India and Nigeria : Interviews social entrepreneurs

Good Morning friends,

How are you?

The benefit Incubator Social Services in the World ( GSBI ) is the program sponsored by the Center for Science,Technology and Society at Santa Clara University. It works with social entrepreneurs to give them motivation to them and their organizations.

From the GSBI, the Global Social Benefit Incubator and the Next Billion Blog comes a serie of video interviews of social entrepreneurs meeting for the Global Social Benefit Incubator.

The first person interviewed was Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu

who runs a small business of radio for rural states in Nigeria, providing poor farmers in rural communities and isolated rural radio full of information and sustainable and developmen in local languages.

Another example is Sish Manoj is  Indian, but has a different vision of affordable energy for rural communities.

Post originally published  Juliana Rincon Parra

“Knowledge from social entrepreneurs”

Best regards,

Mireya

Ability to understand others realities

Good Morning friends,

Today I want to stop and make a post for you, a post thanking all users who daily to visit me.

After several months that I’m writing this blog every time I fell better.

Actually I think about the possibility to make some changes on design,categories of blog. What do you think about it? Comments are welcome.

Initially established with the idea of talking about the behaviors in the global economic and social in Latin America,Africa and India. Now I think that I have to  specialize more it  and approach to the entrepreneurs and international cooperation in these continents.

We can change things up a bit  in this world each in its context.

See the video  ..

Best regards,

Mireya

Contest of bSherpas -Entrepreneur of the month

Good Morning friends,

With my first coffee in the morning,

bSherpas is a company formed by a group of people, highly committed to  developing or emerging areas.

It is an online platform where entrepreneurs have a presence. The entrepreneur explained that the need for developing their project, the person interested in helping an entrepreneur can form part of your team interacting through different tools.

Actually bSherpas organize the contest the entrepreur of the month. The contest is based  to find that is the best business idea in India, according to users.

For more information on participation requirements and prizes.

You can be the entrepreneur of the month!

Best regards,

Mireya

India emerging power

Good Morning friends,

With my first coffee in the morning …

The Republic of India is after China the most populous country on the planet about 1200 million inhabitants with a poupulation growth of 1.4 mill. and an expanding middle class similar to the total population of the United States.

India today is part of the so-called emerging economies, economies are seen as low-medium income per capital, including among others Mexico,Argentina, Brazil, Chile, South Korea, China, Thailand, Taiwan and India mainly. Represent 80% of world population and 20% of the global economy.

Accelerating economic growth in India has been sustainable in recent years , the only country in the world for over a decade of sustained growth of at least 10 %.

It requires a balanced approach to providing security and reducing poverty and improving the quality of life of farmers. India along with China have many opportunities for investment.

Foreign inventment in India has increased considerably. India was in 2007 that endet with investments of approximately 20mill pains while in 2006 reached 15.7 thousand pains.

India like emerging power

Best regards,

Mireya

Development Marketplace for entrepreneurs around the world

Good Morning friends,

With my first coffee in the morning …

For the  entrerpreneurs with fewer resources is one opportunity the development Marketplace, it is global competition in which there are winners that take some prizes that will develop your project.

The world’s development is an initiative of the World Bank to promote innovative ideas and commnunity solutions.

It is a program of competitive grants administered by the World Bank and supported by various partners that identifies  projects in their early stages and have great potential for positive impact on development.

The  world’s development in 2008 was a gift that is carried out in collaboration with the team for agriculture and rural development, in which there were 16 winners  from Latin America, Caribbean, East Asia, Pacific, Africa South of the Sahara , South Asia, India Mexico, Ecuador and Vietnam.

The next proposals will be announced in February . For more information on the competition website    www.developmentmarketplace.org

Develop Marketplace is a resource to enable the development of your business plan

Best regards,

Mireya

Social entrepreneurs

Good Morning friends,

How are you? With my first coffee of the morning,I want to finish the week telling the story of a social entrepreneur’s the example Jaume Sanllorente founder of “Smiles of Bombay“.

