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The former chief innovation officer at USAID outlines a way for social sector organizations and funders to build innovation into their DNA.
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Rob Reich, a Marc and Laura Andreessen faculty co-director of Stanford PACS, moderates a conversation about the promise and peril of technology in civil society. Reich is joined by Kelly Born, a program manager at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Madison Initiative, and Arisha Hatch, managing director of campaigns at Color of Change.
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Using autonomous drones, the company Zipline can deliver blood products and medicines for immediate medical treatment in remote areas.
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Using artificial intelligence to predict behavior can lead to devastating policy mistakes. Health and development programs must learn to apply causal models that better explain why people behave the way they do to help identify the most effective levers for change.