Topic: Haiti

A Winner in Haiti

Recently named TED Fellow Peter Hass, Founder and CEO of the Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG) announced the winner of AIDG’s Haiti business plan competition.   “We are excited to invest in COOPEN, a ...READ»

Education: Goal-Oriented Gaming

I grew up with the belief firmly implanted in my head that video games were a bad influence that would distract me from more constructive pursuits, namely, reading. If the Internet had been as engrossing as it is now among kids, then ...READ»

Go Ahead Stick Your Head in the Sand, Just Don't Do it in Haiti

As globalization bridges the gap between the developed and the developing world, countries and cultures that were once off-limits are now as close as a mouse click away. Not only is it possible to look up information about the ...READ»

Innovative Giving: The Open Architecture Network

The Open Architecture Network is the first collaborative forum to provide access to architecture plans and blueprints online. The second entry in our six-part series on innovative giving.READ»

Five Endangered Cultural Monuments That Need Your Help

The World Monuments Fund has released its annual watch list of architectural and heritage sites desperately in need of preservation. Five are especially hard-hit from recent political and environmental events.READ»

Can a Game Be Journalism? Play 'Six Days In Fallujah' to Find Out

Six Days in Fallujah isn't the title of a war correspondent's missives from the frontlines. It's not even a book about the Iraq war. It's a video game due out next year from Konami--albeit one where the ricocheting bullets, ...READ»

No Loose Screws

A new model for local business development.READ»

Inside PopTech's Solar-Powered Bag FLAP: Shining a Light Here at Home

In the final installment of our story about a new solar bag by PopTech, Cordelia Newlin de Rojas travels to the Navajo Nation to demonstrate how there's a need for the FLAP in our own backyard.READ»

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MDR-TB: The Galapagos Effect in Health Care

I hope I got your attention with my last post about the Pacific Health Summit and the acute global threat of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB). All of the issues around innovation in public health that I are covered in this ...READ»

Annual Diversity Immigrant Visa Program Entries Rise

Over 900,000 entries for the Annual Diversity Immigrant Visa Program have already been submitted for 2011. This was just during the initial week – a 63% increase over last year. READ»

The Tropicalization of Digitization and Global Red-Light Districts

Bruce Sterling is an internationally acclaimed author who lives in Austin, Texas. Having produced a steady stream of enlightening essays and ground-breaking science fiction since 1976, Sterling's most recent book is Tomorrow Now. In ...READ»

China's New Oil Supplier

When my plane smacks down in Equatorial Guinea -- where if the captain misses the runway, you could end up in Cameroon -- I become the first American journalist to visit this pint-sized republic (population: 550,000) in nearly three ...READ»

Camp Hill

Hip-hop Grammy winner Lauryn Hill and her Refugee Project charity send 100 at-risk teenagers to Camp Hill, a two-week retreat designed to enhance campers' cultural awareness and self-esteem.READ»

No Child Left Offline

The Fast Interview: MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte on Intel's "dishonesty" and the long, tough road to the $100 laptop.READ»

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Blanket America's Charitable Capitalism Is Going Viral

Blanket America devised an innovative approach to charity that juxtaposes social good with the mechanism of capitalism. Here's how it works. [Viral Loop Chronicles part 4]READ»

Positive Deviant

Jerry Sternin's job was to help save starving children in Vietnam. Faced with an impossible time frame, he adopted a radical approach to making change. His idea: Real change begins from the inside.READ»

The New Fabric of Success

Grupo M, the largest private employer in the Dominican Republic, makes clothes for Abercrombie Fitch, Hugo Boss, and Tommy Hilfiger. But this is no Third World sweatshop. Instead, it's stitching together a sophisticated pattern of growth.READ»

Operation - Leadership

General Peter Schoomaker sees a new world of crisis and conflict that requires "creative solutions in ambiguous circumstances." His assignment: the recruitment and training of a new kind of problem-solving, combat-ready "warrior diplomat."READ»