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infoDev’s Mobile Startup Camp was designed to accelerate the growth of early-stage mobile entrepreneurs from emerging and frontier markets. The five-day program of lectures and hands on workshops provided participants with an opportunity to refine their product strategies, business models and marketing pitches, sharpen their negotiating skills, and network with investors and peers.

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Art of KE eLearning Course

Knowledge exchange, or peer-to-peer learning, is a powerful way to share, replicate, and scale-up what works in development. Development practitioners increasingly seek to learn from the experiences of others who have gone through, or are going through similar challenges. They want to have ready access to practical knowledge and solutions in order to enhance their confidence, conviction, and skills to customize the solutions to their own context.

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E-Learning: Opportunities & Challenges

In this honest and focused interview, Michael Trucano, World Bank Senior ICT & Education Policy Specialist, calls on the e-Institute to be critical of itself as often as it succeeds in order to stay competitive.

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Virtual Learning Helps Catalyze Solutions for Better Urban Management in China

On November 27, 2012 the World Bank Group and the Government of China launched a new knowledge hub to spread practical knowledge from China’s successes in reducing urban-poverty. This story outlines how exactly this was done.

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UPCOMING COURSES

Business Models, Social Entrepreneurship, Innovation

Innovative Business Models for Better Impact

Social entrepreneurs often neglect to operationalize essential business functions for their innovations. Not having a formal business model can prevent entrepreneurs from acquiring capital and maximizing the scale and impact of their efforts. This course will help social entrepreneurs formalize and validate their business models.

January 12, 2015 - February 07, 2015

Language: English

Pathways to Development

Policies for Growth

The story of growth and poverty reduction is much debated in an ever changing world. The challenge in the 1960s was how to lift low-income countries from a low-growth trap to a reasonably high-growth path. Fifty years later, many fast-growing economies have emerged, but more than a hundred countries have been unable to move away from low-growth and high-poverty traps.

January 12, 2015 - February 06, 2015

Language: English

Health Systems Policy Reform

Basics of Health Economics

Health economics play an important role in making health systems more effective, efficient, and equitable. This e-Learning course provides the foundations for participants to better understand health economics and its potential contribution to decision making in the health sector.

January 14, 2015 - February 18, 2015

Language: English