BILL DRAYTON Founder & CEO, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public August 1, 2010 Many people sense that society’s problems are multiplying faster and faster—and that they are outrunning the solutions. The answer lies in the hands of two groups of…
Of Paradigms and Doing Good The way we see the world can change the world. Such is the power of paradigms. Paradigms are mental models of how we view various aspects of life. Since paradigms frame our view of reality,…
EXTRAORDINARILY ORDINARY Asia—a region beleaguered by social problems. To start, 800 million people—or over two-thirds of the world’s poor—live in this part of the world.1 Intertwined with the causes and consequences of poverty are social problems such as health, sanitation,…