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Signals - Stoplights for student success

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Simple communications design that everybody gets: green light, yellow light, red light. Signals blends two key ideas: The patterns of student failure can be spotted early: much earlier than existing systems relying on failing midterms! Purdue can spot patterns that indicate a much higher chance of failure, and intervene early.

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

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Majora realized that creating green projects and jobs empowers communities to see themselves in a different light, and that beautiful things happen in neighborhoods where people feel invested in their own economic and environmental well being.

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Foundation names Larry Brilliant chief

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Seva sent my buddy, David Green, to work with the Aravind Eye Hospital to some great results! Larry Brilliant is joining Google to run their Google.org foundation, according to this article from the SF Chronicle. And Larry's background with founding the Well and Seva Foundation is especially notable.

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Aurolab

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David Green calls the approach forensic accounting: if you truly want to serve as many people as possible, analyze the most expensive item involved and then figure out how much it really costs to make. Part of the systematic Aravind Hospital approach is manufacturing its own supplied through its Aurolab social enterprise affiliate.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

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The other social entrepreneurs profiled are David Green and Victoria Hale, two folks I greatly admire. They have kindly permitted us to post an excerpt on our web page. This was a pretty exciting project: it's also a video case study.

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Three Fabulous Conversations

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The Waste Concern approach creates good jobs for waste pickers, keeps the city clean, reduces green house gases, and prevents corruption (the auditing process for carbon credits is rigorous and doesn’t leave much room for funny business). They just need software to help cities understand the size of their challenges around these issues.

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Chuuk, formerly known as Truk

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We had good discussions about how to extend Internet around to different schools, and apparently they are talking to the Green WiFi/Meraki folks about a mesh network (which I think would be well suited to Chuuk). I was quite impressed by the people I met in Chuuk who are dedicated to kids and education.