Instagram-Style Innovation in the Public Sector
What if we leveraged the ingenuity and resources in Silicon Valley for the improvement and renewal of the rest of the country?
Technology - Articles
Innovations in technology that serve the world (more)
Building Better Solutions Together, Faster
A look at the innovative *Weekend Movement in Malaysia.
Podcast
Solar Power in a Suitcase
In this audio interview, Sheela Sethuraman talks with Laura Stachel and Hal Aronson, co-founders of WE CARE Solar, about their effort to combat this issue worldwide. WE CARE stands for Women’s Emergency Communication and Reliable Electricity.
Mobile Operators: White Knights of Financial Inclusion?
Two issues are dogging existing mobile money systems: excessive system downtime and lack of interconnection.
Five Levers for Social Change: Part 5
Practical Advice Series: Five basic “levers,” or strategies, to help businesses or nonprofits achieve social change.
Tension and Possibility: The New Dynamics of Change
Reflections on Ashoka’s Change Nation event in Dublin.
Data for Change
Data Without Borders matches tech-savy volunteers with organizations instead of data analysis.
Podcast
Medical Device Innovation: Panel Discussion
Focusing on unmet needs, healthcare entrepreneurs provide their in-the-trenches perspectives on advancing medical technologies. Working to extend and enhance lives.
Thrun on the Udacity Model
A follow up to the recent post "Some Questions About Udacity."
Some Questions About Udacity
Artificial intelligence professor Sebastian Thrun quits Stanford to create a for-profit online university.