World Health Care Congress Innovations

The World Health Care Congress Innovations program allows global organizations an opportunity to showcase initiatives that provide affordable, sustainable and scalable solutions to improving health care. This site, developed in collaboration with the World Health Care Congress, is designed as a year-round community where organizations can present their programs and research.

Civil Society Magazine

Civil Society Magazine’s mission is to show it is possible to build a profitable and modern media company, which does not compromise on the quality of information and serves the needs of the citizen and the consumer.

OneWorld South Asia

OneWorld aims to be the place global citizens turn to for news and views from around the world not covered in mainstream media; we are also a key hub that Americans use to find and interact with like-minded individuals and organizations from around the world. To accomplish this mission, OneWorld has created a unique Web presence. OneWorld.net is an online media gateway for independently produced news on a host of issues that impact people worldwide. Built on sources from our global network, which includes nongovernmental organizations, development-oriented news services, foundations and research institutions, this unique Web space is both a search engine and online community for organizations and individuals seeking in-depth information or guidance on how to become involved in addressing challenges facing people worldwide.

Civicus

CIVICUS has a vision of a global community of active, engaged citizens committed to the creation of a more just and equitable world. This is premised on the belief that the health of societies exists in direct proportion to the degree of balance between the state, the private sector and civil society. CIVICUS provides a focal point for knowledge-sharing, common interest representation, global institution-building and engagement among these disparate sectors. It acts as an advocate for citizen participation as an essential component of governance and democracy worldwide. CIVICUS seeks to amplify the voices and opinions of ordinary people and it gives expression to the enormous creative energy of the burgeoning sector of civil society.

Fahamu

Fahamu has a vision of the world where people organise to emancipate themselves from all forms of oppression, recognise their social responsibilities, respect each other’s differences, and realise their full potential. In the ten years of its existence, Fahamu has made a significant contribution to media and freedom of expression in Africa, using information and communications technologies. Its flagship publication,Pambazuka News, an open-access, pan-African email and online newsletter with English, French and Portuguese editions, some 15,000 subscribers and an estimated weekly readership of around 500,000, is generated predominantly in Africa. The 300th issue was published in 2007. Pambazuka provides a vital forum for vast communities in the South generally marginalised by the corporate media.

IndianNGOs

IndianNGOs.com is a powerful virtual and real medium that aims to bring together various under-privileged individuals/ communities in India, the NGOs working for them, the Funding Agencies, Corporates and Government Departments supporting the NGOs, the Social Workers and Volunteers devoting their time and energy, the Common Man, the Celebrities from all walks of life, the NRIs who would like to associate with their roots, the Global citizens interested in India...and just about every one concerned about the Social and Developmental scenario in India.

Social Edge

Social Edge is a program of the Skoll Foundation that was inspired by Jeff Skoll's commitment to connecting people with shared passions. Social Edge is the global online community where social entrepreneurs and other practitioners of the social benefit sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources..

The Communication Initiative

The Communication Initiative (The CI) network is an online space for sharing the experiences of, and building bridges between, the people and organisations engaged in or supporting communication as a fundamental strategy for economic and social development and change. It does this through a process of initiating dialogue and debate and giving the network a stronger, more representative and informed voice with which to advance the use and improve the impact of communication for development. This process is supported by web-based resources of summarised information and several electronic publications, as well as online research, review, and discussion platforms providing insight into communication for development experiences.

Echoing Green

Echoing Green inspires, invests in, and mobilizes next generation talent to deliver bold solutions for social change. Founded by the private equity firm General Atlantic, almost 25 years ago, we have focused our efforts on identifying and funding promising social entrepreneurs to help them launch innovative social change organizations around the world. Since inception we have invested in nearly 500 social entrepreneurs who work to solve deeply-rooted problems in the world through their innovative ideas. Among the organizations we helped launch include Teach For America, City Year, Genocide Intervention Network, The SEED School, Global Fund for Children and hundreds of others. We also work to build a robust ecosystem of changemaking by supporting young people to select careers in social change; working with donors to approach their philanthropy in an engaged manner; and providing data that builds our field.

Africa.com

Africa.com is the fastest-growing internet portal to the continent. Providing your connection to Africa, the site has travel guidance, news, finance, information, and blogs from opinion-leaders. Visit Africa.com before you go or just to learn - from Cairo to Cape Town.

Health2.0

About the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge: The 2010 Health 2.0 Developer Challenge was launched on June 2, 2010 at the Community Health Data Initiative (CHDI) meeting at the IOM, with support from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The goal of the challenge is to continue the excitement of CHDI and to bring the Health 2.0 Community together for rapid application development, both online and in several physical code-a-thons. For more details see www.health2challenge.org

About Health 2.0: The Health 2.0 Conference is the leading showcase of cutting-edge technologies in health care, including Online Communities, Search and lightweight Tools for consumers to manage their health and connect to providers online. The next Health 2.0 conference is on October 7-8 in San Francisco, the culmination of Health Innovation Week.

Mayo Clinic is the first and largest integrated academic medical group practice in the world. Physicians and scientists from every medical discipline work together to care for patients, educate the next generation of health care providers, and discover new therapies. They connect with common, integrated systems and a philosophy of "the needs of the patient come first." More than 2,500 physicians and scientists and 42,000 allied health staff work at the original clinic in Rochester, Minn., with newer clinics in Florida and Arizona, and a regional health system surrounding Rochester. Collectively, these clinics treat more than half a million people each year.

Established in 2008, the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation (CFI) uses a patient-centered focus to transform the way health care is experienced and delivered. CFI is a multidisciplinary center that includes practicing physicians and scientists, along with experts in research and service design, IT and project management. Central to the methodology used by CFI is design-thinking – introduced to the clinical practice at Mayo Clinic by the first known team of designers embedded in a medical practice. CFI design researchers have led several transformational changes in health care practices, following a long tradition of Mayo Clinic innovations focused on patient needs.