Innova-Social
This section is dedicated to articles about social innovations. Social
entrepreneurs create deep and lasting positive impact in their communities
and in time of crisis social entrepreneurship keeps alive the hope of
millions in despair...
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Skype In The Classroom: An International Social Network For Teachers
Skype realizes full well its software is used by many school teachers and students from around the globe, and has announced that it has built a dedicated social network to help them connect, collaborate and exchange knowledge and teaching resources Read More ›
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Easier translations for Japanese relief workers
Several relief workers in Japan who don’t speak Japanese were able to obtain a free tool that lets them speak into their phones and get an instant translation -– all without a cell phone signal or Internet connection, thanks to Read More ›
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$300 to House the Poor
David A. Smith, the founder of the Affordable Housing Institute (AHI) tells us that “markets alone will never satisfactorily house a nation’s poorest citizens…whether people buy or rent, housing is typically affordable to only half of the population.” The result? Smith Read More ›
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Condom Finder App by NYC Health
Recognizing that sometimes love can’t wait, the New York City Health Department is making it quick and easy to find free condoms around the city. On Monday, the department released a well-timed app for finding a nearby distribution point. “You Read More ›
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Playing for Change: inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music
Playing for Change is a multimedia music project created by producer Mark Johnson and his Timeless Media Group, that seeks to bring together musicians from around the globe. Playing For Change also created a separate non-profit organization called the Playing Read More ›
Skype In The Classroom: An International Social Network For Teachers
Skype realizes full well its software is used by many school teachers and students from around the globe, and has announced that it has built a dedicated social network to help them connect, collaborate and exchange knowledge and teaching resources Read More ›
Easier translations for Japanese relief workers
Several relief workers in Japan who don’t speak Japanese were able to obtain a free tool that lets them speak into their phones and get an instant translation -– all without a cell phone signal or Internet connection, thanks to Read More ›
$300 to House the Poor
David A. Smith, the founder of the Affordable Housing Institute (AHI) tells us that “markets alone will never satisfactorily house a nation’s poorest citizens…whether people buy or rent, housing is typically affordable to only half of the population.” The result? Smith Read More ›
Condom Finder App by NYC Health
Recognizing that sometimes love can’t wait, the New York City Health Department is making it quick and easy to find free condoms around the city. On Monday, the department released a well-timed app for finding a nearby distribution point. “You Read More ›
Playing for Change: inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music
Playing for Change is a multimedia music project created by producer Mark Johnson and his Timeless Media Group, that seeks to bring together musicians from around the globe. Playing For Change also created a separate non-profit organization called the Playing Read More ›
Obey the Speed Limit by Making it Fun
The winning idea of the fun theory award, submitted by Kevin Richardson, USA. Can we get more people to obey the speed limit by making it fun to do? This was the question Kevins idea answered and it was so Read More ›
The Story of Bottled Water with Annie Leonard
Annie Leonard, the mastermind behind The Story of Stuff and The Story of Cap and Trade, has released the latest in her series of animations about environmental issues, just in time for World Water Day. , with juicy tidbits like: Read More ›
Changing Education Paradigms
Creativity expert, Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. In this video, animated by RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson Read More ›
The InfoLadies of Bangladesh, Armed With Bicycle and Netbook…
Many people living in Bangladesh’s impoverished villages haven’t yet been reached by technology. But a determined band of InfoLadies—young women equipped with netbooks, phones, and medical equipment—are delivering technology’s benefits to those people, one village at a time. These villages—and Read More ›
Michigan Students to Develop RFID-Enabled Robotic Guide Dog
After developing an RFID-enabled cane, Central Michigan University students hope to use what they’ve learned to create a robot that can read EPC Gen 2 tags to guide the blind. By Mary Catherine O’Connor Sept. 14, 2009—A group of undergraduate Read More ›
Making Do: Innovation in Kenya’s Informal Economy
A new book, available for free online, that breaks down the human systems that allow Nairobi’s informal economy to flourish and innovate: The linkages among microenterprises form dense networks of activity. Take a stroll through Gikomba, and one can’t help Read More ›
The 11th Hour, The State of the Natural Environment
The 11th Hour is a 2007 feature film documentary, created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, on the state of the natural environment. It was directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners and financed by Adam Lewis and Pierre Read More ›
$75 One Laptop Per Child tablet
Yves Behar/fuseproject’s update to the One Laptop Per Child machine, the stunning XO-3, is a touchscreen tablet device slated for 2012 release with a surprising (and at this point, presumably theoretical) $75 price point. Says fuseproject Program Manager Melissa Guthrie, Read More ›
Eve Blossom on Socially Responsible Business
Founded in 2004, Lulan now supports over 650 weavers, spinners, dyers and finishers in weaving cooperatives in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and India. She stressed that Lulan does what culturally fits for each country, and with any cooperative they work Read More ›
Freecycle: Donate Within Your Local Community!
You can donate your old goods, or find things you need, all online, all within your local community. The beauty of the model is not just the ease on your wallet, but the conduit it provides for citizens living just Read More ›