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Today’s children need not only basic education, but also the ability to deal with an increasingly complex and connected world. We need to create inclusive educational solutions that address all sections of society and help transform them. Now, more than ever before, it is critical to look at solutions that complement the framework of traditional schooling. Minimally Invasive Education™ is one such solution – a solution that uses the power of collaboration and the natural curiosity of children to catalyze learning.
We are delighted to be celebrating our ten year anniversary as a social enterprise. Read a letter from our CEO and co-founder Jeremy Hockenstein and then download our anniversary e-book; "The Confidence to Dream". See pictures from our 10th Anniversary celebration in Phnom Penh here .
For the sake of decency, I call for a perversion of common standards or at least a productive distortion of such. I ask the reader to consider race as technology. This proposition moves race away from the biological and genetic systems that have historically dominated its definition toward questions of technological agency.
J-PAL is currently accepting applications on an ongoing basis. To see the list of current job postings, please use the search box on the left. To see all available jobs, click here . J-PAL is a network of 64 affiliated professors around the world who are united by their use of randomized evaluations to answer questions critical to poverty alleviation. J-PAL’s headquarters are at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and J-PAL’s regional offices are in Paris (France), Santiago (Chile), Chennai (India), and Cape Town (South Africa).
SNV is an international not-for-profit development organisation . We believe that no-one should have to live in poverty and that all people should have the opportunity to pursue their own sustainable development . Starting out in the Netherlands more than 40 years ago, we now work in 36 countries in Africa , Asia , and Latin America . Our global team of advisors use their specialist expertise in Agriculture , Renewable Energy and Water, Sanitation & Hygiene to contribute to solving some of the leading problems facing the world today. Bangladesh , Bhutan , Benin , Bolivia , Burkina Faso , Cambodia , Cameroon , Colombia , Costa Rica , DR Congo , Ecuador , El Salvador , Ethiopia , Ghana , Guatemala , Guinea Bissau , Honduras , Indonesia , Kenya , Lao PDR , Mali , Mozambique , Nepal , Nicaragua , Niger , Pakistan , Panama , Peru , Rwanda , Senegal , South Sudan , Tanzania , Uganda , Vietnam , Zambia and Zimbabwe .
Over a few months in early 2011, in the course of doing research for an IFTF Tech Horizons Program’s study on the future of “open fabrication,” I convened what turned out to be a remarkable, free-wheeling conversation among a set of pioneering thinker/makers in China, Singapore, and the U.S. What started out as a set of distinct one-on-one research emails turned into a group discussion...