Ashoka Lemelson/Globalizer Fellow Greg Van Kirk talks about successful social innovation in the context of his efforts to found the MicroConsignment model -- a sustainable, replicable means of delivering health-related goods and services to remote villages using entrepreneurship and local empowerment.

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