Development Marketplace : A Sillicon Valley for Development

In 1999, as news of protesters being subdued with pepper spray in Seattle at the WTO Ministerial Conference came drifting in, we sat explaining our plans for the World Bank's first Development Marketplace to a senior member of the International Finance Corporation's innovation team.

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Main Author: Kuraishi, Mari
Format: Journal Article biblioteca
Published: 2010-07
Subjects:business plan, cell phones, cultural norms, digital divide, idea, ideas, innovation, innovations, institution, invention, lender of last resort, mobile device, networks, result, Silicon, social networks, structural adjustment, user, users, web,
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6065
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Summary:In 1999, as news of protesters being subdued with pepper spray in Seattle at the WTO Ministerial Conference came drifting in, we sat explaining our plans for the World Bank's first Development Marketplace to a senior member of the International Finance Corporation's innovation team.