Build Back Better: Strategies for Societal Renewal in Haiti

Build Back Better: Strategies for Societal Renewal in Haiti

In the current issue of Innovations President Bill Clinton and other authors present the strategies and on-the-ground innovations that are leading the way in Haiti’s earthquake recovery efforts.  This special edition was distributed to the participants of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, held in New York on September 21-23.
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Urban Innovation: New Orleans Five Years After Katrina

Urban Innovation: New Orleans Five Years After Katrina

Our Special Edition for the Tulane-Rockefeller 2010 Model City Conference shows New Orleans as a community where breakthrough innovations in sustainable design and community resiliency are reshaping how urban residents live and interact with one another for generations to come.   The issue features insightful lead essays...
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School’s Out: Envisioning the Future of Education

School’s Out: Envisioning the Future of Education

This issue of Innovations examines pockets of educational transformation emerging at the policy and classroom levels driven by new research, technology, and motivated entrepreneurs.  In India, iDiscoveri aims to topple rote learning by scaling modern teaching methodologies across thousands of schools to millions of primary...
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Invention-Led Development

Invention-Led Development

The Winter 2010 edition of Innovations,  Invention-Led Development,  introduces four new case studies authored by outstanding Ashoka-Lemelson Fellows who are transforming lives through technology. It also features proposals for action from President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Paul Polak of IDE,  Matthew Bishop of The...
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Doña Catalina's New Pump

Doña Catalina's New Pump

Doña Catalina lives in a place called Gualjaina, situated on Argentina’s Patagonian plains, in a precariously built house many kilometers from any of her neighbors. She lives by raising sheep and a cow or two, and from the produce of her small farm, where,...
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