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How do we ensure that companies and upcoming innovations are more environmentally friendly?
How can we encourage companies to devote more of their effort and people to creating environmentally friendly innovations? Companies are making the move to be more environmentally friendly however there is still an extraordinary amount of room for...
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Adam Hueniken
November 27, 2010
04:56AM |
The open data movements of the US government, EU and some development partners (e.x. World Bank) tend to empower the empowered. How do we engage the disempowered to help contribute, shape and open data to change behaviors to improve social and economic development?
Empowering the Disempowered with Open Data
The open data movements of the US government, EU and some development partners (e.x. World Bank) tend to empower the empowered. How do we engage the disempowered to help contribute, shape and open data to change behaviors to improve social and eco...
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David Haddad
December 14, 2010
02:09AM |
How Do We Sustainably Address Food and Carbon Emissions?
The United Nations Climate Change Report states that animal agriculture causes more greenhouse gases (GHG) than transportation: 18 percent of worldwide GHG. We need to look at low-hanging fruit to reduce GHG now. See what some world countries and ...
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Mary Vincent
November 27, 2010
12:59AM |
How to deal with economic and/or humanitarian crimes?
How can we deal with economic and humanitarian crimes, in a human way in fairness to all parties involved. At local and global scales... Or even better, Would there be a way to prevent these economic and or humanitarian crimes?
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Adriana Olmos
November 25, 2010
05:52PM |
How can we create an environment in which social enterprises can thrive?
Social enterprises, and the more socially active regular companies, are at the forefront of change in societies, and even across borders. In recent years they have proven to be more efficient in improving lives than governments have. I believe tha...
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Arjan Tupan
November 25, 2010
08:13AM |
How do we give hope to the world's 43.3 million people that are forcibly displaced
Conflicts and natural disasters have displaced many, many people. In their yearly report, the UNHCR now uses the number of 43.3 million people that have been forced to leave their home. An estimated 30 % of them lives in refugee camps, some of the...
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Arjan Tupan
December 14, 2010
11:18AM |
What is humanity´s identity?
We are Hindus, we are Christians, we are Jews, Russians, Italians, Puerto Ricans.
Do we got a common Identity? How do we live out our humanity´s identity? Is it hip hop, country, ecological movements, Nike, Adidas, Mercedes Benz and BMW? Is it t...
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CHARITY-FOUNDATION GLOBALFIRM™
December 03, 2010
05:15PM |
How Do We Speed Up Renewable Energy Innovation?
Most governments and industry refuse to see the long-term environmental benefit of leaving fossil fuels and turning to clean renewable energy sources. The decision still remains an economic one. It continues to generally be cheaper to burn coal ...
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Demian Repucci
December 06, 2010
03:56PM |
How can we improve the working model to avoid most of urban mobility?
A change in our lifestyle where is not necessary to go to a specifical working environment. Everything that you have to do is walk to a "working center" near you and interact with intelligent and creative people making a better world to live.
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Fabiano Gallindo
December 05, 2010
04:14AM |
How can we close the gap between rich and poor in developing and developed countries?
Last year marked a record high ratio of the gap between the richest and the poorest folk in America. 14.5-to-1 was the ratio for 2009. The US in particular has the highest disparity on the international Gini index, a similar metric, which found U....
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Nathan Waterhouse
November 23, 2010
12:29AM |
Could Every Child on Earth Be Cared For?
There are several charity organizations that offer child sponsorship programs allowing people to contribute monthly to provide the chosen children in poor communities with various necessities such as food, clean water, medication and educational s...
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Demian Repucci
December 16, 2010
07:16AM |
Can governments create "social credits" to incentivize businesses to use excess capacity for social causes?
Governments have created "emission credits" as an economic incentive to cut back on carbon emissions. What if "social credits" were created to incentivize social impact. Many businesses have excess capacity that is wasted, yet increased complexit...
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Adriana Peon
November 27, 2010
08:22AM |
The early development of the social-policy interface
This issue stems from my own inspiration. In most of the projects I´ve worked in I´ve observed that the interface for the communication and information sharing between the civil society, the main socioeconomic sectors and the policy makers (includ...
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Pablo F. Méndez
December 11, 2010
07:51PM |
diffuse those skills developed by so many people living in underdeveloped or emerging countries, for instance transform their local answers to special or basic needs ,with low-integrated technology process ,into global or universal ways of innovative artefacts ? In other terms , how convert different way of thinking or making solutions and tools into profitable and sustainable development for all?
PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE SHARING BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS AND NATIONS
diffuse those skills developed by so many people living in underdeveloped or emerging countries, for instance transform their local answers to special or basic needs ,with low-integrated technology process ,into global or universal ways of innovat...
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Louis Cyrille MPONDO MBOKA
December 14, 2010
11:59AM |
How can we encourage innovation/design in education?
There is a severe lack of design and innovation education throughout many schooling systems throughout the world. How can we encourage education systems to provide more opportunities for students to learn about the power of innovation and design?
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Adam Hueniken
November 24, 2010
08:24AM |
How can we rethink money and economic systems to benefit people where they are?
With flaws in our current economic systems, how can we harness other techniques for banking and financing to benefit people and communities, providing greater opportunities and stability against global economic shifts?
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Liz Kramer
December 06, 2010
04:07AM |
How can we tackle illiteracy on a global scale?
There have been many great concepts mentioned involving improving
educational resources, encouraging independence and fostering youth
empowerment on a global scale.
Focusing on digital learning opportunities like the Hole-in-the-Wall kiosks...
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Isabelle Duston
December 04, 2010
12:50PM |
How can we spread innovation, teach valuable skills and encourage independence in developing economies?
Fab Labs are a successful concept that can be “replicated” and rapidly deployed and used in conjunction with international idea centers that can leverage new concepts like crowdsourcing and encourage age old concepts like apprenticeships and skill...
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Tom Miller
November 27, 2010
04:54PM |
How can we create a global approach to protecting the oceans?
The oceans are critical to our survival as a species and to life on Earth as we know it. From a human perspective, the developing world gets 40% of its protein from the Sea, we use it for commerce: shipping, for travel, the seas are a potential in...
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Nathan Waterhouse
December 20, 2010
11:58PM |
How do we incorporate empathy into our everyday work, thoughts and outcomes ?
It is not possible to infuse our work, services, products and ideas with true value unless we can put ourselves in the shoes of those we serve first, before serving our own needs. In order to create true innovation, we need to design new outcomes ...
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James Nyika
November 29, 2010
07:59PM |
