Delivery By Drones- A Novel Concept By Zipline

 

Keller Rinaudo, the social entrepreneur, founded Zipline making drone delivery of essentials to the remote corners of Rwanda.
Drones are known as zips in Rwanda. Those zips deliver vaccines, medicine and blood transfusions to the needy. At 100 Kilometre per hour speed, these drones drop the essentials by using a tiny parachute. They have joined up with Rwanda Government to serve 20 clinics that are in desperate need of basic drugs. Normal delivery of medicines to these treacherous routes is tough otherwise.
It may sound strange that even in the USA drone delivery is at least a few years away. Besides medicines and essentials, Zipline is delivering blood as per demand. Blood is a rare commodity in Rwanda, and also preservation is very tough. Before the drones, the road delivery took many hours or even days to these remote areas. Now 30 minutes is all that takes delivery by drones.
Thirty-year-old Keller Rinaudo believes in for-profit social entrepreneurship simply because of the sustainability factor. His company of 75 have saved tens of thousands of people, especially for blood transfusion. His background in robotics, artificial intelligence and learning helped to formulate the business. Phone powered robots were his first project.
Right from the day he made the napkin design three and half years back, Zip line grew many times. The logistics was tried first and found success. He found that rain or shine, the delivery is assured. He could gather support from like-minded philanthropists in and out of the industry.
His world-changing company model can pave the way for more ideas. Rinaudo is the CEO of Zipline and managed to raise $25 million in Nov. 2016. More investments are in the pipeline as people started realizing the novelty of the scheme. He is in the final list of Forbes under thirty entrepreneurship list.

Reference URL: http://www.travelweekly.com/Arnie-Weissmann/Remember-name-Keller-Rinaudo

Financial Planning Starts From Home

A head for figures is what young entrepreneur Bryan Toh is good at, and he says that staying fiscally fit involves finding your ‘spend-versus-save formula.’ Bryan, 26, was born in Singapore and settled down in London. He helps businessmen to solve their problems.
Bryan can comparatively recruit faster and at the same time manage a team. He believed that Human Resource (HR) is not a mechanical process without human touch. This department is a bridge between prospective employees and recruitment managers. Having the right people at the right time at the right place is not an easy job but calls for deliberate planning, deliberations, and execution. Furthermore, the hidden talents could be brought out with proper analysis of history.
This app is well accepted by leading companies all over the globe like Big 4 consultancies, KPMG UK. But in spite of his job and travel, he is still homesick. He mitigates the homesickness by whipping up family recipes for curry chicken and sweet and sour pork.
His parents taught him to make smart money from the start and to appreciate the value of money. He understood how money has to be handled with care. The additional allowance his mom gave him, to do small errands, was an incentive. His thrifty grandfather taught him on stock investments.
Even with the high cost of living, he could make a dent in London with investment-linked insurance policies and ETFs (Exchange-Traded Funds). But he still cooks his food and loves MoneySaving Expert and the Motley Fool’s MarketFoolery.
He knows how to invest and save better. That idea is taught to corporate through the app. This social entrepreneur is all out to change the concept of business, profit, and HR. His motto is to have better ROI to him and the companies- small, medium or large- alike.

Reference URL: http://www.straitstimes.com/business/invest/a-head-for-figures?xtor=CS12-104-[ST_InContent_Native

Mountain Girl Comes Home With Climate Change Battle Plan

Ms.Tsechu Dolma, a native Tibetan, founded the Mountain Resiliency Project. The aim was to address the poverty and food insecurity prevalent in mountain communities. The community is facing the adverse impact of climate change. The negative impacts of climate change on Himalayan communities were to be mitigated by developing strategies for food, energy, and talent security.
The action plan was to involve schools, expand local ownership, and enhances adaptive capacity to minimize climate disaster. Existing schools and monasteries were identified to develop sustainably and food security. MRP propagate the idea of self-sufficiency in revenue while the energy need was met by biomass mostly. Schools and monasteries were encouraged in farming.
MRP takes up the path of a holistic approach and disrupts institutional negligence and levels the uneven development. MRP’s model strengthens mountain communities with innovating food, energy and talent security as a critical step in combating climate change resilience.
She is an environmental scientist and anthropologist. During one of her trips to Upper Mustang region of Nepal, Tsechu Dolma realized that villagers were affected by the effects of climate change on the area. Erratic precipitation depleted water resources, and food security issues were rampant. The things got further aggravated by the internal wars.
The young people were going to the capital Kathmandu or India in search of work due to the civil war and climatic vagaries. She was raised in Nepal, the daughter of Tibetan refugees and moved to the US, seeking political asylum. The community greenhouse was built in conjunction with local villagers and local organizations, using local materials. Its ability to withstand the harsh climate was a great success. The food sustainability was achieved with the involvement of local bodies. Apple orchard is the outcome in Nepal. Tsechu Dolma won 2014 Brower Youth Award.

Reference URL: http://www.echoinggreen.org/fellows/tsechu-dolma

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