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The promise of the digital economy cannot be divorced from the gravity of the perils facing humanity and the globe. Individuals who embrace this challenge and opportunity manage to create innovative new technologies that do good in the world and chase the bottom line. These are their stories.

Revolutionizing Higher Education in India: Philanthropy Meets Innovation

In recent years, India’s higher-education landscape has undergone a significant transformation in its private institutions, driven by entrepreneurs and philanthropists. The traditional system, dominated by public institutions, has struggled to meet the growing demand for quality education and keep pace with global standards. This has created opportunities for innovative models to emerge, with the goal […]

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Driving AI, Data, and Diversity Forward

In a recent interview with the D^3 team, Debbie Botha, a global Digital, Data, and AI coach, as well as a D^3 industry council member and steering committee member of D^3’s upcoming conference, “AI Elevate: From Readiness to Exponential Growth”, shared insights on the rapidly evolving field of AI and data leadership. She discussed trends […]

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Christine Marie Ortiz Guzman on how we are all “designers”

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Christine Marie Ortiz Guzman from Equity Meets Design about equity design and designers, organizational responsibilities to change, and the relationship between capital and lowercase “d” designers.

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Here’s how to build a smarter app that could make working families richer

American workers need a financial tool that knows their story. Most apps fall short. The reality is that working families across the country face a variety of pain points when trying to improve their financial lives. Many experience volatile incomes, for instance, that make it hard to build savings. Others may find themselves shut out […]

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Space tourism adventurism

Hopes are high in the private space sector that the rapidly falling costs of accessing space will yield a wide range of profitable activities. In the near term, Earth observation and telecommunications opportunities will capitalize on swarms of newly-launched small satellites. Farther out, space manufacturing at scale, resource mining, and even solar energy capture bring […]

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Deliver social impact by speaking directly to consumers

The idea of using data to drive social impact sounds sexy, cool and exciting. But what does it mean in practice? Where are the tangible examples of how it is being done? Let’s first start with a more basic question. What constitutes social impact? To me, social impact occurs when a person has experienced a […]

Dawn of Vive Reality

In this keynote from our 2018 Digital Transformation Summit, Rikard Steiber (HTC VIVE/Viveport) lays out the possibilities of an exciting, new super reality that combines the latest technologies in AR/VR, 5G, and artificial intelligence. The future of VR is here.

Could a hackathon help solve the heroin crisis?

Is crowdsourcing really the proper strategy for tackling a health crisis as severe as the opioid epidemic? We admit to having our doubts. However, this case from Professor Mitch Weiss addresses those underlying skepticisms and offers a fascinating look at what can happen when innovative minds use creative tactics to get disparate stakeholders for a desperate problem in the same room together so they can finally start talking.

Mapping the burden of diabetes

Approximately 1.5 to 2 billion people in the world suffer from diabetes, pre-diabetes, or a complication associated with it, and yet more than 90% of them never even get tested. To combat this challenge, Professor Tarun Khanna developed a simple diagnostic device that works with any smartphone in the world. The result is a game-changing innovation that is reshaping the state of diabetes testing, treatment, and data analysis around the globe.

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