by David Sasaki | Aug 2, 2013 | English, Omidyar Network, Open Government, Transparency Digest
Writing at TechPresident, Susannah Vila of The Engine Room describes how hackathons are transitioning from prize-based incentives to mentorship models as a way to give greater sustainability to initial prototypes. She points to Desarrollando America Latina, Developing...
by David Sasaki | Jul 31, 2008 | English
Judith Rodin was the first non-interim female president of an Ivy League university, serving as the seventh president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1994-2004. During that time the university tripled its endowment, doubled its research funding, and rose from...
by David Sasaki | Jul 27, 2008 | English
M.D. Leaves Profession to Blog Last week one of the most emailed stories on the New York Times website was about a medical doctor who traded in his profession for a more lucrative one: blogging. No, Arnold Kim M.D. does not blog about kidney diagnosis, his specialty,...
by David Sasaki | Jul 26, 2008 | English
Karl Brown, Associate Director of Applied Technology at Rockefeller and one of the main organizers of the Making the eHealth Connection conference. In 1889 American steel baron Andrew Carnegie published an essay titled The Gospel of Wealth. The essay makes what was...
by David Sasaki | Jul 23, 2008 | English
A Cameroon national, Fidelis Morfaw received his B.A. in Modern Languages from the University of Sierra Leone, his M.A. from Penn State, a Translator’s Diploma from Georgetown University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in Austin. He is now based in...