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Daughters are Dying Every Minute From...

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Daughters are Dying Every Minute From...

And suddenly all the statistics I had been collecting, all the nameless women I had been interviewing took on the face of that pale, emaciated woman. And I could no longer be a casual bystander in the face of the horrific realities in front of me. And that is how Concerns for MDGs came into being.
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Mobiles to Give Sexual and Reproductive Health...

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Mobiles to Give Sexual and Reproductive Health...

Pathfinder International is exploiting mobile technology to address youth sexual and reproductive health in Mozambique and Ethiopia.
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Mobile Health in Action: Sesame Workshop India

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Mobile Health in Action: Sesame Workshop India

Last month, I spent 10 days zigzagging across India, stopping in six cities on an unforgettable journey to visit the sites of several projects that the mHealth Alliance supports through our Innovation Working Group catalytic grant program. Through this program, which is supported by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, we provide funding and technical assistance for mobile health (mHealth) projects that aim to improve maternal and child health in low- and middle-income countries....Read More
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How Online Mapmakers Are Helping the Red Cross...

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How Online Mapmakers Are Helping the Red Cross...

Internet volunteers are creating a highly detailed map of the areas affected by super typhoon Haiyan so aid workers know where needs the most help.
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Shining a Light on Health Care Heroes

Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

Shining a Light on Health Care Heroes

When the sun sets tonight around the world, more than 400 maternity clinics that long labored in darkness will have light. Reliable, robust, and easy to use “Solar Suitcases” will provide light and power for midwives and doctors to deliver babies, conduct c/sections, treat pregnancy complications, and care for newborn babies in 25 countries. For many mothers and babies, that light may mean life.
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Four Thoughts on the 2013 ASTMH Annual Meeting

Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

Four Thoughts on the 2013 ASTMH Annual Meeting

Written by Daniel G. Bausch, MD, MPH&TM, ASTMH Councilor, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans/NAMRU-6, Lima, Peru. Another ASTMH Annual Meeting down, by rough count my 19th. Cutting through the fatigue of 5-days of non-stop juggling of symposium attendance, satellite conferences, and impromptu meetings with collaborators and friends, I identify what have come to be the usual mix of thoughts and emotions, which keep me coming back year after year: Inspiration! Everywhere you turn amazingly smart and productive people are doing great science and public health work! How can I take what I learned from listening to researchers talking about their one-health projects in Kenya or studies in urban slums in Brazil to...Read More
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Exclusive: Batkid's Family Launches Batkid Fund

The Social Good Summit 2030 NOW has shown the ways How Technology can we use for furthering human causes Globally. It has opened up new era of Global involvement in solving the Global issues facing humanity. A new era has begun, Congratulation to the Organizers and Congratulation to the event managers and participants throughout the Globe in more than 120 countries discussing on the same topic. A big Begening...

Exclusive: Batkid's Family Launches Batkid Fund

One week ago, the city of San Francisco transformed itself into Gotham to honor the wish of 5-year old leukemia survivor Miles Scott while the world watched enraptured on social media . Now Miles' family aims to keep the spirit of Batkid alive by launching a charity fund in the tiny superhero's name. "It seems only fitting that following a day when the world demonstrated caring and compassion for Batkid, Batkid can now help others," said Miles' parents, Nick and Natalie...Read More
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5 reasons to get excited for the future of mHealth

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5 reasons to get excited for the future of mHealth

As a primer discussion for the 2013 mHealth Summit , mHealth News ( @mhealth_news ) is hosting a Twitter Chat to discuss the future of mHealth and its role in shaping global health. Taking place at 1 p.m. ET Monday, December 2, the chat will use the hashtag #mHealth13 (the official hashtag for the summit). You can also participate in the chat through the #mHealth13 chat room .
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Meet our Connectors: Ron Salaj (Kosovo)

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Meet our Connectors: Ron Salaj (Kosovo)

Ron Salaj is based in Prishtina, Kosovo. He has experience with social innovation, as well as social media for social change. Ron combines an authentically participatory approach for digital disruption and innovation with commitment to youth participation and to fundamental human rights values.
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Inspiring Unilever Ad Gives You Hope For Future...

