Measurement & Evaluation
From Principle to Practice: Humanitarian Innovation and Experimentation
Without methods to gauge success and failure, and without appropriate ethical frameworks, humanitarian tech may do more harm than good.
Tag: Technology
Education
Is Private Education in Africa the Solution to Failing Education Aid?
How the private sector is helping address Africa’s unmet demand for education in the face of falling education aid.
Government
What’s Next for Financial Technology Innovation
Governments in emerging markets need to take a holistic approach to creating business environments that truly enable financial technology (FinTech) innovation.
Social Enterprise
Game-changing Technology Is Not Enough
Mobile technology-driven solutions that aim to create social impact need to invest in customer-centric development and user training.
Technology
The Unexamined Algorithm Is Not Worth Using
Why nonprofits need to evaluate the ethics of their algorithms.
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Scaling
Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Crowd Collectives to Tackle Problems at Scale
Stanford's Michael Bernstein discusses how computational systems can create collectives of experts to solve problems.
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Technology
Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Cyber Technologies In Our Social Systems
Stanford's Rob Reich and George Triantis, and Eli Sugarman of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Cyber Initiative, discuss the urgent need for better understanding of cyber-social systems.
Scaling
The “Magical Space” Where Technology Increases Impact
The key to using technology for social impact at scale lies somewhere between doing the same thing better and true disruption.
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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.