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(Cross-posted from Aaron's blog) For all the talk about games-based learning and gamification of the classroom, I'm surprised the question of assessment hasn't come up as often as it should have. If it does come up, it's usually in the...

Last Wednesday, Ashoka delivered a terrific panel conversation at the World Bank called, Public Goods through Social Enterprises: Creating Hybrid Value Chains. Bill Drayton and Valeria Budinich spearheaded the discussion with their thoughts on the growing impact of hybrid value chains,...

How can digital activists harness new technologies, tools, and platforms to be as effective as possible in their work? Digital organizing has arguably been at the heart of the recent protests in the Arab world. In the case of Egypt,...

<div id =”blargh” width=”200” height=”… > Whether you think of HTML as a familiar friend or a terrifying alien monster, we can all agree that sometimes code just takes too much time.  In an attempt to help a friend build...

This is the second post in a two part series on this topic. The first installment was written by TJ earlier in the week. The Exchange 2.0 conference at the U.S. Institute of Peace on 4/27 offered a stimulating discussion...

This is part one of a two part series on Exchange 2.0. Even though I never had the chance to do a study abroad, for ten years of my life I had over 150 international students live in my house,...

On Monday May 2, 2011 Canadians will be voting in the 41st Canadian Federal Election. The election comes as the result of non-confidence vote held on March 25th, 2011 that saw the defeat of the Conservative party’s cabinet in the...

Last month, the government of Sudan declared a “cyber-jihad” against youth groups and other anti-government organizations organizing protests in that country. Responding harshly to earlier protests with beatings and arrests, the government of Sudan has now turned its attention to...

The issue of Internet censorship has cycled throughout headlines, whether it’s Congress interrogating Microsoft and Yahoo! as to why they are selling products that assist Chinese filtration or Google deciding that they are no longer censoring Google.cn. The largest cause...

For the frustrated governance advisor, exasperated force commander, and perpetually under funded election observer the notion that technology can solve our problems is a tempting one. But as Dr. Raul Zambrano of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Dr....