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Inspiring Unilever Ad Gives You Hope For Future...

From the director of the viral Dove experiment comes a new ad from Unilever that aims to change the way you view the world for your future children. To celebrate Universal Children's Day on Wednesday, the clip highlights the emotions related to raising a child in today's environment and the responsibility that comes with making it sustainable for the future. It follows several real-life pregnant couples as they share their anxieties about becoming new parents, before...Read More
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To Fix the US Healthcare System, Let's Look at...

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To Fix the US Healthcare System, Let's Look at...

Healthcare in the United States is a mess. In 2011, US healthcare spending reached $2.7 trillion, more than twice that of other wealthy countries, and with worse outcomes. In the United States, life expectancy is lower, infant deaths are higher, and there are fewer doctors and hospital beds available per person than other wealthy countries. The US healthcare system is not just broken; it is highly controversial. The Affordable Care Act caused the government to shut down. And, outrage over the poor website and cancelled coverage forced President Obama to publicly apologize and backtrack on elements of his healthcare plan. In order to fix our broken healthcare system, we need to look abroad for successful, scalable, and...Read More
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Celebrate the Toilet

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Celebrate the Toilet

Sometimes the things that bring the greatest benefits to our lives are also the most underappreciated. Example: toilets. Can you imagine your life without one?
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Using Tech to Fight Atrocities - An Online...

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Using Tech to Fight Atrocities - An Online...

Over the past decade, technology and social media platforms have grown at a rapid space, encouraging individuals and organizations to look for technology-based ways to combat human rights violations. Social media platforms are increasingly used to monitor conflicts and violence targeting civilians around the world. How can state, non-state actors, civil society group but also potential victims use social media platforms to build political will for mass atrocity prevention? In what ways can new technologies be used to monitor human rights violations and mass atrocity crimes? What are the challenges and barriers?
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Economy in Transition

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Economy in Transition

Since June this year (2013), several major protests with people from "all walks of life", took the streets of Brazil's main cities, the most violent ones were lead by Black Blocs movement that focused their violence against brazilian and international big corporations that according to them, represents the hegemonic economical system. Brazilian police took hard and violent measures against those manifestations, fact that generated more violence, resulting in dozens of hundreds of people injured, hundreds of public buses and properties destroyed and several hundreds bank agencies, all over Brazil, vandalised. This was the biggest social unrest and violence outbreak in the country in the last 20 years. Why is this happening in a...Read More
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Recycle and Change Lives at the Same Time

Involving the Global community in solving Global problems

Recycle and Change Lives at the Same Time

Take action by donating your device! In the past, your phone may have connected you with your best buds; now, it can help connect you with girls around the world through an awesome shared vision . Learn more about how you can help via Buy Back Tech’s FAQ page and get started . If you have any questions throughout the donation process, please email Jessica Wase at jwase@electronicrecyclers.com or check out our toolkit .
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Announcing the Winners in the Markets for Good...

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

Announcing the Winners in the Markets for Good...

Liquidnet and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partnered to source innovative new solutions to the challenge of data fragmentation in the sector. Using the Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations platform, we solicited groundbreaking solutions from across the world to help increase the interoperability of data for social good. We sought approaches that dealt with not only the technological barriers but also the policy and behavior barriers to achieving interoperability, and...Read More
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Your Reinvented Condom Questions, Answered

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

Your Reinvented Condom Questions, Answered

Steve Buchsbaum, the deputy director leading our Grand Challenges teams, dropped by Reddit to answer these and other user questions about the condom challenge.
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Mobiles to Give Sexual and Reproductive Health...

Social Good Summit 2030 NOW is unique for two reasons 1. Involving the Global community in solving Global problems 2. Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

Mobiles to Give Sexual and Reproductive Health...

Pathfinder International is exploiting mobile technology to address youth sexual and reproductive health in Mozambique and Ethiopia.
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Daughters are Dying Every Minute From...

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

Daughters are Dying Every Minute From...

And suddenly all the statistics I had been collecting, all the nameless women I had been interviewing took on the face of that pale, emaciated woman. And I could no longer be a casual bystander in the face of the horrific realities in front of me. And that is how Concerns for MDGs came into being.
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India's 'Hackathon for Women' Focuses on...

