If you want to update yourself on the current status of ColaLife and some of the ups and downs we’ve encountered along the way, please consider watching this TED-style talk. The ColaLife Story from Concept to Scale-up – innovation in the real world. >> View video on YouTube To keep up to date moving forward […]
Excellent ColaLife article in Development Asia
Yesterday (15/2/12) I received an email from the journalist Andrew Marshall to say that the ColaLife article that he had been researching for several months had been published in Issue 12 of Development Asia. The article starts on page 50 of the Scribd document here (and displayed on the blog below – note that it […]
From targets to deadlines
A diagram from the description of the mobile phone elements of the ColaLife Operation Trial by Mobile Transactions In the last week we’ve moved from talking about targets to using the word DEADLINE as we seek to ‘close the deal’ and complete the co-designed plan for the ColaLife Operational Trial by 12 June. There I’ve […]
Cape Town Diary | Day 2 | Social Enterprise Summit
The Africa Investor Summit on Social Investing and Social Enterprise in Africa (yes that is Prime Minister, The Right Honourable, Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe with South Africa’s Minister for Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel, and Aeneas Chuma, Resident Co-ordinator, United Nations) Pitching the ColaLife idea to around 120 people, all interested in Social Entrepreneurship in Africa, was a great […]