City as Laboratory Living Labs Global, a non-profit based in Copenhagen that promotes innovative solutions to urban problems, recently announced the winners of their 2012 awards. Twenty-one cities from around the world participated, and each selected one
Mass Advocacy and Controversy Invisible Children’s Kony2012—a 30-minute YouTube video—has gone famously “viral,” garnering more than 70 million views in a week, with numbers still growing. Yet, criticism is growing almost as fast: long-time advocates in Uganda
From a No. 2 Pencil to an iPadWe think The New York Times' "Room for Debate" feature is pretty darn cool. This week, the topic is classroom technology and the Times has recruited an impressive list of commentators. Tech-happy Americans are prone
Scorecards? Take a Number! The Millennium Challenge Corporation’s scorecards, which are used to evaluate a country’s eligibility for foreign assistance programs, have been recently updated with new selection criteria and methodology. Running the gamut from fiscal policy to girls’
All About Measurement In last week’s New York Times Sunday Review section, Robert Crease wrote a thoughtful piece about the limitations of our thinking about measurement. The essay points out how our obsession with measurement sometimes leads us to measure the
