Will the FCC’s Digital Literacy Corps become a 21st Century Peace Corps? Maybe.
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Social Innovation Needs Design, and Design Needs Social Innovation
Social innovation needs people who know how to create lives filled with both success and purpose. It needs designers.
Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting
Don't be fooled into thinking strategies for online engagement can be cut and pasted from one platform to the next.
Open Source for Humanitarian Action
Ushahidi develops free software that allows volunteers to map humanitarian crises from their mobile phones.
PopTech: A Conference to Break Cynics
PopTech, the annual three-day meeting of innovators and do-gooders is a cynicism breaker.
Podcast
Changing Behavior and Changing Policies Panel (Part 3)
Park discusses how methods of efficiency developed in industries outside of health care need to be brought in to rework the health care industry.
Reducing Poverty Through Personal Manufacturing
The problem with traditional charity is that it gives little or no thought to the power of incentives or the necessity of self sufficiency.
Apps and Other Innovations Steve Jobs Gave to Nonprofits
Steve Jobs benefited the nonprofit sector by radically leveling the technological playing field.
An Open Source Approach to Medical Research
An interview with Stephen Friend about using using open source to encourage collaboration and share health information.
Worth a Look: Scoop.it Digital Content Tool
Scoop.it makes it easy to share the things you're reading, talking about, and interested in without adding a whole new platform to your daily work.