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India's 'Hackathon for Women' Focuses on...

Most hackathons bring together software coders, techies or geeks to develop applications for specific tech platforms, software languages or business areas. However, this Hackathon for Women , organized by Grace Hopper India, has its own set of goals. The hackathon, for female developers and students, focused on free and open-source software-based humanitarian projects. This year’s event saw the assembled hackers and coders building on top of three major project...Read More
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Shining a Light on Health Care Heroes

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Shining a Light on Health Care Heroes

When the sun sets tonight around the world, more than 400 maternity clinics that long labored in darkness will have light. Reliable, robust, and easy to use “Solar Suitcases” will provide light and power for midwives and doctors to deliver babies, conduct c/sections, treat pregnancy complications, and care for newborn babies in 25 countries. For many mothers and babies, that light may mean life.
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Batkid Was Beautiful — Let's Keep It Going

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

Batkid Was Beautiful — Let's Keep It Going

Earlier this week, the folks at the Make-a-Wish Foundation's San Francisco branch called me about a crazy scheme they were cooking up for a boy named Miles, who has leukemia. Because he loved Batman, they were going to drive him around the city in a borrowed Lamborghini with Batman decals, and had arranged some set pieces, such as a damsel in distress in a cable car, for Miles to participate in. At that point, some 7,000 strangers had signed up on the Make-a-Wish website to...Read More
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Animation for a Cause

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

Animation for a Cause


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Tablets Improve Family Planning Service in...

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

Tablets Improve Family Planning Service in...

In Kenya, mobile technology usage is quickly becoming more popular especially in urban areas. Various family planning solutions utilize mobile phones to send simple SMS messages to generate surveys and to share important messages to increase access to, and awareness of, family planning services.
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“Girl Friendly” Toilets Help Girls Stay in...

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

“Girl Friendly” Toilets Help Girls Stay in...

There’s something important that we use every day and that those of us in developed countries take for granted: toilets. The Catapult community funded a project to build latrines and help girls stay in school in Malawi.
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Celebrate the Toilet

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

Celebrate the Toilet

Sometimes the things that bring the greatest benefits to our lives are also the most underappreciated. Example: toilets. Can you imagine your life without one?
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To Fix the US Healthcare System, Let's Look at...

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

To Fix the US Healthcare System, Let's Look at...

Healthcare in the United States is a mess. In 2011, US healthcare spending reached $2.7 trillion, more than twice that of other wealthy countries, and with worse outcomes. In the United States, life expectancy is lower, infant deaths are higher, and there are fewer doctors and hospital beds available per person than other wealthy countries. The US healthcare system is not just broken; it is highly controversial. The Affordable Care Act caused the government to shut down. And, outrage over the poor website and cancelled coverage forced President Obama to publicly apologize and backtrack on elements of his healthcare plan. In order to fix our broken healthcare system, we need to look abroad for successful, scalable, and...Read More
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Inspiring Unilever Ad Gives You Hope For Future...

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

Inspiring Unilever Ad Gives You Hope For Future...

From the director of the viral Dove experiment comes a new ad from Unilever that aims to change the way you view the world for your future children. To celebrate Universal Children's Day on Wednesday, the clip highlights the emotions related to raising a child in today's environment and the responsibility that comes with making it sustainable for the future. It follows several real-life pregnant couples as they share their anxieties about becoming new parents, before...Read More
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Thunderclap for an AIDS-Free Future

The Social Good Summit 2030 NOW has shown the ways How Technology can we use for furthering human causes Globally. It has opened up new era of Global involvement in solving the Global issues facing humanity. A new era has begun, Congratulation to the Organizers and Congratulation to the event managers and participants throughout the Globe in more than 120 countries discussing on the same topic. A big Begening...

Thunderclap for an AIDS-Free Future

Ending pediatric AIDS is not just a dream. Reaching our goal of zero new HIV infections is entirely possible. And we're closer than ever! This World AIDS Day, December 1, we're gonna shout it from the virtual rooftops! We won't stop fighting until an AIDS-Free generation is reality.  Every day, more than 700 babies are born HIV-positive. Without treatment, more than 80% of these children will die by their 5th birthday. We can change this!  Action -- not words -- will win the war. Join the fight for an AIDS-free future today:  pedaids.org/thunderclap
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mHealth in Action: CommCare to Support...

