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Unleashing the Leadership Capacity of Young People

Unleashing the Leadership Capacity of Young People

On March 8 th , at the invitation of Synergos Board Member Kim Samuel, had the pleasure of attending University for a Night as one of the Distinguished Faculty. Following an inspiring panel discussion about leadership with Paul Polman (CEO of Unilever), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Minister of Finance for Nigeria), and Peggy Dulany of Synergos, I had the opportunity to lead a table discussion on the topic of “Unleashing the Leadership Capacity of Young People”. Our discussion led to key insights and recommendations that I am delighted to share on behalf of the group: a) Exposure - Leadership capability is rooted in the ability to imagine the possibilities, for example a world without conflict. ...Read More

5 Innovations That Will Transform India in the...

5 Innovations That Will Transform India in the...

Key takeaways from India +SocialGood

+Social Good & Enactus Google Hangout Session

+Social Good & Enactus Google Hangout Session

Please join us for a +Social Good & Enactus Google Hangout session on April 15! Enactus staff from all over the world will share more about this global community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using entrepreneurial action to enable real human progress. We will share more on the impactful student lead community outreach projects, entrepreneurship and how to get involved with Enactus. Staff from the United States, India and the Netherlands will join. Plus, we will have a live feed during the Awards Ceremony of the Enactus National Competition in London, UK. An event where our UK students showcase their empowering projects focused on transforming lives in a sustainable way. At the culmination of this...Read More

What 21st-Century Social Challenge Do You Want...

What 21st-Century Social Challenge Do You Want...

Apply for the Halcyon Incubator fellowship

Library For All

Library For All

On a recent trip to Australia I happen to connect with someone from Library For All and got to learn first hand about what it's all about and what's happening.... A little more info: Library for All is a non-profit organization that exists to unlock knowledge to those without access to books in developing countries. To achieve this ambitious goal, Library For All is building a platform that will enable the delivery of ebooks to developing communities, at a much lower cost than building physical libraries. The content is accessed via mobile phone networks found across the developing world, and is made available on low-cost devices such as tablets, mobile phones and PCs. One of the biggest social challenges of our time is...Read More

Library For All

Library For All

On a recent trip to Australia I happen to connect with someone from Library For All and got to learn first hand about what it's all about and what's happening.... A little more info: Library for All is a non-profit organization that exists to unlock knowledge to those without access to books in developing countries. To achieve this ambitious goal, Library For All is building a platform that will enable the delivery of ebooks to developing communities, at a much lower cost than building physical libraries. The content is accessed via mobile phone networks found across the developing world, and is made available on low-cost devices such as tablets, mobile phones and PCs. One of the biggest social challenges of our time is...Read More

Trading Up to Lower Carbon in Bangalore

Trading Up to Lower Carbon in Bangalore

Electric trading markets that allow consumers to procure blocks of energy directly from generation providers have existed for a long [...] Read the full post here.

5 Innovations That Will Transform India in the...

5 Innovations That Will Transform India in the...

MUMBAI, India — Following the United States and China, India is the world’s third largest Internet population. The country is projected to be home to 243 million Internet users by June 2014 -– but that’s still only a fraction of the country’s 1.2 billion population As access to the Internet penetrates deeper into the Indian population, it is changing the ways politicians campaign, companies lead and people connect. See also: 15 Joyful Photos...Read More

Trading Up to Lower Carbon in Bangalore

Trading Up to Lower Carbon in Bangalore

Electric trading markets that allow consumers to procure blocks of energy directly from generation providers have existed for a long [...] Read the full post here.

Wrapping up the India +SocialGood Conversation

Wrapping up the India +SocialGood Conversation

See highlights from the +SocialGood event in India.

UX for Good 2014

UX for Good 2014

The Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre is built on the site of a mass grave, housing the remains of 250,000 Rwandans who were killed over three months in 1994. Like all such memorials, it is intended as an antidote to genocide itself – teaching us and moving us to ensure we will never again be detached and complicit. But, for the most part, we remain unchanged. Virtually every visitor to a genocide memorial or holocaust museum can attest to overwhelming feelings of sympathy, sadness and outrage. Schoolchildren and world leaders alike leave speechless. But most visitors can also attest that they did nothing substantively differently as a result. The profound feelings genocide memorials elicit are a powerful fuel. What...Read More

