Innovations in technology that serve the world (more)
Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson’s Ingenious applies concepts and metaphors from evolutionary biology to explain the impact of technological innovation on human life. A book review from the Spring 2020 issue.
In response to the coronavirus epidemic, SSIR has temporarily halted seeking submissions for a series on extreme polarization and how it affects civil society's efforts to solve social problems, and how to build collaborations, communicate with the public, and manage conflict in a divided world.
Tech philanthropy is booming, but it doesn’t think nearly enough about the needs of the organizations it hopes to help. Here’s a roundup of best practices and resources that can help tech firms move fast and fix how they fund nonprofits.
A pragmatic, “good enough” approach to experimentation in humanitarian contexts. The third of five articles in Humanitarian Innovation in Action, a series on innovation as a tool for change within complex institutions.
To truly benefit from innovation, humanitarian organizations need to regard it as a set of values that runs through all of their practices. The first of five articles in Humanitarian Innovation in Action, a new series exploring innovation as a tool for change within complex institutions.
The two-person company Solmove has a plan to pave Germany’s roads with small, durable, slip-resistant solar panels. A What's Next article from the Fall 2019 issue.
Economist Carl Benedikt Frey offers a refreshingly human-centered analysis of technological progress in The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation. A book review from the Fall 2019 issue.
The chaos of Dhaka's roads inspired Jon Moussally, a physician in Massachusetts and instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, to cofound a volunteer-based emergency response system aimed at reducing death from road traffic injuries. A Field Report from the Fall 2019 issue.
The international nonprofit Orbis' investments in cutting-edge technologies have revolutionized its telemedicine capabilities by expediting two-way communication between ophthalmologists in the United States and Europe and their counterparts in Asia, Africa, and South America.. A Field Report from the Fall 2019 issue.
An excerpt from Chasing Innovation explores how innovators can improve their entrepreneurial practices.
