In rural Africa, poor transport costs lives. Drugs cannot be delivered, patients cannot reach health centres and medics cannot send samples to labs for analysis. Riders for Health is changing all this. But can they now set up a new medical transport network in rural Zambia in just six months? Can they meet Alvin Hall’s challenge to import the motorcycles, train the riders, negotiate with the ministry and complete all the legal and business hurdles so quickly?
BBC World News is available via satellite and cable TV (it kicks off on Saturday at 0830 GMT and is repeated Sunday 14th at 1430 and 2130 GMT). The programme is also available via the BBC World News iPhone App and online.
Michael Bayler is an innovation strategist and futurist who knows what happens next in marketing, branding, media and technology. He impressed Florian so much at a Sun Startups event that he invited him to speak at Royal Holloway on January 21st.
For a preview of Mike in action, take a peek at this video from Sun.
The first term is nearly over, but we’ve still a last talk for 2009 and some other useful things, before everyone heads out for a well deserved break. So don’t leave yet, and join us this week for our great Thursday event.
So, what have we got for you this week?
Business Clinic Tuesday, 10am at Careers in Horton
Do you need one to one advice about a business idea? Do you already have a business and need help running it? Is there something you are not sure about?
Come to our drop-in advice surgery, Business Clinic, and receive individual guidance from an experienced adviser. Business Clinic runs every Tuesday from 10am-11am in the Careers Centre, Horton Building. You can book a slot by telephoning Careers on 01784 443073, from 9.30am onwards on the day you wish to come, or just turn up.
Hermione Way, founder of Newspepper.com and Techfluff.tv will be our last speaker of 2009, gracing the stage of the Moore Building Lecture. Well-known on the UK tech scene, Hermione is renowned as a presenter, reporter and tech entrepreneur.
She has also recently appeared in the London Nude Tech calendar in support of TakeHeart India, put together by Milo Yiannopoulos from TechCrunch – proving that tech people are not all unattractive geeks!
So come along this Thursday and bring all your friends!
Bright Ideas Competition Deadline December 11th, 5pm – Online
Do you have a bright idea for a new or improved service or product, or a social enterprise or project? Put your ideas on paper and compete with your peers. You don’t need any formal business knowledge and you can enter on your own or as part of a team.
It’s simple – come up with a BRIGHT IDEA, apply and you could win one of:
7 prizes of £1000
16 prizes of £250
Plus an additional £250 for the best healthcare idea.
The deadline for applications is 5pm December 11th. Enter via the Westfocus website.
If you need advice about entering the competition, do contact John King.
We hope to see you all one last time this year, before everyone heads off for the holidays!
As if we weren’t already really looking forward to Global Entrepreneurship Week, 16-22 November 2009, here comes something to crank up the excitement even further. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has recorded a video for the Kauffman Foundation endorsing the week.
We’ll be posting all of our events for the week on our website and we invite you to come to all of them. Plus, we’re just putting the finishing touches to our amazing launch party – make sure you are signed up to our email newsletter to get an invite!
If you think you are, enter this competition to win approx £3,500 worth of tuition
fees, a Toshiba laptop, a prestigious summer 2010 placement with XMA, and the services of a mentor for your first year at University! Watch the video, presented by Hermione Way – who will be speaking at Royal Holloway in November – to find out more.
