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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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fact that 93% of the world’s population has not had a college education, but statistics like that may soon become outdated thanks to innovative projects that are tearing down barriers...
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.
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...
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 —...
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...