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Building Partnerships: A Conversation with Ashoka Fellow Mohammad Al-Ubaydli and Boehringer Ingelheim Executive Joseph Chalil
Dr. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli is the founder of Patients Know Best (PKB), a technology platform that allows patients to securely view their medical records and share their information with other doctors and family members, giving individual patients easy access to and control over their medical data. Dr...
Ashoka Plays Matchmaker to Businesses and Social Entrepreneurs
Mexican social entrepreneurs Carlos Cruz was admittedly suspicious of big business when a group from Danone SA sought his help training low-income women to sell yogurt on the street. For six months, their teams met in neutral locations, hashing out how Cruz might adapt a life- and job-skills program...
EIR Lessons in perspective: A Conversation with EIR alumni Juan Loraschi
For information about the Executive in Residence program visit the EIR program page, or contact us at [email protected]. BACKGROUND – MEET THE PEOPLE EIR Juan Loraschi and host Ashoka Fellow Dorien Beurskens Juan Loraschi, Western Union Regional Vice President, partnered with Dorien...
Remodelling India post COVID-19
There has been a recognition and identification that the value systems that drive and underpin the development efforts by all of the stakeholders moves towards viewing the world holistically beyond our human world, acknowledging interconnectedness, embracing plurality, a resilient and sustainable...
EIR Lessons in Perspective: An insight into the EIR experiences of Western Union executives Emmanuel and Terry
For information about the Executive in Residence program visit the EIR program page, or contact us at [email protected]. BACKGROUND – MEET THE PEOPLE EIR Emmanuel Salvetti and host Ashoka Fellow Sunanda Mane Emmanuel, Vice President of risk and credit Finance for WU Colorado partnered...
What's the Endgame of Knowledge?
Once, long ago, social change meant “give a man a fish.” Then we figured out that “teach a man to fish” could be more lasting. Innovative knowledge entrepreneurs in rural areas of India, Africa and Latin America are taking things one step further. The latest direction would best be summarized as,...