Skateistan started in Afghanistan as a "crazy idea" to use skateboarding for empowerment. Now it's opening a fifth school, so more...
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Projects
The self-published DIY ‘zine’ has always been the domain of those in search of alternatives. Its DIY nature eschews the...
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The debate on how to cope with immigration is heated and complex. Based in Germany, a country which takes more refugees than...
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In 2005, Stockholm-based philanthropist Hans Rosling predicted that differentiating between hard data and opinion would be one of the digital...
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Back in June 2011, civil unrest proved its ability to act as a catalyst for political change and amid bloody...
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The digital age loves maps, but not everywhere in the world is represented equally. Digital survey application tool Map Your...
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In the world’s most northern orphanage on the heart-shaped little Arctic island of Uummannaq, Greenlandic kids used to enjoy weekends...
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Most major voting systems are unevenly weighted, prone to manipulation by and via the media, established parties and corporations, and...
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An online forum with the simple slogan ‘We Exist!’ is providing support for the 2.5 million gay, lesbian, bisexual and...
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"It is our responsibility to enable every young person to make to learn and learn to make," says David Sengeh, Global...
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In 2006, a local pharmacist in Cairo noticed two things – that low-income families couldn’t afford medicine, and that there...
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As we power forward into the future, many institutions have struggled to keep up. While education has changed the least...
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In India the Sundara Fund project has produced over 8,000 bars of soap and impacted more than 6,000 lives. The...
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For those craving independence and interaction, a team of European academics, designers and organisations has created a consortium to support ageing...
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SMS text messages are improving the lives of mothers-to-be and their newborns in Cameroon. The first mobile health platform in...
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Every day, women across the world are insulted, ignored or assaulted simply because of their gender. In 2012 award-winning journalist...
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An Indian NGO in New Delhi has created a locally generated digital database of thousands of videos to teach agricultural...
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The Pope is my new hero – my socially progressive, secularist, humanist new hero. How can you not love a man...
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