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Turning the world upside down

Posted by Steven Speldewinde On April - 16 - 2009

On Tuesday I went to a great seminar on Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship.  I will provide a more comprehensive write up as soon as I receive the slides for the day but one thing I noticed was that the logos on the Slides and websites of both Swedfund (a government run Swedish risk capital fund concentrating on ethical investments in the developing world) and Diferencia (a consultancy and training firm specialising in sustainable development) had flipped the world map upside down.  This made me think a lot about our perspective on the world.  Below is the 273 Map flipped, you can see our investors in red and the entrepreneurs in green.  To me this view of the world presents a great opportunity, what do you think?

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This also reminded me of a video, that I have posted before on a different blog about turning problems upside down to find opportunities, I think it is worth posting again - enjoy.

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