Evaluating High-tech Health Approaches in Low-income Countries
Promising technologies for maternal and child health, TB, and malaria abound, but we need to determine what really works.
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Influence and Impact: The New Nonprofit Digital Team
A recent report examines the evolution of digital efforts at nonprofits and the challenges that lie ahead.
New Ways to Evaluate Impact
Human-centered design and systems thinking can help evaluate social impact in a global context.
Silicon Valley Takes on Gun Violence
A group of Silicon Valley investors is challenging entrepreneurs to create high-tech solutions to reducing gun violence.
The “How” and “Who” of Emerging Market Tech Uptake
The dynamics of technology are changing rapidly in emerging markets, but leaders don’t necessarily agree on all the details.
Online Learning: A New Source of Talent and Ideas
Three ways organizations can tap into the rich resource of online learning environments.
Disrupting Corporate Philanthropy
Three best moves and three biggest lessons—Marc Benioff reflects on more than a decade of work at the Salesforce.com Foundation.
Libraries as Laboratories
In Accra, Ghana, social entrepreneurs are working to reinvent the public library for the 21st century.
Blurred Images, Better Futures
Software from a group called Ultrasafe Ultrasound promises to make it harder to practice sex-selective abortion.
The Call of Violence
In parts of the world, expanding cell-phone coverage brings with it an increase in violent activity.