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Government 2.0

By Carleen Hawn

Thanks to Todd Park, a federal agency has discovered that health care organizations can think more like nimble startups than like lumbering giants.

Jane Chen on social entrepreneurship.

Solving Infant Mortality with Social Entrepreneurship

Featuring Jane Chen

Social entrepreneur Jane Chen discusses the challenges and rewards of the developing an innovative product, and shares insights on the attitudes that allow entrepreneurs to find success.

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Antipoverty Apps

By Suzie Boss 13

mPowering has created an app that awards goods and services to individuals facing extreme poverty when they make beneficial choices.

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The Dragonfly Effect

By Jennifer Aaker & Andy Smith 10

Two veterans of consumer psychology, marketing, and entrepreneurship provide a guide to using social media for social change.

The Case for Causal AI

By Sema K. Sgaier, Vincent Huang & Grace Charles 3

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.