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The experiment that I believe will have the greatest impact on the future is the concept of Micro-Loans. The largest purveyor of these loans is Kiva.org. The idea behind micro-loans is small loans, even as small as $25 to help fledgling businesses that can't get loans anywhere else either because of their location, business, the amount they want to borrow, or a host of other reasons. All businesses need loans for various reasons. Some just to buy more products to sell. This allows many…
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I don't have to imagine where I will be in 10 years. I will be doing what I do now. I will be an advocate in politics for Veterans in General and Disabled Veterans in particular. Hopefully I will be a lobbyist in Washington DC, Columbia, SC or a staffer on either the Senate or House Veterans Affairs Committee. I will be living in either Washington DC or in Charleston, SC. As for the Tokyo Food Crisis, it all depends on the US policy in solving the crisis. If they are allies and the US helps,…
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The Social Innovator I chose is 'Aulani Wilhelm who is the founder of Island Water. 'Aulani Wilhelm is also a Stanford Social Innovation Fellow. Island Water helps provide and build fresh water supplies for islands surrounded by salt water. Water is the one thing need to survive by everyone and everything. Most people do not think that water is an issue on islands surrounded by water. However when that island is surrounded by saltwater, it is unusable as drinking water. Desalination methods…
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Provide skills, not just finished technologies. The current revolution in design for developing countries is the notion of co-creation, of teaching the skills necessary to create the solution,
rather than simply providing the solution. By involving the community throughout the design process, you can help equip people to innovate and contribute to the evolution of the product. Furthermore, they acquire the skills needed to create solutions to a much wider variety of problems. They are…
Posted on February 3, 2015 at 3:21am
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