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Stay Tuned for the Technological Transformation of Governance
For a decade or more, many people have understood that educational technologies are likely to change how we teach and how our schools work. People can also see how medical technologies will impact the...
As Technology Shakes Social Foundations, It Might Also Build New Ones [Video]
Dr. Guy Standing is a distinguished political philosopher and one of the world’s foremost experts on basic income, which he has researched and promoted since the 1980s—long before it began trending in the media.
We...
How Tech Can Make Entrepreneurship Safe for the Poor
What is the future of learning? That will depend on where you live and how old you are. In high-income countries for school-aged youth, it might come in the form of adaptive, digital content...
A Key Moment In Kenya: What Ed Tech Can Learn From the GMO Backlash
A trailblazing educational technology initiative backed by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and the World Bank has been stopped in its tracks by the government of Kenya.
When it launched in 2009, Bridge International Academies served...
How Technology Is Crash Landing in Our Public Schools
Do we have an adequate system for sorting through the ten thousand plus different educational technology materials and programs available for integration into our public school systems?
No. In fact, we do not have a...
How Mobile Technology Can Bring Trauma Relief After Ebola
This article was co-written by Elie Calhoun.
Nathaniel Calhoun focuses on the intersection of last mile development work challenges, mobile education for poverty alleviation and ecological design. Follow Nathaniel on Twitter @codeinnovation.
The promise of mobile technology...
Why We Need Local Economies to Balance Technological Unemployment
Exponential technologies and digitization lure our focus to global markets, dangling the potential of massive profits and dizzying scale.
Entrepreneurs and investors look for opportunities to create the next platform, which may be the innocuous...
Future of Work: Why Teaching Everyone to Code Is Delusional
Since 2005, I’ve been grappling with the issue of what to teach young people. I’ve written curricula for junior high students in the US, for a UNICEF program reaching students in a dozen countries,...