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Adesina Iluyemi's Discussions
Welcome, Adesina Iluyemi (NEPAD Council)!
Latest Activity
Business Innovation to Fight Climate Change and Poverty at Royal Society
December 2, 2009 from 5pm to 6:30pm
Royal Society, London, 5.00 - 6.30pm (Registration from 4.30), followed by reception.
This major event in London will focus on successful business innovations for the global South that help mitigate climate change and its impact on the poor. Wh...
Hi Adesina,
Techonoly that is sustainable is good for Afric to develop and just as you have put it, Consideration needs to be put on sustainability. The question would be how do we ensure design and development of sustainable technology reaches A...
Dear Max,
It seems to me you are suggesting that poor people should not have electricity unless they can make it themselves.
You referred to a website where they have solar cookers etc NOT electricity
Photovoltaic... needs materials and parts that are transported from elsewhere, after having been made by industrial infrastructures. Effective does not have to mean most manufacture heavy latest space age techniques. The brilliant thing in photovo...
Putting market access into practice: reaching the bottom billion through corporate supply and distribution chains at The Commonwealth Club
April 21, 2009 from 5:30pm to 7pm
Putting market access into practice: reaching the bottom billion through corporate supply and distribution chains Tuesday, 21 April, 17.30 to 19.00 followed by reception (Registration from 17.00).
Event sponsored by
Businesses are expanding th...
Most of the technologies discussed here seem to be for the less-than-poor!
I have been developing low cost solar pv for the poorest people for many years.
One application allows those in remote areas to charge a mobile using a simple solar pv dev...
Adesina thanks for the mobile for health care document. I can't wait to see the innovative ideas for helping the base of the pyramid get better healthcare.
One idea that I'm working on is to identify practical solutions that can be used to create local businesses, then replicated. Some groups are already working on a number of solutions - the issue is to regroup and consolidate the ideas and then wor...
Profile Information
- Source of my passion about the power of business to fight poverty
- I am an entrepreneur, I am a social entrepreneur, I work for a non-government organisation, I am just interested
- Industry:
- Africa's Development/www.nepadcouncil.org
- About my work:
- Adesina Iluyemi is a dentist by profession. He is a member of New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Council and a Young Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, England. Also the co-Founder of SINSEPROD LLP, a technology and service start-up in the UK. My interests are Africa's sustainable socio-economic development. Also in developing and implementing sustainable BOP business models for technology-enabled economic growth and micro-industrailization, SMEs, rewenable energies, Global Health, Open hardware and software. Specifically towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Africa. I am presently undergoing a PhD research degree programme exploring policy and change management issues in the implementation and use of mobile/wireless information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the health systems reform and development in Africa.
- Interested in:
- Professional Contacts, Potential Partners, Learning about work in the field, Sharing resources, New ventures, Expertise requests, Career Opportunities, Potential Clients, Potential Investors
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 1:10am on February 8, 2009,
Nathan Ketsdever said…
- Enjoyed the conversation in the forum, if you want to connect on Linked In, feel free to add me:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanketsdever
I would have emailed, but I don't see that option. Would love to hear what you're doing or studying in the mobile space in the forum.
- At 6:07pm on June 4, 2008,
Adesina Iluyemi said…
- How do we make the people in developing countries have access to the global goods of ICTs. There are many ways to achieve this but having access to a computer is surely an important one.
A solution to achieve this is probably a business one. An emerging trend is the low-cost technologies concept that is currently exemplified by the “low-cost laptops” projects. This trend catalyzed by Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC has started a revolution just within three years of its inception. OLPC, an educational open source project for school children in developing countries has encouraged commercial successes such as the Asus Eee PC and the Intel Classmate. At my last count there are over 20 low-cost laptop projects in the pipe-line. Even MNCs such as Sony, Dell and Acer have joined the race to serve the BOP market.
I believe that every single individual in this world should have a personal access to the internet, and low-cost laptops I believe should this possible. Even if everybody cannot afford one at the current prices ($200-$400), professionals like health workers in developing countries hitherto unable to access medical research material for patient care should be able to afford to buy one.
But in order to achieve the goal of one-laptop for everyone, efforts should be applied to drive more product, pricing and process innovations so that they can become more affordable.
- At 5:36pm on March 27, 2008,
Adesina Iluyemi said…
- The concept of Global Corporate Citizenship as recenlty elaborated by Prof Schwab at the last Davos Summit should be adopted by private business organizations in developing countries. Efforts should be made by them to adopt the BOP principles in tackling health, educational and social problems in these regions.
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