The Social Good Summit 2030 NOW has shown the ways How Technology can we use for furthering human causes Globally. It has opened up new era of Global involvement in solving the Global issues facing humanity. A new era has begun, Congratulation to the Organizers and Congratulation to the event managers and participants throughout the Globe in more than 120 countries discussing on the same topic. A big Begening...

mHealth in Action: CommCare to Support...

The second stop of my 10-day, 6-city journey across India took me to a village called Barwani, approximately three hours southwest of Indore in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
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Meet our Connectors: Ron Salaj (Kosovo)

The Social Good Summit 2030 NOW has shown the ways How Technology can we use for furthering human causes Globally. It has opened up new era of Global involvement in solving the Global issues facing humanity. A new era has begun, Congratulation to the Organizers and Congratulation to the event managers and participants throughout the Globe in more than 120 countries discussing on the same topic. A big Begening...

Meet our Connectors: Ron Salaj (Kosovo)

Ron Salaj is based in Prishtina, Kosovo. He has experience with social innovation, as well as social media for social change. Ron combines an authentically participatory approach for digital disruption and innovation with commitment to youth participation and to fundamental human rights values.
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Four Thoughts on the 2013 ASTMH Annual Meeting

The Social Good Summit 2030 NOW has shown the ways How Technology can we use for furthering human causes Globally. It has opened up new era of Global involvement in solving the Global issues facing humanity. A new era has begun, Congratulation to the Organizers and Congratulation to the event managers and participants throughout the Globe in more than 120 countries discussing on the same topic. A big Begening...

Four Thoughts on the 2013 ASTMH Annual Meeting

Written by Daniel G. Bausch, MD, MPH&TM, ASTMH Councilor, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans/NAMRU-6, Lima, Peru. Another ASTMH Annual Meeting down, by rough count my 19th. Cutting through the fatigue of 5-days of non-stop juggling of symposium attendance, satellite conferences, and impromptu meetings with collaborators and friends, I identify what have come to be the usual mix of thoughts and emotions, which keep me coming back year after year: Inspiration! Everywhere you turn amazingly smart and productive people are doing great science and public health work! How can I take what I learned from listening to researchers talking about their one-health projects in Kenya or studies in urban slums in Brazil to...Read More
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5 reasons to get excited for the future of mHealth

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5 reasons to get excited for the future of mHealth

As a primer discussion for the 2013 mHealth Summit , mHealth News ( @mhealth_news ) is hosting a Twitter Chat to discuss the future of mHealth and its role in shaping global health. Taking place at 1 p.m. ET Monday, December 2, the chat will use the hashtag #mHealth13 (the official hashtag for the summit). You can also participate in the chat through the #mHealth13 chat room .
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Using Tech to Fight Atrocities - An Online...

Social Good Summit 2030 NOW is unique for two reasons 1. Involving the Global community in solving Global problems 2. Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

Using Tech to Fight Atrocities - An Online...

Over the past decade, technology and social media platforms have grown at a rapid space, encouraging individuals and organizations to look for technology-based ways to combat human rights violations. Social media platforms are increasingly used to monitor conflicts and violence targeting civilians around the world. How can state, non-state actors, civil society group but also potential victims use social media platforms to build political will for mass atrocity prevention? In what ways can new technologies be used to monitor human rights violations and mass atrocity crimes? What are the challenges and barriers?
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Economy in Transition

Social Good Summit 2030 NOW is unique for two reasons 1. Involving the Global community in solving Global problems 2. Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

Economy in Transition

Since June this year (2013), several major protests with people from "all walks of life", took the streets of Brazil's main cities, the most violent ones were lead by Black Blocs movement that focused their violence against brazilian and international big corporations that according to them, represents the hegemonic economical system. Brazilian police took hard and violent measures against those manifestations, fact that generated more violence, resulting in dozens of hundreds of people injured, hundreds of public buses and properties destroyed and several hundreds bank agencies, all over Brazil, vandalised. This was the biggest social unrest and violence outbreak in the country in the last 20 years. Why is this happening in a...Read More
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Recycle and Change Lives at the Same Time

