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Recycled Bottles, Reclaimed Lives: A Shelter Innovation from South Sudan
by By IOM South Sudan 3/06/2025 Medium
“People used to throw these bottles along the roads,” he says. “Now, they’re part of our homes — they’re cooler, stronger, and resistant to termites.” In South Sudan, where communities face the twin crises of displacement and environmental strain, a powerful question is emerging: What if plastic waste, once seen only as trash, could help build a safer, more sustainable future? This year’s World Environment Day calls on us to #BeatPlasticPollution. In Bentiu, a town in South Sudan scarred by years of conflict and flooding, displaced communities are answering that call by turning trash into shelter.
Principles to Inform Drug Pricing, Access and Innovation Policy
Policymakers have made generational progress in advancing policies to lower prescription drug prices, especially through the passage into law of price negotiations, inflation rebates, and a $2,000 out-of-pocket cap for patients on Medicare. Yet critical work remains to provide relief for both people with Medicare and without, through lower prices for more patients and more medicines, and on a quicker timeline.
Advancing racial justice in our policies, institutions and culture.
We work with communities to build the collective power necessary to counter structural racism. Connected and aligned individuals, organizations, and movements standing together to inspire positive change can build a just, multiracial, democratic society.
A Brighter Idea: The Story of Five Regulations that Spurred Innovation
When federal agencies implement rules for efficiency, worker safety, or public health and welfare, companies need to reformulate their products and services to comply.
Racial Equity in the Arts Innovation Lab
Throughout Race Forward’s history, we have explored the significance of the role of arts and culture in movement building and advancing racial equity. With support from the New York City Cultural Agenda Fund in The New York Community Trust, we are pleased to launch our new Racial Equity in the Arts Innovation Lab, which will train 60 New York City arts and cultural organizations to deepen their racial equity work.
Catch Up on the Latest News
Journey through the history of art, music, and culture with critically acclaimed documentaries and in-depth storytelling.
Did a Norwegian law inadvertently cut innovation in universities?
by Making Sen$e Editor 6/6/16 PBS NEWS
Editor’s Note: For 31 years now, Paul Solman’s reports on the NewsHour have aimed to make sense of economic news and research for a general audience. Since 2007, our Making Sen$e page has vowed to do the same, turning to leading academics and thinkers in the fields of business and economics to help explain what’s interesting and relevant about their work. That includes reports and interviews with economists affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research.
PBS TEACHERS INNOVATION AWARDS PRESENTED TO 50 EDUCATORS FOR INSPIRING STUDENTS AND TRANSFORMING CLASSROOM LEARNING
ARLINGTON, Va., May 5, 2010- Today, PBS and its member stations celebrated 50 of the nation's most innovative preK-12 educators who are discovering new ways to engage their students and inspire them to achieve. The PBS Teachers Innovation Awards program honors teachers who are transforming classroom learning and providing children with the tools they need to reach their full potential and succeed in the 21st century. All winners will receive instructional technology resources from PBS and its partners and participate in a peer-to-peer network to share best practices using public digital media. The top 10 winners will receive a SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard System, a Logitech camera and are invited to the PBS annual membership meeting.
IOM Innovation Facility: Fostering Transformative Solutions
The IOM Innovation Facility is a dynamic platform that supports novel and transformative initiatives on migration. By offering seed funding, building innovation capacities, and nurturing an innovation ecosystem, it enables the creation and expansion of impactful and innovative projects. The Facility's approach centers on fostering partnerships and collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders, ensuring that innovative ideas can be effectively piloted and scaled to drive system-wide solutions.
Who becomes an inventor? This Arkansas innovation hub is trying to spark a new generation
by Jeffrey Brown 30/5/18 PBS NEWS
At MIT, Chris Jones led efforts to double minority enrollment in graduate programs. Now back home in Arkansas, he's on a mission to reduce barriers for low-income people, women and people of color toward becoming innovators, makers, thinkers and entrepreneurs. Jeffrey Brown reports.
Innovation Law Lab v. Wolf
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 11 individual asylum seekers and organizational plaintiffs Innovation Law Lab, the Central American Resource Center of Northern California, Centro Legal de la Raza, the University of San Francisco School of Law Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic, Al Otro Lado, and the Tahirih Justice Center.
Defunding Public Media Would Stifle Digital Innovation
by Jessica Clark 21/3/11 MEDIASHIFT
Given the toxic tone of the debate over the last few weeks, neither public media leaders nor station staff are eager to go on the record with their concerns. But behind the scenes, they fret that the most vulnerable dollars are those funding cross-platform, mobile and participatory public media experiments.
Coalition for Workforce Innovation v. Su
Business groups challenged the 2024 regulation in a Texas district court. On behalf of Public Citizen and the National Employment Law Project (NELP), we filed an amicus brief in support of DOL. The brief explains that misclassification of workers is a significant problem, that the 2021 regulation risked exacerbating that problem, and that the 2024 regulation was a reasonable step to eliminate that increased risk.