UX for Good 2014

UX for Good 2014

The Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre is built on the site of a mass grave, housing the remains of 250,000 Rwandans who were killed over three months in 1994. Like all such memorials, it is intended as an antidote to genocide itself – teaching us and moving us to ensure we will never again be detached and complicit. But, for the most part, we remain unchanged. Virtually every visitor to a genocide memorial or holocaust museum can attest to overwhelming feelings of sympathy, sadness and outrage. Schoolchildren and world leaders alike leave speechless. But most visitors can also attest that they did nothing substantively differently as a result. The profound feelings genocide memorials elicit are a powerful fuel. What...Read More

300 Million People Need Your Help, Are You In?

300 Million People Need Your Help, Are You In?

Last week in Paris marked the second meeting of the G20 Employment Taskforce- one of the six official working groups of the world’s premier economic and financial forum. At the St Petersburg G20 Summit in 2013, world leaders committed to come to Brisbane in 2014 with a concrete action plan referred to as a ‘comprehensive growth strategy’ that outlines the steps they will commit to taking to drive economic growth in their respective countries. Within each of these plans lies an ‘individual country employment plan’ that focuses on boosting employment and lifting participation. It’s the latter of these two strategies that the taskforce on employment is responsible for. As Chair of the G20 Youth Summit, I headed to Paris with a...Read More

Youth Voices on Global Partnerships for...

Youth Voices on Global Partnerships for...

Meet the seven young leaders heading to a high level meeting in Mexico to discuss the future of development with more than 1000 world leaders. Head to the Youth Voices on Global Partnerships for Effective Developement page to chat to the team and get your opinions heard!

Apply to Attend Our Innovations in Global...

Apply to Attend Our Innovations in Global...

Are you a tweeter who cares about innovations in global health? Do you want to learn more about what it takes to create life-saving drugs, vaccines and diagnostics to tackle the world’s biggest health challenges?

From Selfies to Thunderclaps: 7 Ways to Pump Up...

From Selfies to Thunderclaps: 7 Ways to Pump Up...

The latest report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that a changing climate will cause an array of new environmental problems — and there's no better day to respond than on Earth Day Over a billion people in 190 countries celebrate Earth Day each year with a variety of outdoor activities or action events, according to the Earth Day Network . The annual event, which began in 1970 and is celebrated on April 22, this year's global focus...Read More

Online Charitable Donations Increased 14% in 2013

Online Charitable Donations Increased 14% in 2013

Gone are the days when non-profits needed to rely only on street canvassing and paper pleas for donations. Email and social media are quickly revolutionizing charity, and according to a new study from M+R and the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) , 2013 was the space's best year yet. See also: 9 Non-Profits That Get Web Humor The study breaks down exactly how leading U.S. non-profits performed online in the past year. In 2013, Internet users donated more than ever...Read More

What Happened at the “Reinvent the Toilet Fair:...

What Happened at the “Reinvent the Toilet Fair:...

We saw a tremendous amount of progress at the 2014 “Reinvent the Toilet Fair: India” we held in New Delhi last month. Just 18 months after the first fair, our partners came to New Delhi with early versions of toilets that look like real commercial products. It was amazing to see so many ideas and technologies integrated into devices that can safely collect and processes human waste.

UX for Good 2014

UX for Good 2014

The Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre is built on the site of a mass grave, housing the remains of 250,000 Rwandans who were killed over three months in 1994. Like all such memorials, it is intended as an antidote to genocide itself – teaching us and moving us to ensure we will never again be detached and complicit. But, for the most part, we remain unchanged. Virtually every visitor to a genocide memorial or holocaust museum can attest to overwhelming feelings of sympathy, sadness and outrage. Schoolchildren and world leaders alike leave speechless. But most visitors can also attest that they did nothing substantively differently as a result. The profound feelings genocide memorials elicit are a powerful fuel. What...Read More

Unleashing the Leadership Capacity of Young People

Unleashing the Leadership Capacity of Young People

On March 8 th , at the invitation of Synergos Board Member Kim Samuel, had the pleasure of attending University for a Night as one of the Distinguished Faculty. Following an inspiring panel discussion about leadership with Paul Polman (CEO of Unilever), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Minister of Finance for Nigeria), and Peggy Dulany of Synergos, I had the opportunity to lead a table discussion on the topic of “Unleashing the Leadership Capacity of Young People”. Our discussion led to key insights and recommendations that I am delighted to share on behalf of the group: a) Exposure - Leadership capability is rooted in the ability to imagine the possibilities, for example a world without conflict. ...Read More

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