The NonProfit Times

JULY 17, 2024

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the predecessor of the SDGs, saw considerable progress due to developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to do the same for implementing and advancing progress on the SDGs, according to the authors.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 25, 2023

Without an equally unprecedented level of coordination and collaboration—requiring rigorously examining the lessons of the pandemic response—all of us will be impacted by these future challenges, particularly people living in global majority (or lower- and middle-income) countries.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These technologies are more than just catchphrases; they reshape hub industries like retail, healthcare, and finance. Challenges of Using AI and ML Adopting artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies presents several key challenges that organizations must consider.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 12, 2022

There are many examples of leaders countering this myth, like the Fellows in the Civil Society Fellowship. They are working collaboratively in community and solidarity to confront injustice and to bring together the stakeholders within systems to co-create solutions for change. .”

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This is directly connected to another essential component of scale which usually requires a great amount of capital to be implemented: technology. Thus, unsurprisingly, most social enterprises originating in poor communities are not technology intensive. Two cases in Brazil that exemplify this difficulty are Jaubra and Weuse.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A study on the working conditions in Kenya’s gig economy , for example, was written by two African researchers, who not only surveyed hundreds of gig workers but also involved civil society and policy makers during a multi-stakeholder dialogue and a panel discussion in Nairobi. A first challenge is to find suitable collaborators.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 15, 2023

Moreover, developing countries typically lack key technologies and financial resources that could help them become more resilient to climate change and its impacts. To accomplish this, the IMF and World Bank can coordinate and collaborate with other creditors to align their policies and practices on debt swaps.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 1, 2024

But by “weaponizing” this technology, we’ve made it much harder to regulate, as it has undoubtedly led to policies aimed at stockpiling resources to achieve national supremacy over the tech. There has been movement on US leadership in AI, and that trend should continue alongside establishing a lever for global collaboration.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 24, 2024

A market innovation like creating a sustainable seafood market is unlikely to create enduring systems change without building strong relationships with civil society. Embedding change into a system means philanthropic staff, trustees, organizational divisions, and funder collaborative members must buy into the process.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Google solved the problem with networks : By engineering connections among hundreds of thousands of computers, Google radically expanded what their search technology could do. But networks are not only key to speed and scale in the technology sector; the same is true for ambitious climate policy.

Public and Social Policy 132

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

There’s technology that records facial expressions and tone of voice to collect “mood and sentiment analysis” to measure employees’ affect and attitude. Today’s high-tech surveillance technologies are exploiting the same loopholes in our labor laws that date back generations.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

All sectors have a role to play in achieving climate justice, but it’s fair to say that compared to government and civil society, business is late in addressing the challenge and is in fact frequently called out as part of the problem. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

(Photo By Deposit Photos) By Marnie Webb From the frontlines of disaster relief to the forefront of technological innovation, civil society organizations are navigating a rapidly changing landscape. All of this is further compounded by the simultaneous threat and opportunity of changing technology.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 15, 2024

By Shaista Keating and Chloe Mankin The rapid evolution and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) offer both opportunities and challenges to civil society, particularly concerning responsible and ethical usage.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Others, like the Ford, MacArthur, and Hewlett Foundations, and Omidyar Network, have focused on building the capacity to address the risks and opportunities posed by a wide range of technologies, including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence. Building government (and civil society) capacity to use AI. The future is now.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 11, 2025

The UN has called for radically new forms of collaboration through its Pact for the Future , a groundbreaking pledge to open a new beginning in multilateralism and a new kind of international cooperation in an effort to stave off tipping into a future of persistent crisis and breakdown.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 4, 2024

To establish effective AI governance, then, is the challenge for civil society organizations and social innovators. This entails determining the frameworks and structures we need to build to effectively organize and govern society amid rapid technological change and unchecked power consolidation. We need a new roadmap.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 30, 2023

The world wide web was a game changer; people could now collaboratively build and create the world they desired. Indeed, these digital technologies would enable people to transcend the geographic boundaries that constrained their ability to pursue the lives they valued, enabling them to acquire more social, economic, and political power.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

technology sector, trust and safety emerged in the past fifteen years as a term to describe the teams and operations working to mitigate the harm (to users or others) arising from an online product or platform. Here’s how The Atlantic Council puts it: “Rooted in the U.S. Fact-checking is not enough.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

The virtuous donor has a clear conscience about building naming gifts and attendant rights if they are offered with principled intentions, exemplify a life marked by honor, and provide balanced benefits both to society and self. The artist developed the work to address the immigration crisis and collaborated with 21 community members.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 26, 2023

As policy makers struggle to respond to the unfolding human catastrophe, they have increasingly turned to the possibilities offered by technology, and data in particular. Yet as is so often the case with technology, the potential for good is accompanied by certain risks.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In our era of rapid healthcare transformation, technological innovations have brought many promising breakthroughs. Evolving health technology has brought remarkable benefits. In high-income countries, these technologies are embedded within existing healthcare systems supported by strong digital infrastructure. 37 percent.

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 22, 2024

technology sector, trust and safety emerged in the past fifteen years as a term to describe the teams and operations working to mitigate the harm (to users or others) arising from an online product or platform. Here’s how The Atlantic Council puts it: “Rooted in the U.S. Fact-checking is not enough.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

For example, in the case of Procafecol, the winning strategy was to balance a strong focus on enhancing local production quality (by equipping farmers with technology to maximize output) with a simultaneous expansion into international markets.

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