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ShEntrepreneur: Who Says She Can't Change the World?
This post was written by Njideka Harry, Ashoka Fellow and CEO & Founder of the Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF), an innovative non-profit company focused on using the power of technology to transform the lives of rural youth and women living in developing countries. Prior to founding YTF...
What's the Endgame of Knowledge?
Once, long ago, social change meant "give a man a fish." Then we figured out that "teach a man to fish" could be more lasting. Innovative knowledge entrepreneurs in rural areas of India, Africa and Latin America are taking things one step further. The latest direction would best be summarized as,...
Collaborating on Rural Innovation and Farming at Globalizer 2012
Editor's note: This post was written by Lauren Batcheck who works with the Ashoka Rural Innovation and Farming (RIF) Venture Collaborative Entrepreneurship (VCE) Program. How do you increase the wellbeing and sustainability of rural farmers? Or improve the quality of life of the underserved poor...
Who Will Win the Duel? - Building Full Information Citizenship
Editor's note: This post was written by Alison Craiglow Hockenberry, contributing editor at Ashoka Changemakers®, and originally featured on the Idea exChange Blog. It's a duel, quite possibly to the death. The bad guys: Censorship, surveillance, sabotage, fraud. The good guys: Freedom, access to...
Ashoka Senior Fellow Sakena Yacoobi to be Honored with German Media Prize
Ashoka Senior Fellow Dr. Sakena Yacoobi has been working to provide Afghans with basic human rights in the area of health care in a country torn apart by war for the better part of two decades. Since she founded The Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) in 1996, the organization has touched the lives...
Lady Gaga's "Moment of Empathy"
Lady Gaga commands the abundant love of millions of fans. But when she launched the Born This Way Foundation recently at Harvard, she acknowledged that she's exposed to hate as well. Responding to a question from Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Gaga said she receives "a...
Disability, or super power?
Today, April 2, is World Autism Day. In another month, graduation season will start, and another class of young people with a diagnosis on the autism spectrum will enter the labor market. Those of us who live and work in the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) field know that we are witnessing a tsunami...
Excerpt from The Big Shift: A Roadmap to Innovation for an Aging Population
Editor's note: The following is adapted from Civic Ventures founder and Ashoka Fellow Marc Freedman's latest book, The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife. With the first of 78 million baby boomers turning 65 this year, Freedman challenges an aging society to reimagine the decades...
Maurice Miller proves those in poverty are social solutions, not problems
Like many Ashoka Fellows, Maurice Miller's journey to becoming a leading social innovator was influenced by his efforts to conquer adversity. He was the child of a poor, immigrant, single mother, and when his sister moved out with a boyfriend at age 16, his mother was devastated. Miller's mother...
A new roadmap for solving the world-wide shortage of affordable housing
Two global trends—explosive population growth and mass urban migration—mean that millions of individuals worldwide, in virtually every country, now inhabit sprawling slums. Beginning in 2008, people living in cities outnumbered people on rural land for the first time in human history. Already about...