Credit Where It’s Due
New tools and practices are helping low-income Americans use rent payments to build up their financial profile.
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Crisis Tech
Listening closely to users has enabled developers to create digital tools that support responses to the recent Ebola outbreak.
Getting Creative About Corruption
A group in Lebanon deploys a wide range of methods—from mobile apps to street theater—to thwart bribe-taking by officials.
Text the Vote
In a classic leapfrogging initiative, Libya has enabled its citizens to complete voter registration via digital messaging technology.
Booked for Revival
A combination of fresh funding and e-book technology will enable publishers to give new life to out-of-print scholarly works.
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Retailing with Heart
At Panera Cares cafés, there’s a donation box where customers pay on the honor system.
Antipoverty Apps
mPowering has created an app that awards goods and services to individuals facing extreme poverty when they make beneficial choices.
Stopping Child Porn
Computer imaging technology gets put to work to fight child porn fast—five-millisecond-fast.
Curling Up with E-Readers
Worldreader.org is using electronic reading devices to catalyze a new culture of global literacy.
Trawling for Trash
An EU Fisheries Commission Project pays fisherman to remove plastic debris from the Mediterranean Sea.