Igniting civic progress -- Innovation as catalytic ingredient -- Open sourcing social innovation -- Trading good deeds for measurable results -- Animating and trusting the citizen -- Turning risk into reward -- The fertile community.
This seminal book provides tools for civic entrepreneurs to create healthier communities and promote innovative solutions to public and social problems. It shows how to effectively tackle the intractable issues facing our country and world by exploring new ways to collaborate ac…
This book provides tools for civic entrepreneurs to create healthier communities & promote innovative solutions to public & social problems. It shows how to effectively tackle the intractable issues facing our country & world by exploring new ways to collaborate across sectors &…
TechGnosis: myth, magic + mysticism in the age of information
by Davis, Erik
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"From the printing press to the telegraph, through radio, TV and the Internet, TechGnosis explores the mystical impulses that lie behind our obsession with information technology. In this book, writer and cyber guru Erik Davis demonstrates how religious imagination, magical drea…
Computers in Bangalore are locked away in dusty cabinets because teachers don't know what to do with them. Mobile phone apps meant to spread hygiene practices in Africa fail to improve health. And four decades of incredible innovation in America have done nothing to turn the tid…
"In 2004, Kentaro Toyama, an award-winning computer scientist, moved to India to start a new research group for Microsoft. Its mission: to explore novel technological solutions to the world's persistent social problems. Together with his team, he invented electronic devices for …
In 2004, Kentaro Toyama, an award-winning computer scientist, moved to India to start a new research group for Microsoft. Its mission: to explore novel technological solutions to the world's persistent social problems. Together with his team, he invented electronic devices for u…
"In 2004, Kentaro Toyama, an award-winning computer scientist, moved to India to start a new research group for Microsoft. Its mission: to explore novel technological solutions to the world's persistent social problems. Together with his team, he invented electronic devices for …