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Reimagining the Power of One Billion Dollars

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Having just heard the new director of MIT’s Media Lab, Joi Ito , present the Labs’ latest approach to innovation—“Deploy or Die”—I was inspired to answer the question. This empowers each individual to set his or her own priorities rather than one-size-fits-all aid programs. billion poorest people?”

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Meet the Nonprofit Hero Behind the Hardware: Charles Brennick

Tech Soup

The winner of this year's award is Charles Brennick, the founder and executive director of the nonprofit refurbisher InterConnection. Charles got interested in this type of charitable work while he served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay in the early 1990s. He subsequently worked as an ecotourism developer in Costa Rica.