By forming an inclusive coalition of supporters of local campaigns against caste injustice, Dr. Lenin helps citizen organizations diagnose and treat the caste origins of social conflict.
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Sascha Haselmayer is creating mechanisms to spread innovation into cities, improve governance, and radically alter the way cities deliver much-needed services. With the use of new technology application concepts—a city as a lab—he is mobilizing a new community focused on making cities more...
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Politics in the wake of Brexit: In Conversation with Stephen Kinnock, MP
Ashoka UK’s Meera Patel caught up with Labour MP Stephen Kinnock to discuss building a constructive politics in the wake of the vote to leave the EU. Meera Patel (MP): What are the implications of Brexit for young people? Stephen Kinnock (SK): It poses a fundamental question about our future as a...
Ricardo Neves, a 33-year-old engineer, is launching an urban appropriate technology group designed both to champion new approaches and to serve citizen groups and local governments. He is well on his way to early success: pattern-setting Rio de Janeiro seems about to install its first commuters'...
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