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"A little-known company is finding success offering free online education around the world."
Besides being all for free, easily-accessible education, ALISON is offering skills training for employability, and seem to have really thought it through, by targeting their audience and keeping standards high.
I would argue against the statement "that the scope of the problem necessitates a business approach", but they're doing good work.
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During the Indian Civil War, the Dharavi slums of Mumbai were flooded with refugees looking to escape the conflict.
Bioengineered mushrooms were stolen from Amsterdam, failed to be transformed into narcotics, turned up in Mumbai's Dharavi slum which had a high concentration of highly-educated refugees, including an expert in plant genetics, and resulted in mushrooms being used to light and heat the slums and develop a micro-economy. 
Terry Elliott's comment,
July 26, 2012 5:45 PM
It is not so farfetched given the incredible amount of practical science being born all over Africa right now.
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