This week Dowser is revisiting our best tech stories while our writers report back from the Social Good Summit. Check back often for our conference coverage - we'll examine the power of technology and innovative thinking to create change. Andrew Rasiej is what ...
Al Hammond and Amit Jain of E-Health Point found a hook to get rural Indians to come to their clinics: provide clean water. Cheap clean water brings the foot traffic that lets their modern medical facilities flourish. Because there are no local doctors, ...
Data-driven apps are opening a new era of global development. That's one of the big takeaways from the recent Global Philanthropy Forum in Redwood City, Calif. It's hard to pinpoint when the inflection point may come -- if it hasn't already -- but ...
In this series social entrepreneurs discuss the importance of sharing their big idea and reaching out to others. From making business partners out of strangers to saving flooded headquarters, our contacts and future contacts routinely prove integral to every aspect of creating and running a social enterprise. ...
PROBLEM: While some applaud the power of social media to create social change, others doubt that information and discussion moves users to action. This fall, Malcolm Gladwell took a strong stand against the role of social media in changemaking, stating that connections formed ...
In 1995, 12-year-old Craig Kielburger was flipping through the Toronto Star looking for comics when he came across an article about the murder of Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani child labor activist who was also 12. Upset by this story, Kielburger gathered a small ...
Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few thought-provoking tweets from the last week: Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and his team launched the beta version of a new site called ...
Social innovators can learn from each others' successes and failures. That's the idea behind Dowser's Mini Case Studies, real-world stories showing how changemakers confront practical challenges. PROBLEM: The environmental advocacy group Heal the Bay has identified marine debris as a core problem – ...
Around 100 million Americans use web-connected, camera-equipped phones on a daily -- probably hourly -- basis. Which is why many developers are exploring how this extraordinary resource can be harnessed for social change. By using our phones to snap photographs of trash-filled riverbeds, ...
For months, psychologists struggled to reach the eight year old boy in the burn unit of the Pediatric Hospital of Tacubaya, in Mexico City. He had been discovered in the basement of a house, tied to a water tank after being burned along ...