How many projects could change the world at a large scale? How technology could empower people to serve fundamental needs? If you have ever heard about OLPC, you could have some arguments to start a conversation.

Fortune Magazine publishes many ranks each year. The one we are the most interested in today is “12 Greatest Entrepreneurs of Our Time”, which we are particularly proud of because it includes Professor Yunus, President of danone.communities board. Pr. Yunus is mentioned besides many over innovative persons like Steve Jobs from Apple, Larry Page and Sergey Brin from Google, Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook… The Top 12 includes 10 American people, an Indian one and Yunus, who is from Bangladesh, as many people know. All the ranked persons are presented through a little story, in an article named "From dreamers to doers" (read the story of Yunus here). A mantra to keep in mind ?

Before reading the reasons why Pr. Yunus has been chosen to be part of the rank.(source DailyStar), we just would like to let you know that Pr. YUnus will be with us in Paris, 15th May for our annual Global Communities Meeting Tour 2012. More details here.

Remember, a few weeks ago, we talked about the project Lemateki, in Senegal. Today, sticks are finally out of the factory Danone Villacomtal, ready to fly to Senegal for a new phase: the test in situ. These sticks will be tested in the playgrounds in 17 schools in Dakar, for the first beneficiaries: children!

Isabelle Sultan, Project Manager danone.communities returns for us on the preparation of this step.

"In this phase, Lemateki is a project in incubation: this is not yet a social business with its own capital.

Danone plays an essential role in this phase where partners - Enda Graf Sahel and the fund danone.communities tomorrow - not (yet) invested:

• Danone has skills that reinforce or complement those of Enda Graf Sahel or institutional partners and academic Senegalese, especially regarding : nutrition, R & D, packaging, production, finance, legal, marketing, distribution, management of company. Thus, the development of simplified production tool is made in a factory Danone Villecomtal in the Gers (South of France). This non-local solution is absolutely transient: it can complete the process R & D, and limit the costs, upstream of the formation of the Senegalese independent legal entity, which tomorrow will fund its own expenses and investments.

• For indeed, in this phase and it is his other role, Danone agreed to finance all costs of incubation.