Dusting Off My Inner Nerd
Like most engineers, I spent my youth either taking household electronics apart or playing with legos . Both activities exhibit a fascination with the simple pieces that make up more complex objects. Surrounded by naked circuit boards , I no longer posses the desire to destroy a radio in search of...
ASN MEMBER AND ASHOKA FELLOW TEAM UP FOR GIRL TECH
Due to their shared dedication to empowering young women, German ASN member Reinhard Gorenflos and Ashoka Fellow Regina Agyare were introduced through the Ashoka Globalizer Summit on Youth Empowerment in Africa in February 2015. Reinhard founded Tua Res Foundation in 2012 and Regina founded Soronko...
New video: Mobile Technology Inventions in Rural India: The Case for Building Business-Social Bridges
A great new video out of the Ashoka-Lemelson partnership. Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow Hilmi Quraishi and Microsoft partner to exchange knowledge, scale Hilmi's mobile inventions, and demonstrate the power of collaboration between the private and citizen sectors:
Open Economies, Open Societies, Open Governments: A Collaborative Approach To Community Development
On June 10, 2013, one week before world leaders gather for the G8 Summit in London , Ashoka will join the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Foundation, Mashable, and the 92nd Street Y to launch G-Everyone , a day of dialogue that invites...
Waiting to Take Off
It’s been 5 months into the Young Champions program, and it’s difficult to believe I’m more than halfway to the end of a journey which seems like it just started. January has been a month of exploration for me, as I work on creating a model of sustainability for the community resource centers. I’m...
MILLEE: Education and Mobile Phone Games
Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies ( MILLEE ), a non-profit organization uses mobile phone games to improve literacy skills in emerging countries. Founded in 2004, MILLEE develops human-centred, immersive and enjoyable language learning mobile games which are modelled...
Movirtu and frog design team up to create "telecom cloud"
MOVIRTU COLLABORATES WITH FROG DESIGN ON USER INTERFACE INNOVATION Global innovation firm frog design will assist Movirtu to ensure quick navigation and ease of use of their MX series of products for a population in need Movirtu, a supplier of innovative network infrastructure solutions for mobile...
Growing Great Ideas: a STEM Story
In the spring of 2009, I set out on a quest to expose students in metro Atlanta schools to a fun and engaging experience in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. I love these subjects and believe in the skills and perspective that they give to students. I had first shown...
Dissatisfied with the poor performance of Brazil in the field of information technologies and software development and convinced that the country had enormous creative potential, Silvio Meira created the Recife Centre for Advanced Studies and Systems (CESAR) in 1996. A unique, public-private non...
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