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Ken Banks
The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator

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Despite the tens of billions spent each year in international aid, some of the most promising and exciting social innovations and businesses have come about by chance. Many of the people behind them did not consciously set out to solve anything, but they did. Welcome to the world of the reluctant innovator.

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Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net, devotes himself to the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change in the developing world. He is a Pop Tech Fellow, a Tech Awards Laureate, an Ashoka Fellow and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, and has been internationally recognised for his technology-based work.

Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 232 ● ISBN 9781907994197 ● File size 41.2 MB ● Editor Ken Banks ● Publisher London Publishing Partnership ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2013 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5462972 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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