Marco Puccia: Business and Development

In the words of Ricky Ricardo, I’ve got some ’splaining to do! I need to apologize for being MIA lately here on the site! Let me share what I’ve been up to: I came back from the StartingBloc Institute in Boston so inspired and motivated to really “take a chance” and move back to DC without much of a plan (eg....

Just a few weeks ago — Feb 11-15th — I had the great opportunity to join fellow social innovators from around the world at the 2010 StartingBloc Social Innovation Institute in Boston. I absolutely love attending events such as this (including GES, SOCAP, The Feast, and the upcoming SVC/SE Conferences)....

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President Kagame delivered the keynote address at the Assembly of the African Union, 31 January 2010, Addis Ababa

Angola is consistantly ranked as one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. But a recent Economist article suggests that thanks to Angola's extensive oil reserves, things are starting to improve. ...

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame wants to secure a piece of the growing technology market that has already brought so much change to sub-Saharan Africa, and he’s starting young.

TEDxAmsterdam: Mark Kamau from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo. This is such an inspirational story by Mark Kamau, a Kenyan who calls himself the “Slumdog Manager”. Born in the poverty of Kenya’s well-known slums, Kamau emerged as a web designer graduating from the NairoBits pro...gram. He attributes his success story to four principles: He was: Respected Challenged Supported Given Responsibility If we apply these same principles of dignity to “intelligent engagement” rather than the traditional concept of “aid”, we will...

Who else but a group of GenYers would have the audacity to christen a new not-for-profit venture “The Unreasonable Institute?” That’s exactly what Tyler Hartung, Daniel Epstein, Teju Ravilochan, and Vladimir Dubovskiy have done. ...

While cause marketing has been around for some time, crowd-oriented social media initiatives are new. These 5 represent some of the best campaigns to date.

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Regular readers of this blog know that Coca-Cola is one of my favorite companies. Here’s an update on what they are up to in Africa: At Coca-Cola, we believe that the private sector can play a powerful role in reducing poverty – particularly by concentrating on core ope...rations in a profitable but inclusive and responsible way. In an earlier post, I described our commitment, as part of the Business Call to Action ,...