Fifteen Innovators Championing Global Development

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In a world of incessant iPhone updates, it can be difficult to remember that most of the world struggles to access basic energy and technology needs. Brilliant agents of social, economic, and political change work across the globe to address big problems, but they sometimes lack the tools necessary to move forward. The annual PopTech Social Innovation Fellows actively work around the globe to address these needs. PopTech selects 10 to 20 innovators that are creating drastic positive change in fields like health care, energy, development, and social change. Fellows are found within for-profit and nonprofit companies that have the potential for extreme growth.

Scan through this slideshow to discover more about fourteen companies whose leaders were chosen as 2011 PopTech Social Innovation Fellows. Their projects range from mobile insurance and monitoring of small-farmer’s crops in Kenya to reuniting refugees with their families and friends through a social media site similar to Facebook. The fellows will participate in PopTech’s thought leadership conference held Oct. 19-22 in Camden, Maine.

Photos courtesy of PopTech

Nina Lincoff
Editorial Intern
Jillian Anthony
Writer

Posted in: Environment,; Technology,; Business

Tags: business,; technology,; social enterprise,; poptech,; socialenterprise

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