BoP Learning Labs Videos
"So beyond greening is all about next generation inherently clean, sustainable technology and serving the underserved. Those become the key strategies for tomorrow..."
"A key when it comes to beyond greening and being able to land it on the ground successfully, in my view, is what I call getting to the, even the next generation of beyond, beyond greening would be what I call becoming indigenous..."
"And so the best way that we can think about beyond greening is to do it as a co-creation process that rather than simply trying to deploy, right, kind of design and deploy, we think more about getting on the ground, developing a relationship, learning and understanding and then jointly developing new businesses and solutions from that..."
"It is, that appropriate technology is still a term that gets used that, to me one of the distinctions between this, the idea that I'm talking about here and the old idea, I shouldn't say old, but the 70s notion of appropriate technology, implicit in the appropriate technology movement was low tech and that appropriate technology meant low tech, simple, you know, cheap and it was always assumed that in order for it to be simple and cheap and usable and durable, it had to be low tech..."
"The next one to shatter I think is this idea that somehow the only way that we can really be local, really be native to a place is with low tech and with just locally based NGOs and with small scale companies..."
"These are the big problems that need to be solved and it is not clear that government is going to be able to take this on by themselves. That's not clear at all..."
"It began to occur to us that, well wow... you know, I mean what's missing and what's really needed is how does the corporate sector begin to really think about the actual bottom of the income pyramid..."
"We kind of made a decision that we were going to refer to it as the base of the pyramid starting around 2000 and 2001 simply because you know, you get push back about this idea, the bottom of the pyramid, sounds kind of pejorative..."
"So already we're beginning to see backlash on this idea which should be totally predictable. In fact we anticipated it going back 3-4 years with this base of the pyramid protocol that I mentioned earlier..."
"So I think what makes this appealing to people is that they can actually see where the enterprise based approach you know, through an actual investment that's profit oriented, I mean there's ... imagine the world's large corporations of the world dedicating 5% of their investment capital in this..."