Stopping Child Porn - Stanford Social Innovation Review
WEBStopping Child Porn. Computer imaging technology gets put to work to fight child porn fast—five-millisecond-fast. Not so long ago, those who trafficked in pornographic images of children kept to the shadows, operating their nefarious business far from mainstream channels. Then along came the Internet. The advent of instant publishing and file ...
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Informing and Inspiring …
WEBBuilding a Truly Reflective Pro-Democracy Public Leadership. By Lindiwe Mazibuko, Tainah Pereira & Erin Vilardi. To build inclusive, effective democracies, we must focus on developing leaders who are reflective of the nation-state and who can also change the conditions in which they operate. Civic Engagement.
AI’s Impact on Jobs and Work Is a Choice Between Two Futures
WEBOct 25, 2023 · Choosing AI’s Impact on the Future of Work. Rapid advances in AI threaten to eliminate many jobs, but there are still two distinct paths this AI revolution could take. In November 2022, OpenAI grabbed headlines by releasing ChatGPT, and “generative AI” became a term used in households around the world. …
What Is Community Anyway? - Stanford Social Innovation Review
WEBMay 12, 2015 · David M. Chavis, Ph.D. (@chavispower) is the Principal Associate and CEO of Community Science and is internationally recognized for his work in the implementation, support, and evaluation of community and systems change initiatives.The primary focus of his work has been the relationship between community development and the prevention of poverty, violence, substance abuse, and other social ...
Community Engagement Matters (Now More Than Ever)
WEBIn October 2010, three men—Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey; Cory Booker, who was then mayor of Newark, N.J.; and Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook—appeared together on The Oprah Winfrey Show to announce an ambitious reform plan for Newark Public Schools. On the show, Zuckerberg pledged a $100 million matching grant to support the goal of making Newark a model for how to ...
The Science of What Makes People Care (SSIR)
WEBAug 16, 2018 · On March 10, 1748, John Newton, a 22-year-old English seaman who had worked in the slave trade, was traveling home on a merchant ship after a series of misadventures, including being captured and enslaved in Sierra Leone. On that day, a violent storm struck just off the coast of Donegal, Ireland. Rocks ripped a hole in the side of the ship, and ...
What the Heck Does ‘Equity’ Mean? - Stanford Social Innovation …
WEBSep 15, 2016 · The term “equity” is spreading like wildfire in some philanthropic circles. It is showing up more and more in organizations’ mission and values statements. It is making its way into the titles of conferences, plenary and breakout sessions, and meetings at the national, state, and local levels. At a recent gathering of organizations ...
Strengthen Media Literacy to Win the Fight Against Misinformation
WEBMar 18, 2021 · Technology Strengthen Media Literacy to Win the Fight Against Misinformation . If the world is going to stop deliberate or unintentional misinformation and its insidious effects, we need to radically expand and accelerate our counterattacks, particularly human-centered solutions focused on improving people's media and …
Rediscovering Social Innovation - Stanford Social Innovation Review
WEBConsider, for example, the quintessential social innovation: microfinance—the provision of loans, savings, insurance, and other financial services to poor people who lack access to the conventional financial system. Microfinance combats the widespread and intractable problem of poverty: Billions of people trapped in a cycle of subsistence because they cannot gain access to capital to invest ...
Increasing Voter Turnout: What, If Anything, Can Be Done?
WEBApr 25, 2016 · Voters age 65 and older still turn out at a rate almost 30 percentage points higher than 18- to 24-year-olds. The turnout rate among those earning more than $100,000 to $150,000 per year remains 30 to 50 percentage points higher than the rate for those earning less than $20,000. So, what can be done to …