Specialty Health Care Through Local Pharmacies
A partnership-based, digital health care platform in India is connecting medical specialists to patients who lack access to appropriate care.
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Should Heartland Cities Become Tech Hubs?
Urbanist Nicholas Lalla offers a playbook for tech-led economic development in midsize cities, avowing that inclusive growth can offset the worsening wealth inequities that the tech sector has helped generate.
Local Digital Spaces Are Essential Civic Infrastructure
With traditional community spaces underfunded and neglected, investing in the health of our online gathering places has become essential.
Court AI
A new AI-powered technology is expediting India’s notoriously dilatory legal system.
Anticipatory Humanitarian Aid
Mercy Corps leverages satellite data and AI to preemptively send emergency relief to people ahead of natural disasters.
Gather, Share, Build
Why data is one of the biggest challenges to leveraging AI for social good—and how the social sector can address it
Building Community-Centered AI Collaborations
Mission-driven organizations should look beyond the tech sector and build AI partnerships with academia, CBOs, artists, and foundations.
Encouraging Human Creativity in the AI-Powered Future
Strong IP protections will incentivize the human creativity that’s essential to improving, applying, and using AI.
The Stories We Tell About AI
Narratives are an essential prerequisite to social change. Current narratives on AI and work only serve to increase tech companies’ power and undermine workers’ rights.
To Bot or Not to Bot? How AI Companions Are Reshaping Human Services and Connection
The rise of AI-powered social services will mean walking a difficult tightrope between democratizing access to resources and depleting access to social connection.