Bunker Roy with Jesse Hartigan Empowering the Rural Poor to Develop Themselves: The Barefoot Approach Innovations Case Narrative: Barefoot College of Tilonia Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less…
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Peter Walker
Peter Walker WITNESS: CC TV for the Masses? Discusión de casos de innovación: WITNESS The WITNESS paper really does two things. Primero, it provides a fascinating account of how an idea became a reality, grew and evolved…
Pedro Gabriel, Gillian Caldwell, Sara Federlein, Sam Gregorio,
Pedro Gabriel, Gillian Caldwell, Sara Federlein, Sam Gregorio, and Jenni Wolfson Moving Images WITNESS and Human Rights Advocacy Innovations Case Narrative: WITNESS PETER GABRIEL: BEGINNINGS Back in 1988 I was part of Amnesty International’s “Human…
Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson Realizing Rights Fulfilling Humanity’s Promise to Itself This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It presents an opportunity to reassert the central importance of interna- tional human…
Peter Eigen
Peter Eigen Removing a Roadblock to Development Transparency International Mobilizes Coalitions Against Corruption It is estimated that as much as U.S. $1 trillion is paid in bribes worldwide each year.1 This amount is 40 veces…
John Ruggie
John Ruggie Protect, Respect and Remedy A Framework for Business and Human Rights Report of the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business…
Robert Faris, Stephanie Wang, and John Palfrey
Robert Faris, Stephanie Wang, and John Palfrey Censorship 2.0 The remarkable rise of social media has created a dilemma for countries deter- mined to limit Internet content. With current technology, the standard methods of Internet…
Jorrit de Jong
Jorrit de Jong Trends and Challenges in Election Monitoring Innovations Case Discussion: National Democratic Institute Election-monitoring organizations (EMOs) have shown a great deal of courage, expertise, and ingenuity in their work around the world. Trained…
Kenneth Neil Cukier
Kenneth Neil Cukier Seizing the ‘Arbitrage Opportunity’ for Legal Rights Innovations Case Discussion: International Bridges to Justice The idea of innovation used to conjure up images of scientists in white lab coats peering into microscopes….
Anand Kumar Jaiswal
Anand Kumar Jaiswal The Fortune at the Bottom or the Middle of the Pyramid? The Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) has emerged as a dominant concept in busi- ness, propelled by C. k. Prahalad’s The…