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Global Learning Revolution at the Nexus

Subra Suresh Carnegie Mellon University
January 24, 2014
At the nexus of the four topics contemplated this week at the World Economic Forum at Davos—disruptive innovation, inclusive growth, society’s new expectations, and preparing for a world of nine billion—sits the idea of a Global Learning Revolution. Technology is disrupting traditional models of classroom education. But it also has the power to offer billions around the globe access to a first-class education and the hope for economic advancement.  Business plus government plus academia plus NGOs—working together—have the opportunity to bring this global learning revolution to life.
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The New Frontier: Massive Data and Public Policy

Edward Montgomery Georgetown University
January 23, 2014
As dean of Georgetown’s recently launched McCourt School of Public Policy, I believe there is no better time than now to be a public policy scholar, educator or student.
 

The last several years have brought with them a deluge of data from sensors, satellites, cell phones, and digitized text that was unimaginable even 20 years ago. With it, the data brings amazing opportunities for public policy research on some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

Data Innovation 101

Travis Korte Center For Data Innovation
January 16, 2014
Excited about data? Join the club. Data, both “big” and small, has the potential to grow the economy, cut costs in government and improve the health and welfare of individuals around the world.
While some organizations have been slow to adopt data-driven innovations, there has been a great deal of innovation through the entire “data lifecycle,” which includes collection, storage, analysis, use and dissemination. Not all data-driven initiatives have pieces that fall into all categories, but most projects have some aspects of each category.

Collection and Storage
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Five World Trade Game-Changers for 2014

Kati Suominen
January 09, 2014
The WTO’s trade facilitation deal reached in Bali in early December adds to the past three decades’ dramatic expansion in world trade owing to tariff liberalization, regional integration, lower transport costs, and spread of global supply chains. Now five technology game-changers will erase many of the pending impediments to globalization – yet also give rise to new business and policy challenges:
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2014: Year Of The Open Ecosystem

Greg Satell
January 08, 2014
The most salient aspect of technology is its power to disrupt.  The important innovations are the ones that change our world so profoundly that the previous order becomes not only untenable, but unthinkable.
Yet the true impact begins not with invention, but adoption.  That’s when the second and third-order effects kick in.  After all, the automobile was important not because it ended travel by horse, but because it created suburbs, gas stations and shopping malls.
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Innovation and Technology for International Development

Gadi Ben Yehuda Ibm
January 07, 2014
Mobile technology can act as an accelerator to help communities in developing countries raise their standards of living and offer their residents more opportunities to realize their potential.  It’s a message that’s been overlooked these past few years from the spirited debate on the roles for technology and innovation in international development.
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Crowdsourcing for Humvees

April 05, 2012
Early last year, the U.S. military’s high-tech research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), tapped an online community of designers and car enthusiasts to whip up from scratch a fully deployable military vehicle.
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