BOP Source

The first social network for the base of the pyramid

BOP Source is a consumer research company - we conduct surveys, focus groups, and video ethnography on people who earn less than $2 per day.

Members

  • Anand Sheombar
  • Ann Fazakerley
  • Junichi Kawai
  • Natalie
  • Richard Close
  • Kathi Kaesehage
  • Griselda Lassaga
  • Yuki Kurihara
  • Jacob Winiecki
  • TheMicrofinanceGateway
  • Anjali
  • Nicholas Pineda
  • Gavin Meschnig
  • Carlos Martin Ruiz
  • Camila Amaya Castro
  • Mark Frazier
  • Lars Voskuijl
  • Julie Lasky
  • Kevin McFarland
  • Myrtille Danse

About BOP Source

BOP Source is a consumer research company specializing in the "base of the pyramid," or those who earn less than $2 per day. We conduct surveys, focus groups, interviews, and video ethnography for multinational companies, NGOs, and academics. Contact us at research@bopsource.com to discuss your research needs.

Our online platform serves as a social network that closes the digital divide, bringing together the 4 billion people at the base of the economic pyramid (the "BOP") with the companies and NGOs that want to hire them and design products and services for them.

On BOP Source, companies can interact with and get to know BOP consumers and BOP consumers can look for jobs and voice their needs for how products should be designed.

The chat, forum, photo, blogging, and other BOP Source features allow companies anywhere in the world to interact with rural and urban internet users in developing countries. Companies can use these features to conduct consumer research directly on the site or contact us at research@bopsource.com about hiring BOP Source to facilitate interviews, focus groups, and more for your product development and marketing needs.

Those seeking employment have listed their skills and training on their profile pages, making it easier for companies to identify them. Likewise, companies can list job opportunities by starting a company group page or by sending direct messages to people.

Last but not least, BOP Source is the first social network for the base of the pyramid and will be used as such - for photo sharing, learning about people and cultures, collaborating on ideas, making new friends, and more.

By bridging the two worlds together - companies and the BOP - BOP Source offers a sustainable way out of poverty, through jobs and expanded access to life-improving products and services.

BOP Source Blog

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Richard Close, Junichi Kawai and Natalie joined BOP Source
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Griselda Lassaga Only working, thinking and co creating new business in networks is the way for inclusive business!!! This is the reason for me to be here
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Chat Live on BOP Source

In the lower right hand corner of the page, you will see who is online at the same time as you and be able to chat privately or publicly. The chat feature will help you facilitate discussions, research, focus groups, interviews, hiring, finding employment, and more. You can start typing into the main public chat box or click on the name of someone who is online to chat privately.

Forum

TheMicrofinanceGateway

Unsustainable Growth: Morocco’s Microfinance Story

A recognized microfinance champion, Morocco hosts some of the best performing MFIs in the world. But since 2007, the microfinance sector's exuberant growth has come at a large cost. CGAP's Xavier Rei…

Started by TheMicrofinanceGateway in General Jan 21.

TheMicrofinanceGateway

Unsustainable Growth: Morocco’s Microfinance Story

A recognized microfinance champion, Morocco hosts some of the best performing MFIs in the world. But since 2007, the microfinance sector's exuberant growth has come at a large cost. CGAP's Xavier Rei…

Started by TheMicrofinanceGateway in Africa Jan 21.

Bob Soers

Ambidextrous companies at the Base of the Pyramid: does external fit influence the way companies pursue innovation? 1 Reply

Dear All, A long time ago I had posted a request for help regarding my research. In July I finished my study and I completed my Master Degree with an 8. I would like to share my research with all th…

Started by Bob Soers in General. Last reply by Anand Sheombar Jan 13.

Heather Esper

WDI BoP Impact Assessment Workshop

The William Davidson Institute is proud to share with you the following: Base of the Pyramid Impact Assessment Workshop February 17th - 19th, 2010 at the University of Michigan http://www.wdi.umich.…

Tagged: outcomes, povertyalleviation, metrics, Impact, Assessment

Started by Heather Esper in General Dec. 16, 2009.

Blog Posts

Edan Weis

Design for Social Wellbeing

Design for Social Wellbeing: A Case Study of Normative Design Thinking

This research is a comparative study of the design process accross several organizations designing for/with the poor, specifically the early concept/ideation stages of product development. I'm interested in the way designer's "frame" their problems according to their individual perspectives, and how this affects their design process. In "social design", perspectives are often as contested as the development theories t… Continue

Posted by Edan Weis on October 2, 2009 at 6:30pm

Raja Ram Gautam

Fund Raising

How to fund raising

Posted by Raja Ram Gautam on September 20, 2009 at 1:38am

Sebastian Adu-Gyamfi

Malaria The silent Killer

Did you also know
that malaria kills an African child under age 5 every 30 seconds? And that, 3000 children perish by it daily and over 1 million every year, not to talk about its crippling annual losses in GDP growth in endemic countries. This is absurd and not acceptable it’s a 100 percent treatable disease. find out more and how you can help at www.bloomtrust.org

Posted by Sebastian Adu-Gyamfi on September 14, 2009 at 5:52am

Sebastian Adu-Gyamfi

One in six of the people in our world don’t have access to the most basic human need.

Did u know
that every 15 seconds a child dies from lack of clean water and the same cause kills an estimated 4, 500 daily and 42, 000 people die weekly from disease related to unsafe drinking of water? Well 80 percent of all sickness on the planet is caused by unsafe water and lack of sanitation. It kills 2.2 million people every year. That’s more than all forms of violence, including war and at any one time half the hospital beds in developing countries are filled with people suffering from dia… Continue

Posted by Sebastian Adu-Gyamfi on September 14, 2009 at 5:38am

Sebastian Adu-Gyamfi

The Generation And The Believe

I believe we are the generation that can chalk a great achievement in history by being the change we want to see and act now to end extreme poverty. Fight poverty, the oppressor by raising great awareness about Bloom Trust projects and make a live-saving difference today to help bridge the gap. Find out how and more at www.bloomtrust.org

Posted by Sebastian Adu-Gyamfi on September 14, 2009 at 5:29am

 
 

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