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How might we use social business to improve health in low-income communities?
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Evaluation
What an amazing Concepting round! We were so excited about the diversity of your ideas and now it's time for you to help us with Evaluation. As we wrapped up the last phase, our OpenIDEO team met with Grameen Creative Lab for a cross-continent discussion between Colombia and California. Together we reviewed all of the concepts and chatted about the different challenges and opportunities the Grameen team is facing. The big question we wanted to answer? Which concepts have the best chance to significantly impact life and health in Caldas? To learn more about our process and check out the list of Honorable Mention concepts – head over to Field Notes. We're super psyched to unveil our Top 20 Shortlist and hope you enjoy reading through them in detail to evaluate them.
Franchise Health Clinic Network
Franchise Health Clinic Network is a franchise system of distribution of health clinic centered around qualified nurses as entrepreneurs in remote areas in Caldas. The health clinic serves as a basic clinic and drug stores, while maintaining a hig...
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Architecture Commons
July 03, 2011
11:11PM |
Mobile phones for on demand information dissemination
With 95% penetration, mobile phones are the most lucarative tool for information dissemination.
Design menu based expert system (using protocols like USSD) which gives authentic information on queries ranging from what do for infant's rehydration...
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Manish K Singh
July 12, 2011
11:37PM |
Together we can Grow our Future - Planting Trees as a social business.
The planting trees concept is based on the Green Belt movement. Through planting trees
women can form a community, make money, improve nutrition and educate one another.
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Simone Chua
July 12, 2011
09:44AM |
A low-cost telemedicine solution that connects rural patients to urban doctors
ReMeDi (Remote Medical Diagnostics) is a solution kit that connects rural patients with urban doctors at a low cost. Trained operators at Internet kiosks transmit the patients’ readings to doctors who make diagnosis and issue prescriptions. ReMeDi...
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Krassimira Iordanova
June 28, 2011
05:25PM |
Market Vendors-Clinicians Cooperative
An alliance between market vendors and clinicians to increase healthcare access to Caldas' rural populations.
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Simon Morfit
June 28, 2011
08:01PM |
Juntos vivimos mejor!
"Together we live better" is a brand that will bring awareness, education and first aid medicines to Caldas' families when and where they need it.
It is comprised of four interconnected social businesses to provide population reach but...
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Juan Cajiao
June 29, 2011
10:41PM |
Cartoneros – Cardboard Furniture
Collect and recycle cardboard into low-cost, high-design furniture.
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Trenton DuVal
July 13, 2011
07:54PM |
'Crecer y Ahorrar' / Grow & Save
Child Growth Monitoring Chart + Rewards Loyatly Card = A pharmacy rewards program allowing mothers to buy cheaper food and medical supplies for their babies while monitoring their growth (UPDATED!).
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Sarah Fathallah
July 06, 2011
06:34PM |
Roving Healthcare Workers
Train a group of people in the basics of healthcare for issues common in the area, including nutrition and reproductive health. Provide them with the basic items that would be frequently needed such as nutrition packs, specialized baby formula, va...
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Cara O'Shell
July 08, 2011
10:05PM |
Food subscription + Food insurance
Families subscribe to a monthly plan of healthy and varied food. They pay a fixed daily fee and get a box of food every day. The bulk-buying savings are saved in a food insurance fund, guaranteeing a proper nutrition for the family even in hard ti...
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Victor Perl
July 01, 2011
04:40PM |
Amigas de la salud - Juntos vivimos mejor
"Much of what a doctor or nurse now does can be done as effectively, or sometimes even more effectively, by community health workers operating in the community, and providing home-based care."
- Jeffrey SachsEconomist and Director of the Earth I...
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Juan Cajiao
July 03, 2011
05:34PM |
The Community Nutrition Center
A place were you can touch, see and feel nutrition.
A nutrition center that provides the community low-cost food and nutricional education to optimize their resources and get healthy nutrition habits.
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Luz Alba Gallo
July 01, 2011
09:00PM |
Sustainable Nutrition program from the farmers to the farmers
Create a strong community leader, engaging the wealthy farmers and bringing education about sustainability and nutrition we can improve health and increase the incomes of the poor farmers.
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Maria Palacio
July 10, 2011
05:59AM |
Radio-Hotline
I imagine local radio stations could be popular. I have the idea of using a radio program as answering lots of questions from people, will have big benefit and largest spread in a region where there is large distances to travel.
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Johan Löfström
July 11, 2011
09:16AM |
Madre Cuidadora: a Mentor / Village Phone / Vendor lady
Instead of having a vending machine selling all sorts of healthcare-related items (diapers, baby food and clothes, birth kits, cell phones, etc.), we could imagine using community mothers or mentors, or even health care workers. This way, we could...
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Sarah Fathallah
July 13, 2011
09:05PM |
Mobile training camp for Entrepreneurship
Everyone in Caldas is an Entrepreneur, that's something we learned in the inspiration phase. What if there was a service that trained people in the skills to turn those entrepreneurial instincts into viable social businesses?
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Nathan Waterhouse
June 28, 2011
04:08PM |
Construction Outreach Caldas - Building safely in a bottom-up network
Construction Outreach Caldas (COC) is a small mobile team of design-builders that travel around the region of Caldas to tackle construction-related problems together with the community. COC operates like a cooperative, with members participating a...
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Architecture Commons
July 01, 2011
11:12PM |
Importing Affordable Medical Devices
This is basically an idea for an import business specialized in affordable and low cost medical devices (ranging from simple thermometers to potentially more sophisticated diagnostic imaging equipment). The idea is to import such medical devices a...
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Sarah Fathallah
July 11, 2011
09:03PM |
THE FAMOUS BAZZAR of CALDAS
This is an idea developed based on Architecture Commons' "Community Kitchen Caldas - eating inexpensive and healthy meals together!"
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Sean Bunjamin
July 11, 2011
10:20PM |
Create mushroom-growing kits from excess coffee pulp
Based on the idea of Back to the Roots mushroom kits, I propose training rural Caldas residents to prepare mushroom-growing kits from leftover coffee pulp that could be sold to their local community.
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Russell Jelinek
June 28, 2011
04:05PM |
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