1. Potential for GSBI to Scale Social Enterprises that Use Mobile ICT Haley Harada, Finance Major
The Global Social Benefit Institute (GSBI) in-residence accelerator is one of the Miller Center’s social enterprise capacity building programs that facilitates social change by scaling the missions of select organizations.
Mobile ICT in the Developing World
Lives Impacted, 2016 Cohort
Implications
Solid lines indicate ICT enabled enterprises
GSBI leverages and aligns technological and entrepreneurial innovation in the Silicon Valley to effectively accelerate ICT enabled social enterprises, evidenced by lives impacted data. By aligning technology with innovative business models to increase base of pyramid accessibility and consumer engagement, GSBI increases enterprises’ scaling potential and contributes to behavioral shifts that reduce poverty and exclusion in the developing world.
Acknowledgements
Keith Warner, Advisor
Al Bruno, Reader
m-health, m-agriculture, m-finance, and m-learning increase consumer engagement are the highest potential applications for the use of Mobile ICT in poverty reduction.
References
Images and Data from the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship & European Parliamentary Research Services