Social Good Summit 2030 NOW is unique for two reasons 1. Involving the Global community in solving Global problems 2. Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

Recycle and Change Lives at the Same Time

Take action by donating your device! In the past, your phone may have connected you with your best buds; now, it can help connect you with girls around the world through an awesome shared vision . Learn more about how you can help via Buy Back Tech’s FAQ page and get started . If you have any questions throughout the donation process, please email Jessica Wase at jwase@electronicrecyclers.com or check out our toolkit .
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5 reasons to get excited for the future of mHealth

mHealth programs are becoming increasingly integrated with e-commerce/banking/finance application for social reach

5 reasons to get excited for the future of mHealth

As a primer discussion for the 2013 mHealth Summit , mHealth News ( @mhealth_news ) is hosting a Twitter Chat to discuss the future of mHealth and its role in shaping global health. Taking place at 1 p.m. ET Monday, December 2, the chat will use the hashtag #mHealth13 (the official hashtag for the summit). You can also participate in the chat through the #mHealth13 chat room .
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Meet our Connectors: Kate Berrisford (South...

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

Meet our Connectors: Kate Berrisford (South...

Kate is an African entrepreneur with a passion for connecting people and organizations around sustainability issues and is particularly interested in helping to accelerate and scale up a green and sustainable future for Africa through her work. Kate founded the first pan-African green networking directory - the Green Africa Directory - to inspire and accelerate sustainability across all sectors in Africa and to help raise awareness, facilitate knowledge-sharing, enable collaboration and ignite innovation. Kate believes that online and social media have increasingly large potential to bring together people globally with the knowledge, skills, passion and determination to create a sustainable future for all generations. Kate...Read More
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15 Holiday Gifts That Give Back

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

15 Holiday Gifts That Give Back

Consumerism permeates the holiday season every year, but buying gifts and enacting social change don't have to be mutually exclusive activities. Forgo traditional gifts this year and discover ethical, eco-friendly, socially conscious alternatives that benefit a wide variety of causes at the same time. Whether it's supporting artisans in developing countries or donating proceeds to local non-profits, you'll find holiday gifts that make a real difference. See also: 4...Read More
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Announcing the Winners in the Markets for Good...

Social Good Summit 2030 NOW is unique for two reasons 1. Involving the Global community in solving Global problems 2. Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

Announcing the Winners in the Markets for Good...

Liquidnet and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partnered to source innovative new solutions to the challenge of data fragmentation in the sector. Using the Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations platform, we solicited groundbreaking solutions from across the world to help increase the interoperability of data for social good. We sought approaches that dealt with not only the technological barriers but also the policy and behavior barriers to achieving interoperability, and...Read More
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Four Thoughts on the 2013 ASTMH Annual Meeting

Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

Four Thoughts on the 2013 ASTMH Annual Meeting

Written by Daniel G. Bausch, MD, MPH&TM, ASTMH Councilor, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans/NAMRU-6, Lima, Peru. Another ASTMH Annual Meeting down, by rough count my 19th. Cutting through the fatigue of 5-days of non-stop juggling of symposium attendance, satellite conferences, and impromptu meetings with collaborators and friends, I identify what have come to be the usual mix of thoughts and emotions, which keep me coming back year after year: Inspiration! Everywhere you turn amazingly smart and productive people are doing great science and public health work! How can I take what I learned from listening to researchers talking about their one-health projects in Kenya or studies in urban slums in Brazil to...Read More
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Getting Men Involved In Gender Equity!

Social Good Summit 2030 NOW is unique for two reasons 1. Involving the Global community in solving Global problems 2. Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

Getting Men Involved In Gender Equity!

A word from our Connector, Aurelie Salvarie, on how men can get involved in gender equality.
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Connector Mac-Jordan Degadjor on Outstanding...

Social Good Summit 2030 NOW is unique for two reasons 1. Involving the Global community in solving Global problems 2. Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

Connector Mac-Jordan Degadjor on Outstanding...

