Tag: learning
What You Didn’t Know about BRAC’s Skills Development Programme!
“Bangladesh needs a more highly-skilled workforce to achieve accelerated economic growth and to reduce our dependence on skilled manpower from neighboring countries.”- Sir Fazle Hasan Abed... Read More
3 things yet to be done for creating a mobile money ecosystem in Bangladesh- Learning from Kenya
By Tanjilut Tasnuba ‘There are more mobile money accounts than adults in Kenya.’-Bill Gates Above quote resonate with the mobile money revolution that is happening in Kenya, a fore frontier nation... Read More
World Bank asks,what’s so great about Social Innovation Labs?
The World Bank runs an online platform called “Striking Poverty” that features discussions on topics that relate to development and poverty reduction. Past topics have included open data... Read More
Exciting changes @ the Social Innovation Lab
Earlier this fall, we received the good news that the Gates Foundation will provide support for the BRAC innovation fund for digital financial services. This initiative will enable the organization ... Read More
The case against data: Part I
Guest post by Toby Norman (PhD candidate in Management Studies at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge). Managers love data. Pre-computer the constraints of crunching too many numbers may ... Read More
October Innovation Forum: Digital BRAC
Innovation Forum 2.0 Digital BRAC? Government initiatives + Technology = Better empowerment and services for the poor Technology can be a powerful, even disruptive force in development. With the ... Read More
Lessons Learned from the Facebook Innovation Competition Winner
This spring, Daniel Ng was the winner of BRAC’s first Facebook Innovation Contest . He visited us in August to work with the Social Innovation Lab on advancing his idea. His reflections are below. Y... Read More
‘Frugal’ gets traction in Bangladesh
Kudos! We are very excited to share Ashek Bhai’s article, published in The Financial Times. Ashek Bhai works at BRAC Enterprises and Investments and was blown away by Dr. Jaideep’s session on Frug... Read More