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eCommerce Co-operatives for Emerging Markets

Friday, December 18, 2009

This is my final paper for the Master of Communication in Digital Media program’s Emerging Markets in Digital Media class, taught by the insightful and capable Anita Verna Crofts. I had a lot of time for research and preparation in writing this paper, and was drawing on topics in which I have considerable professional experience [...]

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Flash Presentation: eCommerce Cooperatives for Emerging Markets

Friday, December 18, 2009

This animation illustrates a simplified hypothetical case for using mobile phones to provide the payment and distribution infrastructure for ecommerce consumer cooperatives in emerging markets. For more on this proposed business model, please read: eCommerce Co-operatives for Emerging Markets.

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Can the Middle Path Lead to the Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid?

Friday, November 6, 2009

In his article, “Connecting a Nation: Roshan Brings Communications Services to Afghanistan,” Karim Khoja provides a fascinating first-person account of the challenges of introducing a mobile phone network to Afghanistan. What little communications infrastructure the country had did not survive decades of war, so when Khoja arrived in 2002 he was part of an effort [...]

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Two for One: Could eCommerce Coops Help Developing Countries? What’s the Point of Computers in the Classroom Anyway?

Friday, October 9, 2009

This is my Reflection Paper for week two of the Emerging Markets in Digital Media class. Free PDF download: The Case of the Occasionally Cheap Computer: Low-cost Devices and Classrooms in the Developing World In the first three chapters of “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits,” C. K. Prahalad [...]

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