Appropriate IT sponsors the Information & Communication Technologies for International Development (ICT4ID) learning network. June’s ICT4ID meetup topic was Technology Transformations for the Base of the Pyramid (BoP). A few additional research resources on the topic:

Meeting Notes

• Jon Camfield’s notes from the day over at his blog: Technology Transformations for the Base of the Pyramid by Al Hammond

Blog Posts & Presentations

• Our guest speaker Allen Hammond’s five part series at NextBillion.net on Taking Base of the Pyramid Strategies To Scale:
  • Pt.1: An Introduction to Transformative Sector Strategies
  • Pt. 2: Connecting Rural Communities
  • Pt. 3: World-Class Healthcare for the World’s Poor
  • Pt 4: Building New Business DNA for the BoP
  • Pt. 5: Concluding Thoughts (including links to guest authors who posted their own thoughts on the topic)
• SAP Presentation on Management of cross-sector collaborations (CSC) in BOP-Markets-6 Case Studies
• Adam Falls’ clipcast on BoP ICT
• Viapc-1.com’s list of external resources on ICT

Research Reports

• World Resources Institute:
  • The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid
• LIRNE Asia
  • Telecom use on a Shoestring: a Study of Financially Constrained People in South Asia
  • Teleuse at the Bottom of the Pyramid 2 (Teleuse@BOP2)

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