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New Entrepreneurship
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Pump Technology for Kenya and Malawi
by Nicoletta Zappile - TGJ Staff November 9, 2011
While driving in his car on the Dutch motorway, Rowdy Ter Voert, Account Manager for Grundfos water utility, one of the world’s leading pump manufacturers, received a call on his mobile with an unusual ...
Innovation
Swiss Firm Stadler Reveals Record Breaking Locomotive
by Julie Mandoyan June 7, 2012
The Swiss firm Stadler Rail announced yesterday (6 June) it had developed the world’s most powerful and largest locomotive yet. The project will be initiated in Brazil in a couple of months. Stadler Rail ...
GLOBAL+5
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Clicks and Bricks: Preparing for Continuous Change
by Anuj Kapoor November 15, 2012
What is the new game in town? Out of competing theories and views, there tends to emerge a certain winner, a dominant argument that shapes the entire new paradigm. In a world of diversity and ...
#01 Innovation Yves Béhar
Design Can Change the World
by Ruthie Ackerman - TGJ Staff June 1, 2010
As a child, Yves Béhar dreamed of becoming a writer. Inspired by the battle scenes covering the Turkish carpets in his parents’ home and the French bestseller Papillon he devoured in his youth, B ...
Global Minds Innovation Natural Resource Governance
Innovation in the Water Scarcity Challenge
by Nicoletta Zappile - TGJ Staff November 30, 2011
Widespread degradation of land and water resources poses a profound challenge to the task of feeding a world population expected to reach 9 billion people by 2050. The report issued by FAO (November 28), the ...
#11 Anne Githuku-Shongwe New Entrepreneurship NGO Nexus
5 Questions to Anne Githuku-Shongwe
by Alexis Kalagas May 18, 2012
Afroes is a South Africa-based social enterprise focused on developing interactive digital media solutions to empower Africa’s future leaders. The company uses mobile phone gaming technology to deliver innovative social messaging and educational campaigns ...
#12 Battle for Energy Innovation NGO Nexus
Let There Be (Portable) Light
by Alexis Kalagas July 9, 2012
The Portable Light Project is a non-profit initiative led by MIT professor and practising architect, Sheila Kennedy, which produces adaptable solar textile kits that enable some of the world’s poorest people to harvest renewable ...
#09 Innovation
#86 - Cambia
by The Global Journal January 23, 2012
Check out if Cambia is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Democratizing scientific innovation. Open-access tools to navigate patent regimes. According to molecular biologist Richard Jefferson, civilization has been built on ‘open source’ for ...
#17 - Can Art Save Iran? Non-Fiction
Give It Up
by The Global Journal May 21, 2013
Why Philanthropy Matters: How the Wealthy Give, and What it Means for Our Economic Well-Being, Zoltan J Acs, Princeton University Press, $29.95. In Why Philanthropy Matters, Zoltan Acs traces the role of philanthropy in ...
The Global Journal October 17, 2012
Vizua 3D - Removing Access Barriers to Critical 3D Data
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Deepwater Project
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17 - Ashoka
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Battle for Energy Innovation
Watchword: ‘Cleaner, Flexible, More Efficient’
by Nicoletta Zappile - TGJ Staff February 8, 2012
February 6-8 in Doha, Quatar - In a three-day conference and exhibition, WaterWorld Middle East 2012 and POWER-GEN Middle East are showcasing the experts and companies who address ‘Challenging Power Solutions in Challenging Times’. The event ...
#09 Battle for Energy Innovation
#84 - Portable Light Project
by The Global Journal January 23, 2012
Check out if Portable Light Project is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Designing revolutionary solar textiles. Kit costs under $16. With 25 percent of the global population lacking electricity, the Portable Light Project ...
#09 New Entrepreneurship Politics of Development and Humanitarian Aid
#87 - Innovations for Poverty Action
by The Global Journal January 23, 2012
Check out if Innovation for Poverty Action is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Discovering what works to help the world’s poor. Projects in over 40 countries. ‘Randomized evaluation’ is not a phrase ...
#09 New Entrepreneurship Youth and Social Development
