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Education
Removing Barriers to Quality Education in the MENA Region
Investments in digital innovation have the potential to greatly expand access to education, but creating new, high-quality, low-cost, and scalable learning platforms requires broad collaboration.
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Business
Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil
A new data-based initiative is helping businesses measure the racial equity of their workforce and take steps to improve it.
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Human Rights
A Multiracial Democracy in the United States Requires Racial Repair
Comprehensive reparations are fundamental to realizing our highest democratic ideals.
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Health
Drawing Young People Out of Social Isolation in South Korea
Why vast numbers of young Koreans are experiencing extreme social withdrawal, and how to help them re-engage with society.
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Economic Development
Okinawa and the Link Between Socioeconomic Disparities and Colonialism in Japan
Colonialism has contributed to enduring power imbalances between Okinawa and mainland Japan, but there is a path forward through policy change.
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Technology
Advancing Equitable AI in the US Social Sector
How thoughtfully designed AI-powered applications can drive stronger and more equitable outcomes for nonprofits.
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Human Rights
Using ‘Purple Glasses’ to Achieve Gender Equity in Mexico
The best starting point for creative solutions to gender inequity is seeing clearly where and why it exists.
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Human Rights
Taking Steps Toward Disability Inclusion in China
A group of newly launched business and nonprofit coalitions are aiming to advance disability inclusion in a new way.
The Global Pursuit of Equity
Social and environmental inequities exist in every pocket of the world, without exception. They often form across familiar lines, including race, gender, or physical ability, and manifest in familiar ways, including greater or less access to education, employment, technology, security, and a healthy environment. However, the severity, entrenchment, and complexity of these inequities are unique from region to region and community to community. So are their origins, their evolution, and how people define them.
Solving them therefore requires a strong sense of context, including what perpetuates or holds them in place and where the power to change them lies. It demands the knowledge and ingenuity of people who see and experience inequity firsthand. In other words, it requires local innovation.
Stanford Social Innovation Review is proud to present our first-ever global series of articles created in collaboration with our six local language partners—SSIR China, SSIR en Español, SSIR Japan, SSIR Korea, SSIR Brazil, and SSIR Arabia. The series, devoted to advancing equity, looks at inequities within the context of seven specific regions or countries, and the ways local innovators are working to balance the scales and foster greater inclusion across a range of issue areas. The stories explore different sectors and feature ideas or projects in different stages of development, but they all aim to inspire and inform.
The series is the result of a generous, creative, and resolute global team of local language edition editors, and unlike any we’ve published before, it will be available in Chinese, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, and Arabic on our partners’ respective platforms. Taken together, these local stories of innovation help paint a picture of what global equity might look like.