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MFA Design for Social Innovation to Host Design Summit
MFA Design for Social Innovation (DSI) at the School of Visual Arts in New York will host Measured Summit, a two-day gathering in January 2017, to mark its fifth anniversary as the only master of fine arts degree in Social Innovation Design.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
- Region
- North America
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- innovation, product design
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Global Health Interventions Need to Hit the Ground Running. Here’s Some Pre-Race Help.
A recent white paper describes a “six-month window” in which global health interventions need to take shape, or else most of them are doomed. To help get things right from the start, and ultimately achieve scale, USAID’s Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact recently published “Ready, Set, Launch: A Country-Level Launch Planning Guide for Global Health Innovations.”
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- Health Care
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- innovation, research, scale
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Microsoft and partners launch Intelligent Network for Eyecare in India
Microsoft India and the L V Prasad Eye Institute recently launched the Microsoft Intelligent Network for Eyecare (MINE), a global consortium of commercial, research and academic institutions who have joined hands to apply artificial intelligence to deliver eye care services and help eradicate preventive blindness.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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3 highlights about Shyam Sunder Bedekar’s Rs 2.5 sanitary pad and incinerator social enterprise
Rural innovations have something beautiful about them. Solutions made by innovators who are in sync with the surroundings and serving the need of the hour. Shyam Sunder Bedekar’s Sakhi pads and the low-cost incinerator make one such example that have been written about widely. YourStory also covered the story in November and it has been very well received by readers.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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“Civic Tech” is One Antidote to Trumpism, and the Omidyar Network is Doubling Down Here
If you think about it, the age of Trump is tailor made for the Omidyar Network, and on several counts. First, this has never been an outfit that's placed lots of chips on securing big public policy wins in Washington, D.C.—or really even been fixated on policy at all. Instead, Omidyar has placed much of its faith in market solutions, as well as social entrepreneurs working in a decentralized fashion to reinvent the nonprofit sector and revitalize civic life. The fact that the capital of the free world is now in the hands of backward-looking reactionaries aiming to gut government makes Omidyar's vision of change all the more appealing.
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- Technology
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- innovation
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With help from Bill Gates, this lab is reinventing its approach to invention
Global Good, a collaboration between the invention company Intellectual Ventures and the billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, today announced a new partnership around a bioelectronic treatment initiative to address the leading cause of maternal deaths worldwide.
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- Health Care
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With ‘Silicon Valley’ model, UNICEF invests in tech start-ups working to improve children’s lives
Using a venture capital approach – investing in companies with short track records but long-term growth possibilities – the United Nations Children’s Fund announced today the first five emerging market start-ups to which it will provide seed money to source solutions for issues like transportation, wearable technology, finance, and personal data.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Viewpoint: Johnson & Johnson Launches $100k Africa Innovation Challenge
Multinational pharmaceutical and medical devices manufacturer Johnson & Johnson has launched its Africa Innovation Challenge, which will reward a number of solutions in the health and family spaces with up to US$100,000 in funding and mentorship.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- innovation
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