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November 2006 
Building a better world, one business at a time.
Posted on Oct 4th, 2006
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Peace Through Commerce
Peace Through Commerce
At last weekend's Peace Through Commerce engagement experience, Mark Frazier and Soleman Idd of OpenWorld.com inspired me with wonderful stories about how globalization and entrepreneurship can make the world a better place. If you are feeling a little skeptical or pessimistic about the power of trade and commerce to assist the poor and oppressed, it might help to see a few stories. Thanks to Mark Frazier for sharing them.
- Horizon Lanka Microscholarships: Learn how private vouchers have assisted an entrepreneurial school for the rural poor in Sri Lanka.
- ECenters Pilot Project: A recent Openworld-designed, USAID-funded competition to assist communities in Kyrgyzstan with microvouchers, following their land grant commitments to sustain ongoing tech skills development. One of the awesome indirect benefits? Education. Each student learns that the world is so much bigger and brighter than his or her small community, thanks to the enlightening power of the world wide web.
- ZonAmerica: Michael Strong shared this example of a green field converted to a business park for knowledge industries on the Openworld free zone model. How cool is that?
- The Explorers Foundation announces a new OpenWorld "grassroots land registry initiative" for attracting diaspora investment to rural areas in developing countries.
For information on the Awakening Dormant Assets Toolkit, and how to provide further support, contact Openworld at 202.257.2574 or markf@openworld.com.
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