What a grea post, Nathaniel. Best of luck in your new life in San Francisco. I look forward to seeing how you continue to develop the great idea of Assetmap.
Francisco
Thanks for this great post, Nathaniel. I agree with you in that we may be seeing a new wave of such centers and I argue that it all comes own to one simple matter: better connectors are needed, and these centers can play a big part in that role. What will be interesting will be to see these centers connect with each other, entrepreneurs neatly profiled so they can be easily "found" and ultimately the enterprise development organizations (for lack of a better name) like investment funds, tech assistance providers and the like be part of this equation. A revolution may be coming this way and your post is right on.
Best
Francisco
Sejal,
Your work is very inspiring and I think you should get in touch with Binti Africa Foundation, which is pursuing the same goal in Kenya and expanding into other African countries. Follow the link below and see a short video I made of Zipporah. Feel free to get in touch I'll be happy to put you two in contact if you think it's useful. Keep up the good work!
http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/09/04/social-entrepreneurs-from-gsbi-2008-meet-zipporah-ongwenyi-from-binti-africa-foundation