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The revolutions sweeping the Middle East and North Africa have captured the collective attention of the world, and with good reason: the images of millions mobilized in Cairo, the thousands protesting under threat of gunfire in Syria and Bahrain, and...

I had the opportunity to attend a conference at USAID a fewweeks ago on the theme of Knowledge Management (KM) for Development (http://kdid.org/kmic). It was a great space to learn about the challenges that the development community is facing related to...

Moved by images of buildings crumbling like sand castles and children wandering the streets crying for parents buried in the rubble, I donated $10 to the Yéle Haiti Earthquake Fund, excited that saving the world was as simple as texting...

TED events are always engaging and yesterday's TEDx event in San Francisco proved to be no exception. The theme (and hashtag) was #ALIVE and the topics presented generally revolved around this topical area albeit in some surprising (and sometimes funny)...

When an innovator is struck with a new idea for a technology, his or her first thought isn't naturally "How can this be used for a humanitarian, development, or peace-building cause?". Rather, it is more often "How can I sell...

On May 16th 2011, Washington DC’s Newseum – interactive media museum that instills an appreciation of the importance of a free press and the US' First Amendment – hosted the Journalists Memorial Rededication honoring the journalists who died covering the...

(Cross-posted from Aaron's blog) For all the talk about games-based learning and gamification of the classroom, I'm surprised the question of assessment hasn't come up as often as it should have. If it does come up, it's usually in the...

Last Wednesday, Ashoka delivered a terrific panel conversation at the World Bank called, Public Goods through Social Enterprises: Creating Hybrid Value Chains. Bill Drayton and Valeria Budinich spearheaded the discussion with their thoughts on the growing impact of hybrid value chains,...

How can digital activists harness new technologies, tools, and platforms to be as effective as possible in their work? Digital organizing has arguably been at the heart of the recent protests in the Arab world. In the case of Egypt,...

<div id =”blargh” width=”200” height=”… > Whether you think of HTML as a familiar friend or a terrifying alien monster, we can all agree that sometimes code just takes too much time.  In an attempt to help a friend build...