Part I of this blog post introduced the Bio.Diaspora technology, which tracks the spread of infectious diseases using international flight data and is transitioning from a grant-funded model to an earned-revenue model. As a business with inherent positive social impact, it may qualify for impact investments as well. However, it is still early days; this post explains how MaRS Innovation is helping maximize the potential of this project.
A few days from now on Halloween – possibly as you are handing out candy to young trick-or-treaters – the number of people on earth will surpass seven billion. And as the world’s population rises, our global village becomes smaller and smaller. Today, more than two billion travelers board commercial flights every year, making the world both highly interconnected and highly interdependent. And this is not just referring to the global interdependence of financial markets, but rather, global interdependence around the threat of dangerous infectious diseases.
SocialFinance.ca produces a weekly round up featuring social finance related news, insights, job openings, and events. We source the content for these round ups from Twitter, an RSS reader, and directly from our community of social finance practitioners. Below is our round up for the week of October 17, 2011.
SocialFinance.ca produces a weekly round up featuring social finance related news, insights, job openings, and events. We source the content for these round ups from Twitter, an RSS reader, and directly from our community of social finance practitioners. Below is our round up for the week of October 3, 2011.
SocialFinance.ca produces a weekly round up featuring social finance related news, insights, job openings, and events. We source the content for these round ups from Twitter, an RSS reader, and directly from our community of social finance practitioners. Below is our round up for the week of September 12, 2011.
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