Talk Archives - Unreasonable

GenderGirl EffectGirl Effect 2014HealthPovertyTalk

How One Woman is Preventing Deaths of Women and Their Newborns

This entrepreneur—widely recognized for her expertise in the field of engineering design for low-cost health products customized for the developing world—designs vital healthcare products for women and girls in poverty.

Unreasonable MediaFebruary 2, 2015

EducationGenderGirl EffectGirl Effect 2014HealthPovertyTalk

The Most Affordable Way to Keep Girls in School

Sanitary pads and reproductive health education are not only a basic human right, but also address root causes of gender inequality.

Unreasonable MediaJanuary 30, 2015

GenderGirl EffectGirl Effect 2014PovertyTalk

How Fashion Fused with Tech is Enabling Thousands of Women in Africa

Giving disadvantaged women and Girl artisans in Africa the ability to sell directly to international customers through their mobile phones.

Unreasonable MediaJanuary 29, 2015

EconomyGenderGirl EffectGirl Effect 2014MobileTalk

Meet Zambia’s Fastest Growing Mobile Money Startup

Fastest growing and #1 mobile money operator in Zambia with a mission to help businesses grow.

Unreasonable MediaJanuary 28, 2015

EnergyGenderGirl EffectGirl Effect 2014PovertyTalk

How One Startup is Bringing Solar to Millions of Families in Poverty

Has sold over 2 million solar home lights to off-grid families… and they are just getting started.

Unreasonable MediaJanuary 27, 2015

EnergyGenderGirl EffectGirl Effect 2014PovertyTalk

How Recycling Agricultural Waste Into Fuel Keeps Girls in School

Converting agricultural waste into clean, inexpensive, cooking fuel for Africans. Supporting over 500 women entrepreneurs and ensuring thousands of Girls stay in school.

Unreasonable MediaJanuary 23, 2015

AfricaEducationGenderGirl EffectGirl Effect 2014MobileTalk

Fastest Growing Mobile Learning Company in Africa Leverages Tech for Girls’ Education

Fastest growing mobile education app in Africa positioned to impact the lives of millions of girls in poverty.

Unreasonable MediaJanuary 22, 2015

EnergyGenderGirl EffectGirl Effect 2014PovertyTalk

It’s Not Just Solar, It’s Modern Energy For Millions Across Africa

Using mobile phones for a pay as you go service to solar electricity for families in extreme poverty. Electrifying over 1,000 homes with solar each month.

Unreasonable MediaJanuary 20, 2015

AfricaEconomyGenderGirl EffectGirl Effect 2014MobileTalk

How Nigeria’s Fastest Growing Mobile Payment Startup is Reaching Girls

The number one mobile payments service—over 1.8M users—in Nigeria, bringing un-banked and under-banked Nigerians into the formal sector.

Unreasonable MediaJanuary 19, 2015

GenderGirl EffectGirl Effect 2014HealthIndiaPovertyTalk

An Issue Keeping Millions of Girls Out of School and How One Venture is Solving It

Watch this talk on how one man is making radically affordable sanitary pads to prevent health complications and school dropouts amongst millions of girls. He's launched over 1500 women owned franchises and he is only beginning.

Unreasonable MediaJanuary 16, 2015

AfricaEducationGirl EffectGirl Effect 2014Talk

How A Kenyan Startup Became the Fastest Growing Chain of Schools on Earth

Educating over 100,000 children for an average of $6 a month. The world’s largest and fastest growing chain of schools.

Unreasonable MediaJanuary 15, 2015

AfricaInstituteInstitute 2014PolicyTalk

Fighting Back Against Sexual Assault in Egypt

The harrowing personal story that prompted Basant Motawi to launch her Cairo-based venture, Aspire, which combats sexual assault in Egypt.

Unreasonable InstituteJuly 30, 2014

EducationInstituteInstitute 2014LegalNegotiationPolicyScalingTalk

Government by the (Connected) People

https://vimeo.com/99292387 On an otherwise reasonable evening in July, more than 1,000 people packed an auditorium…

Unreasonable InstituteJuly 29, 2014

AfricaEmerging MarketsInstituteInstitute 2014TalkTechnology

How Mango Seeds Help Chicken Farmers Cut Costs by a Third

With feed prices accounting for up to 70 percent of Nigerian chicken farmers' overhead, a simple move to UNFIRE feed can mean a 35 percent reduction in overall costs.

Unreasonable InstituteJuly 28, 2014

EnergyInstituteInstitute 2014TalkTechnology

He Builds Houses out of Recycled Plastic

Russian startup Plastica recycles 10 percent of all plastic waste in the million-person city of Volgograd, Russia, where it is based, and turns that plastic into enough bricks, paving tiles, and roof tiles for four homes per month.

Unreasonable InstituteJuly 25, 2014

EducationInstituteInstitute 2014Talk

Their Radical Idea for Transforming High School: Trusting High Schoolers

Ustvarjalnik brings entrepreneurs to high school classrooms and engages students with open-ended assignments aimed at solving real-world challenges. (One example: "Go get your picture taken with the mayor.")

Unreasonable InstituteJuly 24, 2014

BrandingInstituteInstitute 2014PovertyScalingTalk

A Most Relaxing Way to Help a Village

Watch Yellow Leaf Hammocks co-founder Joe Demin talk about the 600-mile taxi ride that led to his company, which is creating sustainable jobs for Thailand's hill tribe communities—by selling some of the most comfortable hammocks in the world!

Unreasonable InstituteJuly 23, 2014

InstituteInstitute 2014Talk

His Competitive Advantage? Employees With Autism

Rising Tide Carwash co-founder and COO Tom D'Eri explains how his company has made a competitive advantage out of the fact that 80 percent of its workforce has autism.

Unreasonable InstituteJuly 22, 2014