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Leading social entrepreneurs join Stanford community
April 2017
Stanford’s Program on Social Entrepreneurship welcomes four social entrepreneurs to campus in spring quarter to engage students and the Stanford community with leaders in the social sector.
World Bank chief presents plan to end extreme poverty, prevent pandemic
November 2015
Stanford students belong to the first generation that could witness the end of extreme global poverty – in what would be one of humankind's greatest achievements – the head of the World Bank said...
Teaching values and purpose for social change
September 2015
This article originally appeared in the Stanford Social Innovation Review on Sept.
Conference explores initiatives to curb youth violence in Latin America and US
July 2015
In April, the Program on Poverty and Governance (PovGov) at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law welcomed academics, policymakers, practitioners and youth leaders from...
Tackling development challenges in Africa, three social entrepreneurs join Stanford community
March 2013
In April, three social entrepreneurs working to advance social, economic, and political change in Africa will spend the spring quarter in residency at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the...
In Kenyan slum, mobile phones pinpoint better water
October 2012
An innovative course at Stanford is designing mobile phone platforms that help improve living conditions in Kenya's largest slums.
Exploring new technologies at Stanford to monitor human rights
August 2012
Teaming up with the Brookings Institution and Google, CDDRL hosted a workshop to bring together four United Nations special rapporteurs, civil society activists, technologists and government donors...
Researchers call for policy, aid and innovation to help world’s poorest
April 2012
Bill Gates spoke to a Stanford audience about the importance of foreign aid and product innovation in the fight against chronic hunger, poverty and disease in the developing world.
Top British advisor joins Stanford as visiting scholar
March 2012
Steve Hilton has served as David Cameron’s senior advisor since the British prime minister was elected in 2010.
Safadi-Stanford Initiative convenes Washington policymakers
December 2011
On December 6, the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law together with the Safadi Foundation USA inaugurated the Safadi-Stanford...
Stern discusses strengthening grassroots in Africa providing the “last mile”
October 2011
In the October 13 seminar entitled, "The Last Mile: Grassroots Development and Technology in Africa” Joshua Stern, executive director of Envaya, and Jesse Young, CTO of Envaya, shared their...
Advancing energy sector reform in Lebanon
September 2011
The Program on Arab Reform and Democracy (ARD) at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, together with the Safadi Foundation USA (SFUSA) and the Center for International Private...
Kavita Ramdas joins CDDRL's new program on social entrepreneurship
September 2011
The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University announced today that Kavita N.
Bridging Silicon Valley and Tahrir Square
June 2011
The Program on Liberation Technology at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) hosted two events in May, which brought together the technology and activist communities in...
Announcing the 2012 CDDRL senior honors students
April 2011
The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University is pleased to announce the 2012 class of Senior Honors Students.
Fukuyama on China's potential for revolution
March 2011
Francis Fukuyama, resident fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, comments on China's potential for popular uprising in a piece for The Wall Street Journal.
SSIPI partnership launches open call for papers on Lebanon
March 2011
The Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University, the Safadi Foundation USA (SFUSA), and the Center on...
Fung on why technology hasn't revolutionized politics
March 2011
Archon Fung, Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship at the Harvard Kennedy School, delivered the March 3 Liberation Technology seminar titled, Why Technology Hasn't Revolutionized...
How the Kremlin Harnesses the Internet
January 2011
Hours before the judge in the latest Mikhail Khodorkovsky trial announced yet another guilty verdict last week, Russia’s most prominent political prisoner was already being attacked in cyberspace....
Jonathan Zittrain on minds for sale
January 2011
The first Liberation Technology seminar of the winter quarter on January 6, featured Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet &...
Honors students explore challenges of policy implementation, assessment in Washington, D.C.
September 2010
In September, honors students from FSI's two undergraduate honors programs - the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) and the Center for International Security and...
FSI's Technology, Governance, and Global Development Conference
May 2010
In mid-April, FSI convened a conference on Technology, Governance, and Global Development, to examine how technical innovation solves, or fails to solve, the problems of global underdevelopment....
Elizabeth Eagen on human rights, evidence-based policymaking, and donor support for technology innovation
January 2010
Elizabeth Eagen introduced the Human Rights Data Initiative at the Open Society Institute - a project to support human rights organizations in using technology to further their goals.
Matt Halprin and Stephen King on using technology to catalyze large-scale social change
October 2009
Matt Halprin is a Partner leading Omidyar Network's Media and Stephen King is the Director of Investments and is based in London.
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