Technology & Innovation Archives

Apr 28 2021

Press Releases

Lacuna Fund Announces its Second Round of Funding to Support a Community-led Movement Towards Locally Developed and Owned Language Datasets Across Africa

Supported projects will produce text and speech datasets for natural language processing (NLP) technologies that will have significant downstream impacts on education, financial inclusion, healthcare, agriculture, communication, and disaster response …

Apr 26 2021

Statements

Statement by Dr. Rajiv. J. Shah, President of The Rockefeller Foundation, on LEAF Coalition’s Historic Expansion to Fight the Climate Crisis

Climate change is an existential threat, one that demands all of us to urgently consider every opportunity and scenario to reduce CO2 emissions. During last week's White House Leaders Summit …

Apr 15 2021

RF Catalytic Capital

Mar 19 2021

Can Technology Give Domestic Workers A Voice and a Safety Net?

Domestic work is mostly done and paid for in the shadows, and technology has a role to play in supporting this workforce: It can enshrine and preserve existing power imbalances, or disrupt them.

Mar 03 2021

Perspective

Designing Technology for Easier, More Equitable Access to the Safety Net

When people look for help from safety net programs, they are often at a low point. That the process for receiving legally mandated aid should so often be bewildering and, …

Mar 03 2021

Modernizing Access to the Safety Net

The social safety net in the United States is meant to not only give people in need the means to get by, but is an investment in a humane and …

Health Technology & Innovation U.S. & the Americas

Mar 01 2021

Press Releases

Founders First Capital Partners Announces Initial Close of $9 Million Series A to Support Underrepresented Entrepreneurs, Underserved Communities

The Rockefeller Foundation led financing as part of the Foundation’s Zero Gap Fund, channeling private capital for public good. SAN DIEGO, CA | February 25, 2021 - Founders First Capital Partners …

Feb 23 2021

17 Rooms: A New Approach to Spurring Action for the Sustainable Development Goals

A core motivation for establishing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 was to break from business-as-usual. As the past year’s Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing global crises have only underscored, …

Technology & Innovation Global

Feb 04 2021

Press Releases

Atlas AI Launches Aperture™ – Unlocking Unparalleled Insight to Target Investments and Drive Impact in Emerging Markets

PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA – Atlas AI today announced the launch of Aperture™, a market and economic intelligence platform unlocking unparalleled insight into demographic, economic and infrastructure conditions across the emerging …

Feb 03 2021

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Video

Bellagio Dialogues: Tobias Rees

Tobias talks about how technology is shifting paradigms to better address complex social changes and the implications of platform capitalism. Tobias Rees is Reid Hoffman Professor at the New School of …

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