Crisis Tech
Listening closely to users has enabled developers to create digital tools that support responses to the recent Ebola outbreak.
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Zone of Impact
A school-based collective impact project in West Dallas, Texas, is yielding lessons on how to compile and use big data.
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Danger Ahead
The spread of technology-based platforms brings greater connectivity—but also greater vulnerability.
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Always on Call
A new, data-driven mode of confronting humanitarian disaster requires an appropriate policy framework.
What Net Neutrality Says About Neoliberalism
Some values are more important than giving more people access to Wikipedia for free.
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Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
The Dragonfly Effect
Two veterans of consumer psychology, marketing, and entrepreneurship provide a guide to using social media for social change.
The Information Age Goes Old School
Is the digital divide a thing of the past?
Why Social Innovators Need Design Thinking
Design is a process especially suited to divergent thinking—the exploration of new choices and alternative solutions.
Big Data for Social Innovation
Nonprofits lag behind business and science in using big data effectively.