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Q: How Are Mobile Phones Empowering Women and Leading to Better Maternal Health?

Mobile Phones for Women’s Empowerment

Jill Sheffield, Madhu Deshmukh

Mobile - A Bridge Across the Gender Divide

Patricia Mechael

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Q: What is the Future of Delivering Social Impact?

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

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

Richard McGill Murphy, Denielle Sachs

Mobile Afghanistan: How a National Telecom Network Delivers Social Goods

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

Michael Schlein

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

Eoin Daly, Seelan Singham

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

A Healthcare Vision for Nigeria

Muhammad Ali Pate

How to Win the Fight Against HIV/AIDS

A Cure for Hidden Hunger

How to Create a Food Revolution

Translating Innovation: How to Deliver New Technologies for Global Health

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

The Origins and Practice of Delivery

Sir Michael Barber

Delivery as a Management Problem

Kathleen McLaughlin, Jens Riese, Lynn Taliento

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

Delivery Lessons from China

Toward a Global Science of Delivery

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

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

Ending Hunger in Africa

How to Bring Quality Online Education to a Global Student Population

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?

Realigning Health with Care

Rebecca Onie, Paul Farmer

The Fight to End Pandemics

Larry Brilliant

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

What does Climate Change Have to Do With Health Care?

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Q: How do we Solve the Global Water Crisis?

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

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

The Biggest Story of Our Lifetime is Water

Water as a Catalyst for Peace

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Q: How Can Big Data Have a Social Impact?

Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

Jim Fruchterman

Nonprofits: Master Medium Data Before Tackling Big Data

Moving from Big Data to Big Wisdom

Big Data as Society's Watchdog

Fueling and Igniting the Big Data Engine for Social Good

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

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

Philanthropy that Delivers for Women

Harnessing the Media to Fuel a Movement for Girls

Shelly M. Esque

Making Girls and Women a Priority Today and Every Day

Defeating Discrimination: How to End Violence Against Women

Gro Harlem Brundtland

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

The Corporate Conservation Revolution

Jeffrey Horowitz

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

Beto Veríssimo

Strong 'No Deforestation' Commitments Save Forests and Feed People

Can Saving Forests Help Feed the World?

Steve Schwartzman

Put a Price on It

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Q: How do we Cure mHealth Pilotitis?

mHealth: Not a Standalone Solution

Gopi Gopalakrishnan

Taking mHealth Applications to Scale

Frank Beadle de Palomo

Programme Mwana: Designing mHealth Programmes with Scale in Mind

Merrick Schaefer

To Reach Scale, You Need to Build Trust

Alice Lin Fabiano

The Role of mHealth in South Africa

Gustav Praekelt

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

Creating an equitable commodities market for life-saving medicines

Jasmine Whitbread

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

Raymond G. Chambers

Healthy Children are Good for Business

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?

Country Specific Knowledge is Key to Successful Entrepreneurship in Africa

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

mPedigree: An African Blueprint for Consumer Empowerment

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

Ashish J. Thakkar

Subsistence Must not be Confused with Entrepreneurship

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

Impact investing is Key to Inclusive Development in Egypt

Nadine Kettaneh

Farmer Co-ops: Agents of Change in Egypt

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

Raghda el-Ebrashi

Harness the Youth to Create a Culture of Social Entrepreneurship

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

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Q: What Will it Really Take to End AIDS?

The Global AIDS Response Must Have A Woman’s Shape

Mary Beth Hastings

Tackling AIDS Requires More Financing, Coordination, and Momentum

Erin Hohlfelder

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

How We Can Eliminate New HIV Infections Among Children by 2015

Nicholas Muraguri

Turning the Tide on AIDS

Stefano Bertozzi

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

How Mobile Media is Transforming Africa for Good

Amadou Mahtar Ba

How Storytelling Can Effect Change

Christopher Gebhardt

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

Traditional Journalism Stresses Conflict — And Exploits it

Why We Need Solutions Journalism

David Bornstein

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

Innovation Needs Relevance

Dolores Dickson

6 Things Silicon Valley Can Teach Social Entrepreneurs

Claire Diaz Ortiz

We Need to Combine the Power of Satellite Technology with Grassroots Insight

Carolina María Gil Sánchez

Stepping Out of Our Comfort Zone to Create the Barefoot Tablet

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?

Ambition: The Great Disruptor

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

Young People Have the Power to Change the World

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin

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

Caroline Anstey

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