#96 - Injaz Al-Arab
by The Global Journal January 23, 2012
Check out if Injaz Al-Arab is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Inspiring the ‘Waiting Generation’. 10,000 corporate volunteers engaged. Amidst the recent political and social upheavals across the Middle East and North ...
TOP 100 NGOs
02 - Wikimedia Foundation
by The Wikimedia Foundation January 9, 2013
Crowd-sourcing knowledge worldwide. HQ Location: United States. In 11 short years, Wikimedia Foundation’s flagship initiative – ubiquitous online encyclopaedia Wikipedia – has revolutionized the way knowledge is collected and shared. By now, most are familiar with ...
Global Minds Innovation
China: Hotbed of Innovation For Our Planet in the 21st Century?
by Georges Haour March 25, 2013
Never has the world witnessed a large market emerge so quickly as China. As the economy grows, it is also changing. China is fast climbing the value curve, transitioning from low-cost manufacturing to innovation-led growth ...
Carbon Politics Innovation Natural Resource Governance
Climate Change Expedition Ready For The Atlantic
by The Global Journal March 26, 2013
Last October, the Deepwater Project, led by Nobel laureate Martin Beniston, was the winner of the first ever GLOBAL+5 Innovation Award. Thanks to support from the University of Geneva, the Dudley Wright Foundation and ...
#16 - The Pink Face of Indian Vigilantism Innovation New Entrepreneurship Ping Fu
A Life In Two Worlds
by Alexis Kalagas March 26, 2013
Born on the eve of China’s Cultural Revolution, Ping Fu was separated from her family at the age of eight and left to care for her younger sister amidst squalor and humiliation at the ...
#17 - Can Art Save Iran? Innovation Internet Governance Jaron Lanier
Exposing The Big Data Lie
by Alexis Kalagas May 21, 2013
Computer scientist, inventor, philosopher, composer and Microsoft “scholar-at-large,” Jaron Lanier has spent his career pushing the transformative power of modern technology, from coining the term ‘virtual reality’ to developing cutting edge medical imaging techniques. In ...
The Global Journal October 8, 2012
Discovering Hands - Detecting Breast Cancer Through the Heightened Senses of Blind Women
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The Global Journal November 7, 2012
Lighting Up the Amazon with Cutting Edge Solar Technology
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MANTRA - Transforming Rural Livelihoods One Tap and Toilet at a Time
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The Global Journal April 23, 2013
Ping Fu
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Global Health Governance Ten Years After Doha
by Annya Schneider - TGJ Staff December 6, 2011
At the Global Health Diplomacy Symposium held in Geneva (November 23), speakers illustrated the complex relationship between public health concerns, trade and intellectual property. Traditional actors in the global health arena, including WHO alongside current ...
Business and Corporate Citizenship Global Minds Innovation New Entrepreneurship
When Profit Meets Purpose
by Denielle Sachs May 13, 2013
As the first Internet stock bubble neared its popping point in 1999, IBM chief executive Lou Gerstner famously dismissed the dot-com start-ups of his day as “fireflies before the storm—all stirred up, throwing off ...

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New Entrepreneurship

Pump Technology for Kenya and Malawi

Swiss Firm Stadler Reveals Record Breaking Locomotive

GLOBAL+5

Clicks and Bricks: Preparing for Continuous Change

Design Can Change the World

Innovation in the Water Scarcity Challenge

5 Questions to Anne Githuku-Shongwe

Let There Be (Portable) Light

#86 - Cambia

Give It Up

Vizua 3D - Removing Access Barriers to Critical 3D Data

Deepwater Project

17 - Ashoka

Watchword: ‘Cleaner, Flexible, More Efficient’

#84 - Portable Light Project

#87 - Innovations for Poverty Action

#96 - Injaz Al-Arab

02 - Wikimedia Foundation

China: Hotbed of Innovation For Our Planet in the 21st Century?

Climate Change Expedition Ready For The Atlantic

A Life In Two Worlds

Exposing The Big Data Lie

Discovering Hands - Detecting Breast Cancer Through the Heightened Senses of Blind Women

Lighting Up the Amazon with Cutting Edge Solar Technology

MANTRA - Transforming Rural Livelihoods One Tap and Toilet at a Time

Ping Fu

Global Health Governance Ten Years After Doha

When Profit Meets Purpose

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