Article series for Involution Studios, Boston
Africa: The Next Frontier
From OLPC to VC: Africa leapfrogs the digital divide
Challenges present opportunities: innovation in Africa
Mobile in Africa: from SMS to Android
Software in Africa: More, better, different
Investing in Africa: Challenges and constraints
Afrinnovator
Systems Thinking Applied To Why M-Pesa’s Economic Impact and Wealth Creation Lessons Affects the Ecosystem and Not Just the Bottom of the Pyramid
Looking Forward: Where Next Generation Innovation is Coming From
Africa: Opportunity Waits
Podcasts
The Digital Life is an online radio show that explores important, timely topics in the world of digital design and technology. Created by Involution Studios, a top software design agency whose clients include Apple, Microsoft and Oracle.
episode 23
April 26th, 2011
Technology and Emerging Markets. Special Guests Joshua Kauffman and Niti Bhan. Bull Session and It’s News to Me.
Video
Life is Hard - A Better World by Design conference 2008 (21 mins)
More From Niti Bhan's library:-
Core77 – Design magazine and resource
Emerging Markets as a Source of Disruptive Innovation: 5 Case Studies – February 2010
The 5D’s of BoP Marketing: Touchpoints for a holistic, human-centered strategy – January 2009
Design for the Next Billion Customers (with Dave Tait) – April 2008
Ecodesign, Ecolabels and the Environment: How Europe is redesigning our footprint on earth – August 2007
Putting the “Desi” in Design: Why Indian designers are uniquely equipped for emerging markets – February 2006
Shopping for Innovation: Hiring a design firm – A primer (with Steve Portigal) – November 2005
Seismic Shift: Rethinking the Design Industry – April 2005
While you were out: changes in the global design industry – December 2004
also, clogging on the main page since 2004 ~ view all posts here
AIGA Gain Journal of Business & Design, ICOGRADA, AGDA and ReBrand.com
Lessons from Walmart: 5 common mistakes when brands cross borders (with Manuel Toscano) – Late 2006
PDF version from ReBrand100.com
NextBillion.net – Development through Enterprise
Guest Author ~ view all articles here
BusinessWeek – business magazine
India, A New Frontier For Innovation And Design – speech draft for CII/NID Design Summit – November, 2006 (republished by Bruce Nussbaum on Design)
Brand Magic in India (with Brad Nemer) – May 2006
A Competitive Nation, by Design – December 2005
New Design Magazine, UK (print publication)
From Top to Bottom (with Dave Tait) – February 2008 (Emerging Markets special issue)
Changing Times (PDF partial) – 2006 (commissioned for fee) courtesy the Daily Dump
Effective Executive, India (print)
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid Begins with Understanding : Targeting the BoP Customer (PDF)
Blogs
Founder, RECulture – a global group blog documenting the informal economy based on recycle, reuse, repurpose, resell and repair around the developing world.
Co-Founder, Does Size Matter? 2005 -2007 – started as thinking grounds with co-author Steve Portigal for the “Shopping for Innovation” article linked above in Core77. Grew into group blog which gave its description so:
A conversation on the business of design, design firms, collaboration, whether large full service companies are better than smaller specialized firms in a loosely knit alliance, sourcing design, innovation, strategy and the answer to “Where do we go to buy some innovation?”Founder and owner, Perspective, Jugaad, Perspective 2.0 2005 – 2010 ~ originally available as www.nitibhan.com
Contributor, CPH127 2005 – 2006
Community member, Core77 and nextbillion.net
On twitter, @nitibhan
Others.
(this page is a work in progress, bookmark for ongoing updates)
