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It is hard to shake off the bureaucratic image of government institutions, but try to Imagine the possibilities when they begin to tap into the potential of crowdsourcing, depart from dependence on inner circle of experts to tackle public issues and embrace a more open, creative and chaotic...

We recently spoke with Ashoka Fellow Steve Collins. Steve is one of our Fellows from Ireland and also a 2010 Ashoka Globlizer Fellow. Steve has revolutionized community-based therapeutic care of Severe Acute Malnutrition through ready-to-use food and more effective distribution. His organizations...

A great new video out of the Ashoka-Lemelson partnership. Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow Hilmi Quraishi and Microsoft partner to exchange knowledge, scale Hilmi's mobile inventions, and demonstrate the power of collaboration between the private and citizen sectors:

Pop-quiz: 1) What is a Hybrid Value Chain (HVC)? 2) Why should you care? The answer to the first question is a freebie (just see the blue box), however, the second one is not necessarily an easy one to answer. Why should you think about HVCs? Well, you shouldn’t until it becomes clear that HVCs are...

If you were to argue that serving those who earned less than $2 a day would be profitable a few decades ago, it's most likely that you would be labeled as a radical idealist like C.K. Prahalad. But today we have begun to witness the rush of leading consumer corporations like Nestle and P&G to serve...

G20 members commit half a billion dollars to the winners of the SME Finance Challenge At today's closing ceremonies of the Group of 20's Seoul Summit, Ashoka Vice President Bill Carter joined US President Barack Obama, Korean President Lee Myung-bak, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on...

Ashoka founder and CEO Bill Drayton has contributed an essay to McKinsey&Company's new What Matters publication and website. In it he describes the qualities and instincts of social entrepreneurs, sharing lessons learnt from 30 years of seeking out the world's most high-impact changemakers. He goes...

Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies (MILLEE), a non-profit organization uses mobile phone games to improve literacy skills in emerging countries. Founded in 2004, MILLEE develops human-centred, immersive and enjoyable language learning mobile games which are modelled...

The citizen sector is learning how to collaborate beyond individual practices and fields of work. In powerful and strategic partnership, social innovators across sectors spread ideas broadly to ultimately change whole systems. This is collaborative entrepreneurship. Ashoka Founder & CEO Bill Drayton...