Jason Ford BILL GATES, in his foundation’s annual letter , declared that “the terms ‘developing countries’ and ‘developed countries’ have outlived their usefulness.” He’s right. If we want to understand the modern global economy, we need a better vocabulary. Mr. Gates was making a point about…

MORE contracted with Detroit-based Digerati Inc. to develop the InsYght system with a $345,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor and $1.5 million in grants from the New Economy Initiative,

As Democrats around the country continue to tout their "fix it, don't end it" mentality about how to deal with the ongoing disaster of Obamacare, they seem to be forgetting who's paying for the promotion of President Obama's signature achievement: taxpayers. So far, the Obama administration has…

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FastFWD , the public-private business accelerator, has announced its first class. The $1 million foundation-backed accelerator aims to tackle the issue of public safety in Philadelphia by importing companies, training them, giving them access to city data and $10,000. Each company will have a chance…

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tetw : As chosen by Megan Stielstra We asked essayist, storyteller and all-round fountain of literary excellence Megan Stielstra to put together a collection of her all-time favourite essays. This is what she chose: The Careless Language of Sexual Violence by Roxane Gay - I am holding my breath for…

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Broken English Have you ever been emotion-shamed before? You know what I’m talking about, has someone ever made you feel bad for being honest, for putting yourself out there and articulating your feelings to them? It’s a rare thing to do these days, to really let yourself be raw and vulnerable. We…

That was the beginning of our education in the problems of the world’s poorest people. In 1996 my father sent us a New York Times article about the million children who were dying every year from rotavirus, a disease that doesn’t kill kids in rich countries. A friend gave me a copy of a World…

Leah Eichhorn is thrilled to be back in her hometown of Dubuque. Like a lot of educated young people, Eichhorn packed up and left once she became an adult, lighting out for Phoenix back in 2000 because there was so little opportunity where she’d grown up. The Iowa town, which sits alongside the…

STOCKTON - A defining moment in Anthony Silva's campaign for mayor last year came in a text message that went out en masse to undecided voters. Silva consultant N. Allen Sawyer hit send on the message about the same time absentee ballots arrived in mailboxes. It said: "Learn the shocking truth…

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Press Photo/T.J. Hamilton Girl awhirl: Luisa Schumacher takes a whirl on the merry-go-ground at a playground near her Northeast Grand Rapids home. She's an enthusiastic supporter of her neighborhood. And most everything. "She believes inside of each person is something beautiful," says good friend…

December 15, 2013 Donate to Nonprofits Through Facebook Today we’re starting to roll out a new feature called Donate that lets people contribute directly to nonprofits through Facebook. The Donate feature will appear beside Posts in News Feed shared by participating nonprofits and at the top of…

Ed Lee San Francisco’s Mayor Ed Lee is launching an entrepreneur-in-residence program with help from the White House to try to bring Silicon Valley innovation to government. At venture capital firms, these EIR programs are typically designed to give entrepreneurs time and resources to develop a new…

August 5, 2013 Read More This report is based on hundreds of public records and more than a dozen interviews with state officials and former aides to Mayor Bing. Some of this has been published, some not. This is the whole narrative. State and local leaders conspired to plunge Detroit into the…

Since starting my freelance design career at the age of 16, I have been giving the majority of my work away for free . In 2008, I launched verynice , a global design and innovation consultancy that donates more than half of its work to nonprofit organizations. Over the course of five years, we have…

Courtesy of the New York Governor's Office via Flickr Research shows that people consistently overestimate how good they are at multitasking. Earlier this week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that 91 "texting zones" have been established along major state highways. Cuomo's hope is that the…

(Photo: San Francisco Office of the Mayor) The trend towards injecting fresh perspectives into the business of government via innovation fellowships, civic startup incubators and accelerators continues to grow with San Francisco’s recent announcement of a city entrepreneurship-in-residence program.…

Innovation and the City

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its own Office of New Urban Mechanics

This article was published Tuesday in the The Globe and Mail . a Toronto newspaper, under the headline " The messy, tragic truth about Detroit’s bankruptcy ." Detroit’s bankruptcy was a long time coming, the inevitable consequence of a 60-year slide brought about by myriad factors both within and…

Op-Ed Contributor By PETER BUFFETT I HAD spent much of my life writing music for commercials, film and television and knew little about the world of philanthropy as practiced by the very wealthy until what I call the big bang happened in 2006. That year, my father, Warren Buffett, made good on his…

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“The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.” — Charlie Munger “Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.” — Charlie Munger Most people go through life not really getting any smarter. Why? They simply won’t do the work required. It’s easy to come home, sit on the…

On May 25, 1961, President John F Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress and said "...I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project in this period…

In this short video Charles Duhigg, author of, The Power of Habit , explains how to break a habit. Every habit functions the same way. At first, there is a cue . Some type of trigger that makes the behavior unfold automatically. … The next part in the habit loop is the routine , the behavior itself.…

creation Here’s another tumblr bot I made. Called Reverse OCR, it picks a word and draws random lines until an algorithm that’s designed to detect text in images thinks it’s found all the letters in the word. For a really close look at how it works, check out this visualization I made for a gallery…

Urban Institute Even wealthy people in the suburbs. Programs designed to help the poor must perennially contend with this awkward fact: We need people who aren’t poor to pay for them. And this is no easy sell. "They ask the question, 'what’s in it for us?'" says Harrison Campbell , an associate…