Web-Based Empowerment

Gemin-i

...web-based solutions designed to improve education and empower young people worldwide to interact with students and communities globally. Through 3 different online social enterprises - Rafi.ki, Reflect, and Gemin-i Webtools - this organisation hopes to assist schools that are interested in engaging with students and teachers through collaborative learning...

Ways Technology Impacts Those in Need and Those Who Meet Needs

...explores the strategy of connecting the economically poor with information relevant to their livelihoods - through technology. A shift to "beneficiary-facing" technology applications could open up strategy opportunities in the fight against poverty...

Network Messaging

Texts Tackle HIV in South Africa

...this text messaging project tries to counter the fact that only 5% of the South African population has been tested for HIV. It is scheduled to send one million free text messages a day to push people to be tested and treated...

Social Networks are Like the Eye: A Talk with Nicholas A. Christakis

...an interview about this researcher's investigations of the rules that determine the structure of social networks... for example, the spread of obesity through a network, the spread of smoking cessation through a network, the spread of happiness through a network, the spread of loneliness through a network, or the spread of altruism through a network....