The Daily Entrepreneur: Gates, Friedman, and Ashoka's Great Design

Published February 17, 2009 @ 03:46PM PT

Big names, good advice, and great design abound in today's Daily Entrepreneur:

Bill Gates Wants to Help the Third World with Cellphone Banking: The Gates Foundation is making a healthy ($12.5 million) grant to found the Mobile Money for the Unbanked Initiative to help provide financial services for the "1 billion people in emerging markets today who don’t have a bank account but do have a mobile phone." (via Crunchgear)

The Open-Door Bailout: Thomas Friedman dumps some practical wisdom on us. From a recent column:

All you need to do is grant visas to two million Indians, Chinese and Koreans,” said Shekhar Gupta, editor of The Indian Express newspaper. “We will buy up all the subprime homes. We will work 18 hours a day to pay for them. We will immediately improve your savings rate — no Indian bank today has more than 2 percent nonperforming loans because not paying your mortgage is considered shameful here. And we will start new companies to create our own jobs and jobs for more Americans.” (via Chris Blattman)

An Engaged Workforce: Ruth Smith, a consultant working with the excellent Tom Peters, writes that a recession is the most important time to focus on getting the most out of your employees.

100 Words for 100 Days - Ashoka: Social entrepreneurship networking and support organization extraordinaire Ashoka enters an absolutely fantastic video into media/PR firm MWW's competition for sharing, in 100 words or less, what you want to see in the first days of the new administration. Taking the contest to a new creative level, Ashoka made the video below. Note how simple it is, but how the perfect selection of Djano Reinhardt-esque music and the vibrant colors of the blocks bring it to life. Great job, guys! (Ps, vote for them!)

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On behalf of those of us at Ashoka that worked on the video I'm sorry the yellow blocks are so hard to read! It looked fine up until we uploaded to youtube, the loss of quality created the loss of clarity. Thanks so much for the plug!

Posted by Tom Dawkins on 02/19/2009 @ 12:52PM PT
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Nathaniel is the founding Director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, which works annually with hundreds of students in dozens of countries around the world through curricular programs and student project incubation.