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A Global Opportunity for Significant Positive Change: Combining Socially Beneficial Applications with Mobile Communications & Tele-Mentoring |
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Seek funding through ‘investment marketplace’ websites such as myc4.com, kiva.org and bidnetwork.org |
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Complete Self-study Business program offered by myownbusiness.com with assistance of a mentor |
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Example: Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women Initiative: 10000women.org |
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Websites with directories of NGO’s and banks that offer micro-credit: |
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Example Free Training Resources and Tools: - Encyclopedia: wikipedia.org - School Textbooks: en.wikibooks.org - Operating Systems www.edubuntu.com - Product Designs: other90.cooperhewitt.org - Infrastructure Designs: www.appropedia.org - Online Toolkits: www.openworld.com - Tele-Work Directory: virtualmarketopener.com - Water Related: www.livingwatersintl.org - Entrepreneurship: www.cneonline.org - Financial Services Portal: www.cgap.org - Encyclopedia: en.wikipedia.org - English Course: www.1-language.com - Educational Video Lectures: videolectures.net |
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Free online translating services. Examples: translate.google.com |
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Real-time language translation services to reduce the language barrier. Example: transclick.com |
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Example: CharityHelp International child sponsorship program |
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Businesses launched or Expanded |
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Receive funding from investors, banks or granting institutions |
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Seek funding for business plan |
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Prepare business plan with the assistance of a mentor |
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Apply to business education programs |
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Develop Micro-Business and obtain funding from NGO’s or banks providing Micro-Credit |
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Enable mobile banking via Smart Phone |
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It is projected that one billion people will use Mobile Banking in 5 years. Example: roshan.af |
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Top performers in Micro-Business are encouraged to further develop their business skills and grow their businesses |
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Complete business program offered by available education institutions |
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Network participants with supporters around the world |
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Provide laptops, connect to the internet using a Smartphone |
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Provide Smart Phones with Internet capability |
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Provide basic cell phones |
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Reported Growth: One billion phones sold worldwide in the past 2 Years |
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Supporting and educating children |
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Talking Dictionaries for Smart Phones. Example: lingvosoft.com |
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Participants can be mentored and/or supported via the internet using smart phones Example: CharityHelp International Networking and Support Program |
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Seek funding from commercial banks, development banks, micro-finance banks, NGO’s, foundations, and/or governments Example; NGO’s providing capital and tech. assistance: |
