Government
Data Disrupts Corruption
Document leaks, big data, and open government are reviving the fight against global graft.
Tag: Crowdsourcing
Foundations
Seeking and Solving
Through an online crowdsourcing platform, one foundation is reaching new types of partners who offer new types of solutions.
Review
Technology
Technology and Trust
The sharing economy can help us coordinate economy activity, but that’s not the same thing as building interpersonal trust and understanding.
Cities
Entrepreneurship Upside Down: What If You Start With What You Have?
Takeaways from a municipal prize competition.
Civic Engagement
Summer Reading: Eight Recent Books on Social, Economic, and Political Empowerment
These books offer perspectives on how we can enable a broader range of people to participate in our systems and institutions.
Review
Government
When Everyone Is an Expert
In an era of instant feedback and crowdsourcing, the government misses out when it relies solely on authorized voices.
Review
Technology & Design
Always on Call
A new, data-driven mode of confronting humanitarian disaster requires an appropriate policy framework.
Measuring Social Impact
Signaling and Confirming
A new framework can help nonprofits and other social sector organizations measure the participation of their supporters.
Leadership
Fearless Leadership in a Social World
Most leaders of traditional organizations are missing enormous opportunities to tap into the social networks, ingenuity, and good will of their own constituents.
Technology
What Does Corporate Social Responsibility Mean for the Technology Sector?
How tech can advance CSR.