After a dynamic, collaborative and super-charged sprint, the Grameen Social Business Challenge has raced to the finish line. Once again, the OpenIDEO community impressed us with your creative and big picture thinking. Cheers to everyone for your enthusiasm, energy and efforts, and congratulations to the ten winning concepts. As a special thanks for your collaborative efforts, Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, and Martin Loeffler from GCL have put together a video message for the community. Check it out!
290 contributions
96 ideas
20 final ideas
Announced!
Ongoing
Winning Concepts
10 contributions
Sorted by Recently updated
Contribution list
Madre Cuidadora: a Mentor / Village Phone / Vendor lady
Instead of having a vending machine selling all sorts of healthcare-related items (diapers, baby food and clothes, birth kits, cell phones, etc.), we could imagine using community mothers or mentors, or even health care workers. This way, we could re
Mobile phones for on demand information dissemination
With 95% penetration, mobile phones are the most lucarative tool for information dissemination. Design menu based expert system (using protocols like USSD) which gives authentic information on queries ranging from what do for infant's rehydration to
Roving Healthcare Workers
Train a group of people in the basics of healthcare for issues common in the area, including nutrition and reproductive health. Provide them with the basic items that would be frequently needed such as nutrition packs, specialized baby formula, vacci
'Crecer y Ahorrar' / Grow & Save
Child Growth Monitoring Chart + Rewards Loyatly Card = A pharmacy rewards program allowing mothers to buy cheaper food and medical supplies for their babies while monitoring their growth (UPDATED!).
Franchise Health Clinic Network
Franchise Health Clinic Network is a franchise system of distribution of health clinic centered around qualified nurses as entrepreneurs in remote areas in Caldas. The health clinic serves as a basic clinic and drug stores, while maintaining a high s
DeletedUser
Amigas de la salud - Juntos vivimos mejor
"Much of what a doctor or nurse now does can be done as effectively, or sometimes even more effectively, by community health workers operating in the community, and providing home-based care." - Jeffrey SachsEconomist and Director of the Earth Inst
Food subscription + Food insurance
Families subscribe to a monthly plan of healthy and varied food. They pay a fixed daily fee and get a box of food every day. The bulk-buying savings are saved in a food insurance fund, guaranteeing a proper nutrition for the family even in hard times
Market Vendors-Clinicians Cooperative
An alliance between market vendors and clinicians to increase healthcare access to Caldas' rural populations.
DeletedUser
A low-cost telemedicine solution that connects rural patients to urban doctors
ReMeDi (Remote Medical Diagnostics) is a solution kit that connects rural patients with urban doctors at a low cost. Trained operators at Internet kiosks transmit the patients’ readings to doctors who make diagnosis and issue prescriptions. ReMeDi me
Mobile training camp for Entrepreneurship
Everyone in Caldas is an Entrepreneur, that's something we learned in the inspiration phase. What if there was a service that trained people in the skills to turn those entrepreneurial instincts into viable social businesses?
