Nonprofits & NGOs
Open Source Aid
An excerpt from The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs are Transforming the Global Aid Industry argues the case for openness.
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Technology - Book Excerpts
Innovations in technology that serve the world
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Technology
Uber as a Symbol of the New Economy
An excerpt of Uberland demonstrates how the rideshare app company has utilized Silicon Valley practices to transform the workplace.
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Technology
The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World
A venture capitalist argues that the liberal arts are at the heart of the best technology.
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Economic Development
An Overview of Free Innovation
New findings on the large scale and importance of innovation by consumers fundamentally change how we understand the innovation process.
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Social Services
Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies That Are Transforming Government
This excerpt from the newly released book Delivering on Digital looks at how the government in New South Wales, Australia, has used digital technologies and human-centered design to build a welfare system centered around individual children.
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Technology
The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future
The cofounder of AOL looks at the Internet’s potential to transform the social sector, on issues from healthcare to food access.
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Education
Learning with Big Data: The Future of Education
Learning with Big Data: The Future of Education offers real-world examples of how educators are using data to improve learning.
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Environment
Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy
Creating Climate Wealth discusses business model innovations that will help battle the effects of climate change.
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Technology & Design
SMART CITIES: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
SMART CITIES explores how the combination of city growth and new technology can bring opportunities for the future.
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Social Entrepreneurship
Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East
Looking beyond the region’s prominent conflicts, Startup Rising instead examines a quieter development in the Middle East: a surprising, burgeoning entrepreneurship.