Fabian Pfortmüller and Nico Luchsinger The Power of Trust Learnings from Six Years of Building a Global Community of Young Leaders Innovations Case Narrative: Sandbox Sandbox is the leading global community for exceptional young changemakers. It exists to provide every young doer with a trusted group of peers and a place to learn from, connect with, and support one another. Sandbox counts over 1,000 members

Sabeen Mahmud Creative Karachi Establishing an Arts & Culture Center for the World’s Most Rapidly Growing City Innovations Case Narrative: PeaceNiche and The Second Floor Twenty-four years ago, I fell in love for the first time—with a Macintosh Plus com- puter. It had a tiny 9-inch screen, an 8-MHz processor, 1 MB of RAM, and no hard disk. It was the computer for “the rest

Mary Walshok A Systemic Approach to Accelerating Entrepreneurship Extraordinary changes have taken place in the United States since the mid-1980s, when the passage of the Bayh/Dole Act, which allowed research institutions to license inventions coming out of federally funded grants, and the creation of the Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) program helped unleash an unprecedented era of innovation and entrepreneurship across the country. Il

James Sumberg and Christine Okali Young People, Agriculture, and Transformation in Rural Africa: An “Opportunity Space” Approach Over the last decade, both agriculture and young people have become increasingly prominent on African development agendas. Politicians, policymakers, and development professionals have confronted food price volatility, food insecurity, and the phenomenon of large-scale land grabs on the one hand, and the entrenched under- and unemployment among young

Beverly Schwartz and Deepali Khanna Future Forward Innovations for Youth Employment in Africa Why do all of us as social entrepreneurs do this work? Because I believe from the bottom of my heart that poverty is simply unnecessary, and that we could end it in our generation—and that’s what we work towards y single day every single day. WHY AFRICA? —Taddy Blecher1 Africa is in

Jamie M. Zimmerman and Julia Arnold Hope or Hype? Five Obstacles to Mobile Money Innovations for Youth Financial Services Seen as a critical enabler of young people’s economic empowerment, youth finan- cial inclusion has galvanized support and activity all over the world, garnering attention from policymakers, the financial sector, practitioners, and researchers. En même temps, technologie, particularly the mobile phone, is increasingly seen as

Michael Chertok and Jeremy Hockenstein Sourcing Change Digital Work Building Bridges to Professional Life Sheba Achieng Otieno and her siblings were raised by a single mother in a house made of sheet metal in one of Nairobi’s massive urban slums. Sheba has one wish: to create a better life for her and her siblings than the one they were born into. Sabun Ou dreams of

Fiona Macaulay Toward a World of Opportunity Innovations Case Narrative: Making Cents International One evening in 1997, I sat in a shack in Khayelitsha Township outside of Cape Town, Afrique du Sud, and looked around at the ten adults who were about to be my students in a microenterprise course. Some were unemployed, others were just starting businesses, most were illiterate—and all were struggling mightily. Le

Shai Reshef Going Against the Flow in Higher Education Deliberately Including those Previously Excluded Innovations Case Narrative: University of the People If everyone actually had the opportunity to obtain a university education, the world would be a different place. I believe this so strongly that, though I could have retired in 2009, I chose instead to found University of the People (UoPeople): the world’s tuition-free,

Nell Merlino Cracking the Glass Ceiling and Raising the Roof Innovations Case Narrative: Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence My entire career has been about women and girls: inspiring them, making them more visible, and enhancing their economic opportunities. Dans 1992, I created Take our Daughters to Work Day (TDWD); dans 1999, I launched Count Me in for Women’s Economic Independence (CMI), to reach women

Martin Burt The “Poverty Stoplight” Approach to Eliminating Multidimensional Poverty Business, Civil Society, and Government Working Together in Paraguay Innovations Case Narrative: Fundación Paraguaya Over the past few years, my team at Fundación Paraguaya (a 28-year-old nonprof- it development organization that works in Latin America and Africa) and I have been developing a practical methodology and tool that allows poor families to self- diagnose their

Jacob Korenblum Frustration, Fearlessness, and Fortune How Youth-Led Startups Are Redefining Entrepreneurship In 2005, armed with two years of college Arabic and a vague employment contract, I tumbled out of a taxi and onto the main street of Ramallah, Palestine. The region was anything but stable. Six months after my arrival, Hamas won its first elections and came to rule the West Bank; roughly 18

Carl Schramm University Entrepreneurship May Be Failing Its Market Test One of the abiding ironies of business education is the now decades-old teaching of industry “best practices” to improve the performance of any organization, including how to improve the innovative capacity of a profit-seeking firm. For the uninitiated, this concept is as simple as its name suggests. To improve your com- pany’s performance, you look

Stanley Litow Innovating to Strengthen Youth Employment The financial crisis of 2008 exposed serious weaknesses in the world’s economic infrastructure. As a former aide to a mayor of New York and as deputy chancellor of the New York City Public Schools (the largest public school system in the United States), my chief concern—and a significant concern to IBM and other companies interested in global economic

Judith Rodin and Eme Essien Lore Youth Opportunity: Rethinking the Next Generation For at least the last 100 années, each generation has come of age in the face of unique challenges and opportunities that have ultimately defined it. In the early 1900s, it was the emergence of industry, which enabled young people to rise above their economic circumstances in ways their parents could not. Generations

Arnest Sebbumba Finding the Word for Entrepreneur in Luganda On March 29, 2010, we watched the birth of our first calf conceived using modern technology. As she entered the world, I was struck by how quickly she managed to stand on her feet. For such a delicate animal—when she lay in the grass her skin- ny legs looked like a pile of sticks—she was impressively

Philip Auerswald and Jenny Stefanotti Integrating Technology and Institutional Change Toward the Design and Deployment of 21st Century Digital Property Rights Institutions If you ask any economist what drives the development of human societies over the long term, you are likely to get one of two answers: technological change and inno- vation, or institutions, notably those that enable the definition and defense of for- mal

Jane Vincent Using Information and Communication Technologies to Support New Global Societies Today, migrants can count on the availability of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as powerful tools to mediate their trajectory of life.1 This paper examines the use of ICTs by some of the vast population of multi- culturel, multilingual, and multiethnic migrants living in Europe, Asia, Australia, the Americas, and Africa. Drawing from