The GhanaThink Foundation is a youth-led NGO based in Ghana & the US. Its primary goal is to harness the diverse talents of Ghanaians in Ghana and the diaspora for the benefit of Ghana, and by extension Africa and the world. In effect, it seeks to mobilize and organize talent and resources for the service of Ghana. With the idea generations and discussions that come out of this, it seeks to support these ideas into projects, programs and ventures.GhanaThink's landmark initiative now is Barcamp Ghana . These Barcamps provide a platform for youth to network, discuss important issues, and develop new partnerships. With 24 events and counting since December 2008, Barcamp Ghana has been the launchpad for business start-ups (such...Read More
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Heeding the Call: Project Agos Maps Disaster in...

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

Heeding the Call: Project Agos Maps Disaster in...

Rappler's Project Agos helps save lives after Typhoon Haiyan.
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No Time To Lose

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

No Time To Lose

On December 2-3, world leaders will gather in Washington D.C. to demonstrate global unity, and launch funding commitments to the fight to defeat AIDS, TB, and malaria for the next three years.
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The Power of Collaborative Innovation

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

The Power of Collaborative Innovation

Fifteen years ago, there was a wave of fresh talent in India’s IT sector. At the time, graduates focused heavily on using new economic opportunities and getting a feel of new ground. In the years that followed, this interest in technology led to a boom in shared technology spaces; primarily call centres, start-ups, service providers and consultancies. Despite this, a large number of those who worked in the IT sector were left dissatisfied because there were not enough opportunities to channel their creativity. The result of this echoed in every conversation about Indian IT on the global stage. The key question that was central to every conversation - where is the average citizen going wrong in leveraging the power of his or her...Read More
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Reverse Innovation in mHealth

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

Reverse Innovation in mHealth

I recently interviewed Kirsten Gagnaire,   Global Director of the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA). MAMA is a public-private  partnership that  provides relevant information to pregnant women and local healthcare workers  text and voice messages.    MAMA credits its success- reaching 530,000 mothers in 60 countries- with a focus on local relevance and rapid prototyping. "We don't just translate- we localise the content and target local myths. We look at the literacy rate and the level of comfort with technology," says Gagnaire. MAMA relies heavily on focus groups, bringing in the whole spectrum of healthcare stakeholders into early conversations - from community health providers to...Read More
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mHealth+SocialGood

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

mHealth+SocialGood

Join the conversation! Share your vision for the future of mHealth using #mHealth13 and #socialgood.
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A Whole New Year

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

A Whole New Year

We want to know: What do you want to see in 2014?
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#GivingTuesday Makes Your "Selfies" Selfless

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

#GivingTuesday Makes Your "Selfies" Selfless

Tag your next selfie with #unselfie to show your support for #GivingTuesday
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Using Tech to Fight Atrocities - An Online...

Social Good Summit was one of its kind events. It brought together the minds from around the world to focus on single subject matter. It has played a crucial role in creating awareness towards major problems that we are or will be facing and also inspires us to find a solution for them. It forces us to take actions today for impending troubles of tomorrow.

Using Tech to Fight Atrocities - An Online...

Over the past decade, technology and social media platforms have grown at a rapid space, encouraging individuals and organizations to look for technology-based ways to combat human rights violations. Social media platforms are increasingly used to monitor conflicts and violence targeting civilians around the world. How can state, non-state actors, civil society group but also potential victims use social media platforms to build political will for mass atrocity prevention? In what ways can new technologies be used to monitor human rights violations and mass atrocity crimes? What are the challenges and barriers?
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The Social Good Summit 2030 NOW has shown the ways How Technology can we use for furthering human causes Globally. It has opened up new era of Global involvement in solving the Global issues facing humanity. A new era has begun, Congratulation to the Organizers and Congratulation to the event managers and participants throughout the Globe in more than 120 countries discussing on the same topic. A big Begening...

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+SocialGood unites innovators, social entrepreneurs, and thought leaders around a shared vision: The power of technology and new media to make the world a better place. Join our global community
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24 Hours of Reality

The Social Good Summit 2030 NOW has shown the ways How Technology can we use for furthering human causes Globally. It has opened up new era of Global involvement in solving the Global issues facing humanity. A new era has begun, Congratulation to the Organizers and Congratulation to the event managers and participants throughout the Globe in more than 120 countries discussing on the same topic. A big Begening...

