Redesigning Kenya’s Public Transport With Women In Mind
All over the world, women face astounding rates of sexual harassment on public transport. In Kenya, this issue affects 88 percent of women. What if we could redesign public transport
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When Students Build Their Own Learning Platform
With a group of high school classmates in 2009, social entrepreneur Simon Köhl built a Wikipedia-inspired collaborative learning platform: Serlo. It’s now used by over a million students in Germany
Can ChatGPT Revolutionize Access To Justice In India?
Artificial intelligence apps like ChatGPT and DALL-E which can generate strikingly coherent text and images in response to short prompts started taking the world by storm late last year. Known
Meet The Start-Up Founder Connecting Arrestees To Free Legal Support
Jelani AnglinShanel "MsPaparazzi" SmithFounded by Jelani Anglin, Good Call is a tech hybrid taking on mass incarceration in the U.S. by providing early access to legal support. Though currently only
We Forgot To Give Neural Networks The Ability To Forget
A conversation about artificial intelligence’s current inability to forget and what this means for the right to privacy and user agency. Miguel Luengo-Oroz, AI expert and social entrepreneur, speaks with
Re-Thinking How We Organize
Chinedu Echeruo is a New York City-based serial entrepreneur. His slew of start-ups includes HopStop, a transit navigation app he sold to Apple in 2013. Most recently, he has intensified
5 Insights To Make Data Work For Good
JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty ImagesAFP via Getty ImagesThis is the moment of the year for reflections—and how to apply learnings going forward. Doing this exercise with a focus on artificial
Accounting For Kindness
James Rhee is a high school teacher, turned private equity investor, turned CEO/entrepreneur, turned movement builder. Deeply shaped by his life experience as the son of immigrant Korean caregivers, James
‘Your Employees Are Somebody’s Precious Child’
What is great leadership? Bob Chapman has been pursuing this question as the CEO and Chairman of Barry-Wehmiller, an industrial manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, that was founded
The Case For Earlier Investments In Legal Diversity
Armin SalekYouth Justice AllianceArmin Salek, a Texas-based social entrepreneur, attorney, and teacher, is giving first-generation high schoolers hands-on experience using the law to address needs in their communities. By establishing
For Next Gen Farmers, Evolving The Land Trust Structure Is Key
Ian McSweeney of Agrarian TrustAgrarian TrustWith 400 million acres of farmland in the United States expected to change hands over the next two decades, the time for transformation in land
Meet The Barbers Starting A Conversation About Mental Health
The Confess Project advocates for the mental health of Black men across the U.S. by training barbers to listen to and support clients in crisis. Overcoming stigma and structural barriers
How 100 Communities Are Solving Homelessness—And What We Can Learn From Their Success
Homelessness is often thought of as intractable, ever-present. Yet social entrepreneur Rosanne Haggerty demonstrates how it can be solved. One hundred U.S. cities and counties collaborate through her organization Community
How Living With Pumas For 27 Years Changed Kai Pacha
Kai Pacha with puma cubsNélson TorresKai Pacha is a social entrepreneur based in Córdoba, Argentina, where she runs a natural reserve that protects pumas and helps ranchers coexist with them.
Gender-Based Violence And The Role Tech Plays
With online abuse and gender-based violence making headlines, we caught up with Ashoka Fellow Hera Hussain, founder of Chayn, to gain insights about the role technology can play, as well