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Lesson # 15: Capturing the Knowledge
Last week our fearless Tech4Society event team leader put together a day devoted solely to distilling all of the knowledge we have or think we have about the invention and technology space within social...
It was a tough competition to go through as we were impressed with the quality of all the entries to the Blog your way to Hyderabad competition, and after much deliberation we have selected six preliminary finalists.
The finalists are:
Amy Sample...
Week by week, and drop to drop, twelve students from the Art Center College of Design are working towards social change. In partnership with Un Techo Para Mi Pais, the students develop new tools for using, storing, and transporting water to improve...
Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow Lalith Seneviratne has created low cost, high yield biomass-based generators to produce electricity for rural Sri Lanka. Families living outside of major cities in Sri Lanka have no realistic hopes of grid based electricity:...
This post originally appeared on NextBillion.net as part of Al Hammond's Notes from the Field series.
Editor's note: Al Hammond, entrepreneur in residence at Ashoka, writes a series of reports documenting his experiences and the learning involved in...
