A direct democracy tool that allows citizens to report, ideate, and vote on improvement proposals for public spaces in their neighborhood and reference area; and to vote on the sectors deemed most important for the neighborhood’s public policies—urban greenery, mobility,…
Italian railway stations: modal exchange centers, where you can park your bicycle before taking the train, and upon arrival, reach the bus stop via protected pedestrian paths. Service hubs, not just commercial centers, useful in large cities for those who…
An Environmental Quality Analyst with the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), Courtney Fung works on hazardous waste sites to clean them up so they are usable or at least so they present less of an exposure risk…
Campaigns for social change and consumer brands are often reluctant bedfellows but Jo Hobbs and Maddie Smith are big believers in corporate matchmaking. Hobbs is chief executive of the British Youth Council (BYC), while Smith is U.K. managing director of…
This June, the Biden administration’s new two-year fellowship program to get technologists into the U.S. federal government launches its first cohort. For Caitlin Gandhi, co-founder of the U.S. General Services Administration’s U.S. Digital Corps, it is step one in a…
“Politics is basically how we as a society decide to set the rules and solve our biggest issues,” says Damian Boeselager, a 33-year-old member of the European parliament (MEP) who has represented pan-European party Volt since 2019. Together with two…
There are now over 100 biobanks worldwide, ranging from small university-based repositories to larger collections supported by governments. These collections of human biological samples, stored in cryogenic facilities could revolutionize medicine by giving researchers access to population-wide data through which…
Liam Black has an ambitious – some would say utopian – idea. Put 3,000 social policy makers together with climate change activists, human rights lawyers, diversity campaigners, and philanthropists, give the concoction a shake and a stir, and expect the…
We launched our latest podcast series, Driving Change Books, as the summer began. The series is hosted by Matthew Bishop, a former Economist journalist turned social entrepreneur and the author of several books, who talks with the authors of some…
In India, an elected member of Parliament (MP) represents, on average, 2.5 million citizens. This is by far the largest political representation ratio in the world, more than three times that of the United States’ House of Representatives. Does this…