If you are like me, when you read a headline like this, your mind begins to picture flat-packed furniture arriving in a refugee camp and people running around looking for the correct allen keys (or Hex keys) to assemble the bits and pieces. Just picture that for a...
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Hotspot for Innovative Mobile Phone Usage?
Bangladesh. Probably not your first guess; it certainly wasn't mine, but when I read all the various innovations that are going on there - I was impressed. Beyond Profit Magazine had a great article about a number of innovative ideas that help make Bangladesh a...
Social Impact Bonds
This past Friday, the UK government launched more social impact bonds, building on the first official social impact bond working in the Peterborough prison. It's a huge step in changing how society, not just government, tackles social issues within the UK. I say...
Irrelevance or relevant – what are we doing?
While sitting in the Nairobi airport waiting to board my flight to Uganda, I sat in the Java House coffee shop, reading some document about the situation, but also keeping one eye on the TV news. BBC began to show a programme about children in the Philippines who are...