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Worker Ownership And The New Appalachian Economy

For a look at how communities in Appalachia are forging new economic paths forward, we turn to...

What Brazil’s Community Banks Can Teach Us About Local Investment

In many democracies, growing wealth inequality is showing up as a destabilizing force. What happens when we...

For Children Who Need Prosthetics, A New Design Process Puts Them In Charge

An estimated 10 million people in the world wear prosthetic devices. While these devices offer increased mobility...

Building Tech That Lasts — Learning From France's Reparability Index

Have you heard about planned obsolescence? It’s an industry practice of designing products with limited lifespans (thus...

Redesigning Kenya's Public Transport With Women In Mind

All over the world, women face astounding rates of sexual harassment on public transport. In Kenya, this...

When Students Build Their Own Learning Platform

With a group of high school classmates in 2009, social entrepreneur Simon Köhl built a Wikipedia-inspired collaborative...

Can ChatGPT Revolutionize Access To Justice In India?

Artificial intelligence apps like ChatGPT and DALL-E which can generate strikingly coherent text and images in response...

Meet The Start-Up Founder Connecting Arrestees To Free Legal Support

Founded by Jelani Anglin, Good Call is a tech hybrid taking on mass incarceration in the U.S....