Fighting Ebola. Ebola is a global crisis that affects us all.
Whether you've been casually following the outbreak from afar or you're on the front-lines fighting the disease, your perspective matters. About This Challenge Faced with the escalating Ebola epidemic and the need for a coordinated global response, USAID and partners have seen a clear urgency for innovative ideas to improve healthcare delivery and restrict the spread of the disease. On September 26th, 2014, President Obama announced this need and called upon everyone, together, to design the next solution. In response to this crisis, USAID and partners have launched Fighting Ebola: A Grand Challenge for Development to help healthcare workers on the front lines provide better care and stop the spread of Ebola. You don’t have to be an expert in healthcare or infectious disease to contribute your insights and ideas – in fact, some of the brightest solutions may be found in the most unthinkable corners.
How it works How you can help. Grand Challenges Canada. What does it take for a nation to become prosperous?
There are really only two primary sources of prosperity: material resources found in the ground and ideas found in peoples’ heads. In what we call ‘developed’ nations, it is widely agreed that mining ideas and turning them into goods and services that people value – a process called innovation – is key to stimulating economic growth, creating jobs and fostering prosperity. If innovation is key to securing prosperity in ‘developed’ nations, why would the same approach not make sense for developing nations? Innovation is a term used so widely these days that it can become easy to overlook the powerful and important concept that lies at its centre: to harness good ideas to overcome established problems in ways that are better, easier and less costly.
News Challenge - How can we harness data and information for the health of communities? - OpenQRS: Open Source Tools to Assure the Quality, Reliability and Safety of Health Care Devices. OpenQRS harnesses new tech- sensors, wifi, mobile- to develop an open data system to assure quality, reliability, safety (QRS) of health care devices with the goal to make it easy, effective and affordable to monitor QRS data for devices anywhere.
Idea OpenQRS engages health care product designers passionate to harness new technology, such as sensors, wireless, mobile - to develop an open data system that informs the public about the quality, reliability and safety (QRS) of health care devices with the goal to make it easy, effective and affordable to monitor QRS data for devices deployed anywhere in the world. OpenQRS aims to enhance the design and development process of health care devices by encouraging collaboration among hardware/software developers, fostering cocreation with end users, and providing the public with useful data about health care devices.
Problem. Grand Challenges Canada. Grand Challenges Canada, which is funded by the Government of Canada, has developed the Stars in Global Health program to support Bold Ideas with Big Impact from the best and brightest talent, both in low- and middle-income countries and in Canada, to use scientific/technical, social and business innovation to address some of the most pressing global health challenges.
This Request for Proposals is now closed. Round 7 Applicants will be notified in July 2014 regarding the application decision. Note to applicants from Peru / Nota para los solicitantes del Perú: Clique aquí para más información sobre ayuda adicional para innovadores basados en el Perú. Deadline: Monday, March 10, 2014, at 3:00 p.m. ET In the Round 7 Request for Proposals, Grand Challenges Canada seeks bold ideas aligned with innovative social entrepreneurial approaches that could be easily implemented in developing countries to save and improve lives. Please submit queries to stars@grandchallenges.ca. Keeping Up with the Indians. Integrity by Design - Home. 2012 Global Peace Index « Vision of Humanity. Through See the latest peace news and research Contact us Vision of Humanity is an initiative of the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).
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Social Impact Bonds: Lessons from the Field. In piloting social impact bonds, governments have already yielded some lessons from the field.
A year after the British Ministry of Justice piloted social impact bonds to reduce the 60 percent recidivism rate for the 3,000 criminal offenders who passed through the doors of a private prison in Peterborough, UK, the innovative funding mechanism captured the imagination of many social entrepreneurs. These bonds, also known as pay-for-success contracts, promise to transform the relationship between governments, nonprofits, and funders. “Social impact bonds” became one of the top ten buzzwords of 2011.
Health Innovation. Research.