This was brought to our attention by PSD Blog.
Here is the information provided on the competition’s website:
Applications are accepted through March 21, 2008 and will undergo rigorous review by more than 200 development experts. About 100 finalists will be announced in June and will be invited to [...]

Social Capital Index Unveiled by Xigi.net

The other day, we posted an article by PSD Blog suggesting that the new development paradigm still suffers from the same shortcomings of the old guard. Today, we have come across one initiative to help address those concerns, as Xigi.net has released a new Social Capital Index that intends to be a tracking tool for [...]

New Idea, Old Problems

The World Bank’s PSD Blog posted yesterday on how despite the novelty of social entreprenership and its potential to change the way development operates, it still suffers from teh same pitfalls that plague traditional development models. The report cited suggests that we still have some ways to go before we can officially label the emergence of [...]