24 Hours of Reality

Twenty-four hours of climate reality? Mashable and The Climate Reality Project host a live-streamed global event on the cost of carbon.
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ASK AN EXPERT: Changing Taste, Changing Farms

The Social Good Summit 2030 NOW has shown the ways How Technology can we use for furthering human causes Globally. It has opened up new era of Global involvement in solving the Global issues facing humanity. A new era has begun, Congratulation to the Organizers and Congratulation to the event managers and participants throughout the Globe in more than 120 countries discussing on the same topic. A big Begening...

ASK AN EXPERT: Changing Taste, Changing Farms


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Food Security Webcast with Dan Glickman

Food Security Webcast with Dan Glickman

We sit down to discuss the food security with former Secretary of Agriculture, Dan Glickman with host Marie Nelson, Senior Director & Executive Producer, News & Original Programming - BET Networks. Before his appointment as Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Glickman served for 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives representing the 4th Congressional District of Kansas. During that time, he was a member of the House Agriculture Committee, including six years as chairman of the subcommittee with jurisdiction over federal farm policy issues. RSVP here:http://on.fb.me/1gOwohx Tune in LIVE:  http://ow.ly/pQ8RY
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“Mobile Midwife” Empowers Ghanaian Women

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“Mobile Midwife” Empowers Ghanaian Women

A collaborative initiative spearheaded by the Gremeen Foundation, the Mobile Technology for Community Health (MOTECH), was launched in 2008 with the goal of using cell phones to increase the quantity and quality of prenatal and neonatal care in rural Ghana and improving health outcomes for mothers and their newborns.
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A Whole New Year

The Social Good Summit 2030 NOW has shown the ways How Technology can we use for furthering human causes Globally

A Whole New Year

We want to know: What do you want to see in 2014?
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Recycle and Change Lives at the Same Time

The Social Good Summit 2030 NOW has shown the ways How Technology can we use for furthering human causes Globally. It has opened up new era of Global involvement in solving the Global issues facing humanity. A new era has begun, Congratulation to the Organizers and Congratulation to the event managers and participants throughout the Globe in more than 120 countries discussing on the same topic. A big Begening...

Recycle and Change Lives at the Same Time

Take action by donating your device! In the past, your phone may have connected you with your best buds; now, it can help connect you with girls around the world through an awesome shared vision . Learn more about how you can help via Buy Back Tech’s FAQ page and get started . If you have any questions throughout the donation process, please email Jessica Wase at jwase@electronicrecyclers.com or check out our toolkit .
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mHealth+SocialGood: Envisioning the Future to...

Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

mHealth+SocialGood: Envisioning the Future to...

This December, as thousands of experts, innovators, and leaders from government, business, and civil society come together at the fifth annual mHealth Summit , the mHealth Alliance – in partnership with Johnson + Johnson, HIMSS and MAMA – will host mHealt h+SocialGood . This interactive event will bring the community together to discuss some of the most pressing questions and most exciting opportunities for the future of mobile health and, more broadly, mobile for social good.
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Economy in Transition

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Economy in Transition

Since June this year (2013), several major protests with people from "all walks of life", took the streets of Brazil's main cities, the most violent ones were lead by Black Blocs movement that focused their violence against brazilian and international big corporations that according to them, represents the hegemonic economical system. Brazilian police took hard and violent measures against those manifestations, fact that generated more violence, resulting in dozens of hundreds of people injured, hundreds of public buses and properties destroyed and several hundreds bank agencies, all over Brazil, vandalised. This was the biggest social unrest and violence outbreak in the country in the last 20 years. Why is this happening in a...Read More
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Social Good Summit 2013 - Bujumbura

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Social Good Summit 2013 - Bujumbura

Plus de deux cent participants, majoritairement des étudiants, ont participé activement au Sommet pour le bien social organisé le 24 septembre 2013 à Bujumbura. Le PNUD, l'UNICEF, le Programme des Volontaires des Nations Unies et le Centre d'Information des Nations Unies ont collaboré avec l'Université des Grands Lacs qui a accueilli l'évènement au sein de son auditoire.
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Using Tech to Fight Atrocities - An Online...

