Open for Innovation: The Growth of Social Entrepreneurialism in Uganda
Photo: Rachel Strohm (CC) This past summer, I had the good fortune to attend the LeoAfrica...
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Category: Technology Policy
Spraying the Skies: an Untested Stopgap for Climate Change
Late in July, an off-the-record gathering of experts and academics converged on the Grand Summit...
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Cyber Sirens: Heed the Warnings Before it is too Late
Photo: Yuri Samoilov At 11:48pm on April 7, 2017, every tornado siren in Dallas went off at the...
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Drones, Twitter, Data, and DJs: The New Face for Disaster Response
Imagine Hilary Clinton receiving her hypothetical “3am phone call” and entering the situation room...
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In Defense of Pretty Maps
Cartography is pretty hot these days. Maps tap into our brains’ spatial reasoning abilities to...
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Are Exxon and IPCC both right? If yes, what does this mean for policymakers?
Twenty-six years ago, as the average LBJ student was just getting started in life, the...
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Doing Well and Doing Good: The Business for Good Summit
The McCombs School of Business Net Impact Chapter is hosting its 6th annual summit on business and...
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We the Gamers
“Video games matter.” I have lost track how many times I’ve said that. It is not...
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Climate Change: A non-partisan issue in Texas?
Some interesting recent polling, including work done by the Yale Project on Climate Change...
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SXSW Eco Wrap
Much like the music, film and interactive iterations of the conference, SXSW Eco attempts to bring...
Read MoreClean Tech’s Real Solyndra
The iconic image for the debate on climate change over the last decade has not been footage of glacial ice tumbling into the arctic sea or the cover of An Inconvenient Truth (2006). It is the climate forecast PowerPoint,...
Read MoreKeep Your Hands Off My Privacy
Two recent events – one in the public sector, one in the private sector – have helped to engage millions of Americans in a debate on privacy rights and information security: the debate over SOPA & Facebook...
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