Technology and Environmental Sustainability
Media expert Tim O'Reilly provides insight into how innovative technologies can be used to support sustainable development and power the future.
Technology and International Development
USAID Chief Innovation Officer Maura O'Neill leads a discussion on how connection technologies can support sustainable development.
Teaching with Interactive Simulations
Katherine Perkins discusses what differentiates Physics Education Technology (PhET), and the range of students that have benefited.
Health Innovation Challenges in India and Africa: Panel Discussion
Michele Barry, Director of Global Health Programs in Medicine at Stanford leads a distinguished group of global health professionals who have created innovative programs to benefit their respective countries’ health services.
Technology in Healthcare Delivery Redesign (2)
Using workflow automation and tracking solutions to address the needs of the acute care hospital marketplace.
Enhancing Educational Data Systems
In this Stanford University podcast, president Matthew Schnittman discusses the organization’s model for service delivery, and where it’s headed.
Investing in Education in China
Justin Cahill talks about how his enterprise built a company called RISE, which now boasts 30,000 children learning English in more than 100 learning centers in one of the fastest-growing markets in world.
GS | SU Global Education Conference: Kunskapsskolan Case Study
A look at new schools in Sweden that provide personalized and hands-on classroom experience.
Promoting Civic Engagement and Voting
Organizations are finding that subtle changes in language make a difference in how people vote.
Promoting Health Through Weight Loss
Harvard business professor Leslie John reports on studies providing financial and social incentives to get people to lose weight.
Environmental Sustainability Through Recycling
Kate White shares research about how positive and negative messages around recycling influence people’s behavior.
Improving Educational Achievement for Minorities
Stanford assistant professor Greg Walton examines a psychological factor that contributes to inequalities between socially marginalized and non-marginalized groups.
Food, Water, and Energy
In this audio lecture, Dr. Ann Bartuska of the U.S. Department of Agriculture shares her insight on the necessary steps to sustainably feed the nine billion people that will be living on our planet by 2050.
Mobile and Branchless Banking
In this audio interview, Sheela Sethuraman speaks with one of branchless banking's greatest proponents and the co-founder of Eko India Financial Services, Abhishek Sinha.
The Civic Impact of Youth Volunteerism
McAdam reviews two follow-up studies of youth activists, and assesses the experiences and their long-term effects on volunteers.