Posts Tagged ‘energy’

9 Feb

Scratch-offs + cell phones = energy.

Posted by Julie Nordskog in Bottom of the Pyramid, Poverty, Renewable Energy, Rural Development, Social Entrepreneur, Sustainable Development. Tagged: , , , , , , .

Read how this social entrepreneur is bringing a pay-as-you go system to provide the world’s poorest people access to solar energy:

  1. Get a unique code from a scratch-off card.
  2. Send a text with the code to a local service.
  3. The service that will then credit the specified personal solar cell.

From the Sun (Bypassing the Grid) to the BoP Consumer.

Social businesses are reaching and improving the lives of the world’s poorest Continue reading →

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