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Q: What is the Future of Delivering Social Impact?

Mobile Afghanistan: How a National Telecom Network Delivers Social Goods

Delivery 2.0: How Governments can Deliver Better, Faster, and Cheaper

Eoin Daly, Seelan Singham

Crisis Maps: Harnessing the Power of Big Data to Deliver Humanitarian Assistance

Investing in Inclusion: How to Deliver Financial Services to the World’s Poor

Michael Schlein

The Fireflies Next Time: The Rise of Social Entrepreneurship and the Future for Global Capitalism

Richard McGill Murphy, Denielle Sachs

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Q: How do we Deliver Better Health and Prevent Hunger Worldwide?

How to Create a Food Revolution

A Cure for Hidden Hunger

How to Win the Fight Against HIV/AIDS

Translating Innovation: How to Deliver New Technologies for Global Health

A Healthcare Vision for Nigeria

Muhammad Ali Pate

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Q: What Are Some Global Leadership Lessons on Delivering Impact?

Balancing Act: A Conversation with South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan

Toward a Global Science of Delivery

The Future City

Jonathan K. Law and Shaina Doar

Delivery Starts with Women

The Origins and Practice of Delivery

Sir Michael Barber

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Q: How Do Social Entrepreneurs and Other Innovators Deliver Impact at Scale?

Ending Hunger in Africa

Soda pop and Vaccines: Leveraging Consumer Supply Chains to Promote Public Health and Economic Uplift

How Social Entrepreneurs Deliver New Solutions to Global Problems

We Need Business Models that Blend Profit and Sustainability

Your Cell Phone Can Change the World

Yvette Alberdingk Thijm

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Q: What are some of the biggest challenges in global health today, and how do we address them?

What does Climate Change Have to Do With Health Care?

The Fight to End Pandemics

Larry Brilliant

Realigning Health with Care

Rebecca Onie, Paul Farmer

Let’s Finally Get the Fundamentals of Healthcare in Place in Africa

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Q: How do we Solve the Global Water Crisis?

Water can be fought over or shared, but cooperation brings more benefits for all

Water as a Catalyst for Peace

An Inside Look at Water for People’s Everyone Forever Initiative

The Biggest Story of Our Lifetime is Water

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Q: How Can Big Data Have a Social Impact?

You Can't Just Hack Your Way to Social Change

Fueling and Igniting the Big Data Engine for Social Good

Moving from Big Data to Big Wisdom

Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

Jim Fruchterman

Big Data as Society's Watchdog

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Q: What are the biggest challenges facing women and girls worldwide, and how do we solve them?

Defeating Discrimination: How to End Violence Against Women

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Ending Violence Against Women is Critical to Ending the AIDS Epidemic

Making Girls and Women a Priority Today and Every Day

“We Want Quality Education Because We Are Children of Quality”

Harnessing the Media to Fuel a Movement for Girls

Shelly M. Esque

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Q: How Do We Feed the World and Still Address the Drivers of Deforestation?

The Need to Jump-Start REDD

Michael Jenkins

Can Saving Forests Help Feed the World?

Steve Schwartzman

A Promising Initiative to Address Deforestation in Brazil at the Local Level

Beto Veríssimo

Put a Price on It

The challenge of putting Brazil’s forests in good hands

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Q: How do we Cure mHealth Pilotitis?

The Role of mHealth in South Africa

Gustav Praekelt

Scale Can Happen: The MOTECH Experience

Taking mHealth Applications to Scale

Frank Beadle de Palomo

mHealth: Moving Beyond Pilots to Scale and Impact

To Reach Scale, You Need to Build Trust

Alice Lin Fabiano

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Q: How do we create a commodities market in the developing world for life-saving medicines?

Significant Progress in Lowering Mortality, But We Must Not Be Complacent

Raymond G. Chambers

Healthy Children are Good for Business

Creating an equitable commodities market for life-saving medicines

Jasmine Whitbread

The Missing Link: Reaching the Poorest Children with Life-saving Commodities

Charles Badenoch

We Need Strong Economies and Supportive Policies to Drive Local Solutions that Improve Health Care

Geralyn S. Ritter

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Q: What Does it Mean to be an Entrepreneur in Africa?

Subsistence Must not be Confused with Entrepreneurship

Why Entrepreneur Mentorship May Be The Answer To Africa’s Youth Unemployment Problem

Ashish J. Thakkar

Country Specific Knowledge is Key to Successful Entrepreneurship in Africa

Distributing Life-Changing Innovations into the Hands of Africa's Poor

For Africa, Entrepreneurship is the Way

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Q: How can Egypt build and accelerate an inclusive development model for all of its citizens moving forward?

Why Good Policy is Needed to Promote Inclusive Business Models in Egypt

Farmer Co-ops: Agents of Change in Egypt

Harness the Youth to Create a Culture of Social Entrepreneurship

Impact investing is Key to Inclusive Development in Egypt

Nadine Kettaneh

Empowering NGOs in Egypt: The Need for a New Legal Framework

Raghda el-Ebrashi

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Q: What Will it Really Take to End AIDS?

Tackling AIDS Requires More Financing, Coordination, and Momentum

Erin Hohlfelder

The Global AIDS Response Must Have A Woman’s Shape

Mary Beth Hastings

(RED) - Fighting For an AIDS-Free Generation by 2015

In Our Fight Against HIV/AIDS, Transportation Can No Longer Be An After Thought

How We Can Eliminate New HIV Infections Among Children by 2015

Nicholas Muraguri

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Q: What Role Does the Media Play in Accelerating Social Progress?

How Storytelling Can Effect Change

Christopher Gebhardt

How a TV Show in Kenya is Helping Stop the Spread of AIDS

Why We Need Solutions Journalism

David Bornstein

Eyeballs and Impact: Are we measuring the right things if we care about social progress?

How Personal Video Can Change the World

Yvette Alberdingk Thijm

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Q: What can Silicon Valley teach Social Entrepreneurs, and what can Social Entrepreneurs teach Silicon Valley?

The potential of data and human capital to change the world

Meg Garlinghouse

6 Things Silicon Valley Can Teach Social Entrepreneurs

Claire Diaz Ortiz

Stepping Out of Our Comfort Zone to Create the Barefoot Tablet

Innovation Needs Relevance

Dolores Dickson

Applying a Silicon Valley Mindset to Social Innovation

Jacquelline Fuller

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Q: Over the next 10 years, what will be the most disruptive force driving social progress in the developing world?

Why Gaps Remain: How We Can Unleash the Power of Data and Technology to Rebalance the World

Caroline Anstey

Lasting Progress Can Only be Achieved by Building the Capacity of Governments in the Developing World

Young People Have the Power to Change the World

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin

Why Social Media Could Revolutionize Third-world Cities

Luis Alberto Moreno

Why Sending Employees to Kenya For a Month is Good For Business

Stanley S. Litow

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