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The rise of citizen video journalism as a tool to meet SDGs and enable citizen participation in creating and using data

Issues affecting rural areas in India, where 70% of the population of the country live, are hardly ever reported on mainstream media, a virtual “invisibility” that motivated Jessica Mayberry to set up...
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TrustCircle

TrustCircle, the AI-based self-awareness and mental health prevention platform set to reach 10% of the world population by 2040  

When the world is failing to address growing mental health problems, hope lightens up as an initiative, with a successful track record in India, the United States, Malaysia, and Africa, and the...
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Karo Sambhav collection point.

Here’s how Karo Sambhav is building circular solutions at scale to India’s e-waste problem

Pranshu Singhal has dedicated his career to finding innovative ways to tackle electronic waste. After two decades working for big tech corporations, he decided to approach the problem with a whole new...
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AtmaGo

Meet the founder of AtmaGo – the social network empowering vulnerable communities

A passionate belief that technology can help change the world from the ground up was the inspiration behind the launch of a social network that is helping millions of people develop greater resilience...
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pinBox

How a digital micro-pension revolution could help a billion workers avoid retirement poverty

An estimated 1.8 billion self-employed informal sector workers in Asia, Africa and Latin America are at risk of living in post-retirement poverty unless effective systems are put in place to help them...
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The social entrepreneur using platform tech to create population-scale, community-led resilience to climate disasters

When it comes to leadership in the relief sector, few people can claim the experience of Manu Gupta, who over 28 years has helped more than six million people rebuild their lives after being hit by...
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Lessons from a teacher on raising 1.4 billion dollars for underfunded classrooms over 22 years

Teachers in state schools in the United States spend almost two billion dollars of their own money each year on classroom supplies due to underfunding in the education system. As this situation...
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Free education for all is becoming a reality – here’s how it’s happening  

It’s a sobering fact that 93% of the world’s population has not had a college education, but statistics like that may soon become outdated thanks to innovative projects that are tearing down barriers...
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Thinking and Acting Like a Platform Will Help Social Entrepreneurs Create Impact at Scale

Platform thinking pushes social entrepreneurs to leave the role of the problem solver in favor of being an enabler of changemakers who can solve problems locally.
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A Special Power for Good Tech

Everything is changing faster and faster. Everything is connected. The almost opposite, familiar world of repetition is in an exponential death dive. These are the facts, our only reality. To succeed...
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Lessons From The Frontlines: Preparing A Global Vaccine Workforce

Dr. Sanjeev Arora had been using Zoom for years, long before Covid-19 put it on the desktop of every manager, consultant, and third-grade teacher from Columbus to Capetown. He founded Project ECHO —...
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Societal Platform Thinking

In India, a group of innovative strategic entrepreneurs and philanthropists — among them the co-founder of Infosys — are piloting an ambitious approach: societal platforms are open digital co-creation...
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