The history of  Jaume Sanllorente has its roots in a trip to India,Spanish journalist from this trip build “Smiles of Bombay”.  He is a  young man committed to the cause,with the world.

After seeing near Bombay many needs,especially those of the untouchables decided to invest all their savings put in a small orphanage,embarking on a peaceful struggle against poverty in Bombay and which continues day after day.

A founder of the ONG “Smiles of Bombay” is working with the poorest communities,dedicated to the care and education of orphans and poor families from the streets of the Indian city of Bombay.

“The measures of the ability of human beings and our responsability before poverty is more than you think”

Best regards,

Mireya

The big emerging markets are being rapidly strengthened

Good Morning friends,

How are you today? Thanks to reforms in the business rules are being built businesses in some countries.

According with the study performed by Doing Business ,study based on the classification of countries in reforms to improve the creation of enterprises through on 10 indicators on business regulations. Analyze the time and expense that is used to meet the requierements established by the government for the setting up of a company, its operations, its market activity, their taxation and its closure.

The report stresses that the return on equity is greater in countries undergoing reforms. Investors are looking for growth potential and we are in the developing economies,big emerging markets are reforming with acceleration. China,Egypt,India,Indonesia,Turkey and Vietnam have made progress in the ease of doing business.

Leaders in Africa are Ghana and Kenya, while reforms in other countries in the region have been produced in an enequal way. Highlight Mauritius,Madagascar and Mozambique. In Latin America highlights Colombia as an important reformer of positive changes for improving the system of doing business,followed by Guatemala,Honduras and the Dominican Republic.

” Emerging market reforms undertaken to facilitate the opening of a business”

Best regards,

Mireya

Entrepreneurs: Women’s Initiatives

Good Morning Friends,

How are you? With my first coffee of the morning was watching videos of women entrepreneurs who fight  to do what they like.

Women with courage, believe in themselves, a principle not ever go away, the illusion of having begun.

Sometimes not have the best circumstances for to do a business project in Africa, India or Latinoamerica go forward, are women with an unbeatable spirit who would help generate wealth and create jobs in the region.

In these continents there are significant business opportunities in business creation will enable sustainable development in the continents. 

“There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” Henry Ford

 Best regards, Mireya

Where to Invest in 2009?

Good Morning Friends,

Investing abroad? Yes, but in which countries, this depends on many factors but the fact that the new emerging countries will lead the integration of more than 2500 million people of the global economic.

There are experts who do not hesitate to draw big four countries: Brazil, China, India and Russia as the four paradises in which foreign capital is extremely important advantages for investing. There are also four countries that are known to be key players in globalization.

 

Countries which have taken significant steps to improve their attractiveness for investors are Colombia, Costa Rica, Ghana, Mozambique and Vietnam, prices are rising but are still many opportunities.

 

The case of India a country with an unprecedented momentum of growth, which presents a very favorable factors.
– Sound macroeconomic policies
– Concern for access to credit
– Fight active government against poverty
– High investment in education.

Overall investment in that country will you invest?

Best regards,

Mireya

 

India: The story of a social entrepreneur

Good Morning friends,

In this morning taking my first cafe in the company of you, I would like to tell the story of Javed Abidi a social entrepreneur. Javec Abidi spent a year and a half struggling to believe a law that recognizes the rights of disabled in India.

Javed Abidi, affected at birth with a spinal malady and confined to the wheelchair by medical negligence, is working to provide political visibility and economic opportunities for disabled persons.

 The activist was elected as Partner of Ashoka in 1998, shortly after becoming its proyect in the National Center for Promotion of Employment for People Disabled. Javed Abidi is a social entrepreneur with revolutionary ideas; a social entrepreneurship is based on creative thinking and perseverance.

“If you believe in something must be done”

Best regards,

Mireya