I was first introduced to Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) back in 2009 at The Feast Conference in New York. Elizabeth Scharpf, founder of SHE, presented to the audience the innovative work her organization is doing to help women and girls in developing countries obtain access to low-cost sanitary pads. SHE calculated that women and girls miss up to 50 days per year of work or school because they cannot afford the sanitary pads they need. Not only do they miss school or work, but these women who can't afford pads also end up turning to unhygienic and ineffective solutions like rags or tree bark to use instead.

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InSTEDD creates amazing, free, open-source technology tools to address social issues. There are high-tech and low-tech resources that can be used successfully in both developing and developed countries.

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M-Pesa is a mobile money transfer service conceptualised in Kenya by Safaricom/Vodafone and funded in part by the UK government. M-Pesa has since grown exponentially with a user base of over 50% of Kenya's adult population, throughput of over 11% of the country's GDP and higher transfer rates than those of Western Union globally. The service has slowly expanded to Tanzania, South Africa and Afghanistan in Vodafone networks. Other operators in the region have also deployed simillar services.

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Kentaro Toyama provides a cautionary tale about techno-optimism

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Enterprising Schools, an initiative of Gray Matters Capital Foundation, is sponsoring this challenge, focused on increasing the access of low-cost and appropriate learning tools for affordable private schools in India and worldwide. The submissions will contribute to the development of a catalogue of existing tools and would provide inspirational concepts to entrepreneurs who will be encouraged to take them forward and build businesses to provide affordable private schools with much-needed tools and materials. The purpose of this engagement is to provide access to quality learning tools and materials to affordable private schools first in India, and secondarily, worldwide.

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A campaign aimed at activating the community of women in the developing world through the common sentiment of being a mother, and the feelings that that entails. Inspired by direct selling initiatives of global companies such as Avon or Natura, this campaign aims to cross feelings of apprehension, misunderstanding, fear, and reluctance that the developing world population may have about becoming a donor through peer-to-peer dialogue.

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Election processes are usually marked by superstition and other malpractices that range from exclusive strategies, black mail, shines and black magic, to sacrifices and murder amongst others, just to get one's way through the process successfully.

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