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GSBI - The GSBI Class of 2006

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The Class of 2006


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Participant: Edgardo Herbosa
B2Bpricenow.com
Location:
Philippines / Worldwide
Source: World Bank Development Marketplace

Provides up to the minute price information for agriculture, consumer, and industrial manufacturers. Enables e-commerce between to rural farmers through b2bpricenow digital centers creating an electronic marketplace.

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Participant: Adriaan Mol
BushProof
Location: Madagascar
Source: World Bank Development Marketplace

Provides innovative solutions such as water and sanitation products that positively impact the health and well-being of people living in low-income countries.

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Participant: Joseph Adelegan
Cows to Kilowatts
Location: Nigeria
Source: Social Edge

Installs biogas plants to create a cheap source of domestic energy, abate pollution, and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from one of Africa’s largest slaughterhouses where unabated pollution threatens citizen’s health, and need for affordable cooking gas runs high.


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Participant: Dora Talavera
Dress for Development
Location: Bolivia / Worldwide
Source: World Bank Development Marketplace

Promotes the education and employment of disadvantaged and handicapped women seamstresses and tailors in the creation of specialty clothing for fashion designers in the US and Europe that do not seek or require mass output.  

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Participant: Satyan Mishra
Drishtee
Location: India
Source: World Bank Development Marketplace

Bridging the digital divide using ICT tools and Information Centers as an advantage for remote and economically poor rural communities.

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Participant: Collins Apuoyo
Enterprise Professional Services
Location: Kenya
Source: World Bank Development Marketplace

Improving the livelihoods and environmental outcomes of slum dwellers living along the Mukuru-Ngong River by piloting a used oil collection and recycling facility.  

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Participant: Tinshu Gemhu
Helps International (HINT)
Location: Cameroon
Source: Global Junior Challenge

Provides computer literacy training and internet-related livelihood opportunities through ICT centers in Cameroon.  

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Participant: Christopher Johnson
ifPeople
Location: United States
Source: SocialEdge

Delivers interactive online collaboration and communication applications and strategies for value-driven enterprises.

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Participant: Suresh Subramanian
International Development Enterprises - India
Location: India
Source: 2006 Tech Awards Laureate

IDE manages a profitable supply chain that provides low cost drip irrigation solutions.  The systems can be deployed and maintained by small farmers and generates significant economic and social empowerment by enabling a shift to higher value products.  IDE is committed to delivering environmentally safe, affordable and potentially sustainable appropriate technologies to rural communities by blending market and donor supported business models.  

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Participant: Atsu Titiati
Enterprise Works / VITA
Location: Ghana
Source: World Bank Development Marketplace

Enterprise Works seeks to create a market for wind powered generators that are manufactured by local artisans, using local materials, and with local maintenance.   Their model overcomes the previous barriers associated with long supply chains, lack of spare parts, and the need for low cost, high output highly distributed electric generating systems, with economically sustainable local production and maintenance.

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Participant: Matthew Flannery
Kiva
Location: USA / Worldwide
Source: Social Edge

Kiva has developed the world’s first ever online peer-to-peer microfinance lending platform for connecting lenders with small to medium enterprises in developing countries.   Lenders all over the world can loan to micro businesses in developing countries, with “deal flows” developed through local partner organizations in micro-finance.

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Participant: Stephen Carson
MIT OpenCourseWare
Location: USA / Worldwide
Source: 2005 Tech Awards Laureate

OCW provides educators, students, and self-learners worldwide with access to MIT educational materials that may be used, copied, and modified for non-commercial purposes.

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Participant: Graham Macmillan
VisionSpring (formerly Scojo Foundation)
Location: Worldwide
Source: World Bank Development Marketplace

Scojo provides low cost reading glasses through a micro-franchising, “business in a box” business model.  Its products promise to eliminate disruption to the livelihoods of weavers, tailors, and artisans caused by presbyopia—a condition that effects most adults after age 35.

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Participant: Claudia Schauer
Sprinkles Global Health Initiative
Location: Canada / Worldwide
Source: SocialEdge

 

Sprinkles improves health and well-being of women and children worldwide by enabling the home-fortification of foods through the distribution of packets containing a blend of nutrients in powder form which can be sprinkled onto food.  Product efficacy has been certified through peer- reviewed research with contributes to the on-going support of donor agencies.

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Participant: Liza Kimbo
Sustainable Healthcare Foundation
Location: Kenya
Source: International Finance Corporation, World Bank

 Establishes for-profit clinics in rural and urban slum areas to provide access to skilled nursing health services and low cost generic drugs utilizing a sustainable franchise model to achieve scale and wider market reach.

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Participant: Bal Joshi
Thamel Dot Com Pvt. Ltd
Location: Nepal
Source: Social Edge

Thamel’s internet portal creates a channel for Nepal’s Diaspora to make low cost remittances and other gifts to family and friends and, at the same time, this portal makes Nepalese products and services accessible to Nepal migrant workers around the world.  Products available through this portal are sourced, produced and delivered locally within Nepal.

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Participant: Marc Krizack
Whirlwind Wheelchair International
Location: USA / Worldwide
Source: 2004 Tech Awards Laureate

Whirlwind designs wheelchairs that can be built and maintained through a small to medium scale production network in developing countries.  In addition to standardized designs it provides training and support to the local businesses that build these wheelchairs and social marketing support through the independent living movement in developing countries.