The Social Good Summit 2030 NOW has shown the ways How Technology can we use for furthering human causes Globally. It has opened up new era of Global involvement in solving the Global issues facing humanity. A new era has begun, Congratulation to the Organizers and Congratulation to the event managers and participants throughout the Globe in more than 120 countries discussing on the same topic. A big Begening...

Using Tech to Fight Atrocities - An Online...

Over the past decade, technology and social media platforms have grown at a rapid space, encouraging individuals and organizations to look for technology-based ways to combat human rights violations. Social media platforms are increasingly used to monitor conflicts and violence targeting civilians around the world. How can state, non-state actors, civil society group but also potential victims use social media platforms to build political will for mass atrocity prevention? In what ways can new technologies be used to monitor human rights violations and mass atrocity crimes? What are the challenges and barriers?
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Social Good Summit 2013

The Social Good Summit 2030 NOW has shown the ways How Technology can we use for furthering human causes Globally. It has opened up new era of Global involvement in solving the Global issues facing humanity. A new era has begun, Congratulation to the Organizers and Congratulation to the event managers and participants throughout the Globe in more than 120 countries discussing on the same topic. A big Begening...

Social Good Summit 2013

Three Days. Six continents. Millions of connections. One big idea: #2030NOW
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mHealth+SocialGood

Social Good Summit 2030 NOW is unique for two reasons 1. Involving the Global community in solving Global problems 2. Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

mHealth+SocialGood

Join the conversation! Share your vision for the future of mHealth using #mHealth13 and #socialgood.
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Lean For Social Good Summit

Social Good Summit 2030 NOW is unique for two reasons 1. Involving the Global community in solving Global problems 2. Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

Lean For Social Good Summit

Join Lean Impact for the first-ever Lean for Social Good Summit in New York on December 5th, 2013 at the Tishman Auditorium at The New School. You’ll join an incredible group of nonprofit leaders, social entrepreneurs, Lean Startup experts, philanthropists, funders, and innovators for the inaugural Lean for Social Good Summit. There’s no better way to understand how to use Lean for Social Good, than hearing from 20 amazing organizations who are putting theory into practice at the Lean for Social Good Summit! http://www.leanimpact.org/ny/
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Faith+GivingTuesday+SocialGood

Social Good Summit 2030 NOW is unique for two reasons 1. Involving the Global community in solving Global problems 2. Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

Faith+GivingTuesday+SocialGood

This unique +SocialGood summit on #GivingTuesday will highlight the vital role that faith communities play in advancing the common good through philanthropy. Faith+GivingTuesday+SocialGood will connect social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, community organizers, technology developers, nonprofit leaders, government officials, and other innovators. Our three themes are: Beyond Isolation : for most Americans, while faith can bring people together, faith-based organizations working for the common good tend largely to operate within their own community contexts. Faith+GivingTuesday+SocialGood will help close the communications gaps not only between religiously-identified organizations and the broader third sector, but also...Read More
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No Time To Lose

Social Good Summit 2030 NOW is unique for two reasons 1. Involving the Global community in solving Global problems 2. Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

No Time To Lose

On December 2-3, world leaders will gather in Washington D.C. to demonstrate global unity, and launch funding commitments to the fight to defeat AIDS, TB, and malaria for the next three years.
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Why Do You Give?

Social Good Summit 2030 NOW is unique for two reasons 1. Involving the Global community in solving Global problems 2. Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

Why Do You Give?

Let us know how you plan on giving back, this #GivingTuesday and beyond!
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Now Introducing: +SocialGood Badges

Social Good Summit 2030 NOW is unique for two reasons 1. Involving the Global community in solving Global problems 2. Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

Now Introducing: +SocialGood Badges

Are you a strong advocate for technology and social good? Let your passion show when you win a +SocialGood badge!
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Animation for a Cause

Social Good Summit 2030 NOW is unique for two reasons 1. Involving the Global community in solving Global problems 2. Use of Technology and Social Media to unite and create Global citizens

Animation for a Cause


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