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Emeka Okafor is an entrepreneur who lives in New York City. His interests include sustainable technologies in the developing world and paradigm breaking technologies in general. His blog, Timbuktu Chronicles seeks to spur dialogue in areas of entrepreneurship, technology and the scientific method as it impacts Africa.

"Emeka's blogs and projects highlight the power of an ever-growing nexus involving technology, business and development. Timbuktu Chronicles aggregates some of the most interesting and exciting models of entrepreneurship happening in Sub-Saharan Africa while Africa Unchained allows Emeka to "think out loud" about paradigms of development, innovation and politics." Z Plus Partners Blog

BRINQ focuses on the role of business in the so-called Base of the Pyramid - the world's four billion poor - developing and writing about on-the ground methodologies and knowledge needed to re-imagine this intersection of business, poverty and innovation. BRINQ has three main focus areas:

• Innovation - re-imagining technology (particularly information and media systems) for, with, and by people in the BoP
• Partnering - creating and enacting partnerships between poor communities and business

Developed and managed by the Washington-based World Resources Institute, NextBillion.net is an award winning BoP news site and a knowledge repository for those with an interest in the “next billion” - the next billion to rise from the base of the economic pyramid (BOP) as participants in healthy economies, and the next billion in profits for businesses, from multinational to microenterprises, to earn by selling to underserved markets.