Symptoms of major policy disorder
Extortionate prices charged to desperate patients
Texas Professor Wins Nobel Prize for Battery Innovation
by Michael Coleman 9/10/19 PUBLICCITIZEN
Public Citizen’s Texas office extends its deeply appreciative congratulations to John B. Goodenough, a University of Texas professor awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work developing lithium-ion batteries.
Türkiye: Resilience Innovation Facility
Gaziantep is one of the biggest refugee-hosting provinces in Türkiye. Of Türkiye’s over 3.6 million Syrians under temporary protection, Gaziantep is home to over 440,000 Syrians. In this context, this initiative was launched to open a Resilience Innovation Facility, or Fabrication Lab, housed by Gaziantep University. This space is designed to empower youths in Gaziantep – whether Syrian refugees or Turkish host community members living in the area – by providing education, community, workforce, and business programming that teaches innovation, design-thinking, problem-solving, and change-making.
The NCLR Innovation Lab: Inspiring Entrepreneurship in Latino Youth
Underwater Dreams tells the story of a group of low-income Latino high school students and how they won a prestigious robotics competition. The goal of the NCLR Innovation Lab is for Latino students to identify a genuine need in their community and to develop a tech-based solution to address that gap or that challenge.
Innovation we could live without
Opponents of a national health care system for all U.S. citizens argue that such a system would cripple the privatized system’s ability to “innovate,” thus stifling the creation of new drugs.
What Does Public Innovation Mean?
by Richard C. Harwood 19/5/14 HUFFPOST
Recently, I was on the public radio program "Innovation Trail" in Rochester, N.Y. to talk about "public innovation." The station posted the following statement on its website about my appearance: "Two recent interviews by the Innovation Trail served as reminders of how often the 'innovation conversation' is framed in terms of technology and economics... " But as we discussed on-air, there's another way to define it.
Food Deserts, Community Colleges And Innovative Slackers
by Andrew Flowers 6/5/15 FiveThirtyEight
What they found: Giving low-income individuals better access to healthy food — fixing the “food desert” problem — would do little to narrow the nutritional gap between rich and poor.
The Invisible Shield: A Look at 4 Crucial Public Health Innovations
Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, a pioneer in shaping global public health, defined public health as “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private communities and individuals.
Cast Your Ballot for the Worst Prison Innovation of 2011: With Solutions Like These, Who Needs Problems?
by David Shapiro 19/12/11 ACLU
As 2011 comes to end, we’re taking a look back at the year in criminal justice. Over the next few days, we’ll run a series of blog posts on the developments, good and bad, that have shaped our justice system – from overincarceration and sentencing policy to the treatment of prisoners and capital punishment. Read the series here.
Innovation and Invention
by Laura Santhanam 11/6 PBS NEWS
There are lots of different ways to make a vaccine, but the ultimate goal of any shot is to introduce the body to the biological equivalent of a “most wanted” poster so that if the real enemy ever shows up,…
Innovation: Leveraging novel and transformative solutions for migrants and societies
IOM's Innovation portfolio is managed and coordinated by the Innovation and Knowledge Management (IKM) Unit within the Department of Policy and Research at IOM Headquarters in Geneva. The IKM Unit is the institutional focal point on knowledge management and innovation in relation to migration policy and programming. The Unit leverages innovative approaches and practices to enable systemic transformation, address pressing migration challenges, and strengthen partnerships with governments, the UN system, the private sector, academia, and innovation networks.
New IOM Data Innovation Directory Provides Insight on Migration and Mobility in Times of Crisis
“As countries grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, harnessing big data to effectively monitor and address social and economic implications has become more important in discussions around the world,” said Frank Laczko, Director of IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre. “Timely and comprehensive data are invaluable to designing policy responses in health, economy, employment, and mobility.”
Climate Mobility Innovation Lab
The Climate Mobility Innovation Lab (CMIL) is a key driver of
innovation, capacity strengthening, and collaboration. With a strong emphasis on scalable innovative scientific solutions and community engagement, the CMIL empowers resilient communities to adapt to climate change impacts and address challenges of migration and displacement.
Report: Regulations Spur Reluctant Industries to Innovate
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Many regulations that were originally scorned by politicians and industry as signaling the death of product lines, companies and jobs – including rules requiring more efficient light bulbs and banning chemicals that damage the ozone layer – in fact stimulated healthy innovations that have protected American lives and saved billions of dollars without harming industry, according to a report issued today by Public Citizen.
Climate Mobility Innovation Labs (CMILs)
IOM implements a vast portfolio of activities to address the environmental and climate factors that compel people to leave their places of residence, build the resilience of individuals and communities, provide effective and timely humanitarian and recovery assistance, and support migration management responses to climate change and environmental impacts. As a leading operational actor, IOM supports States and other players to operationalize responses to migration and displacement in the context of environmental degradation, climate change and disasters across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus (HDPN).
SPLC explores social justice innovation
A workers rights organization pairs with a tech startup to get unemployment benefits for gig drivers in Philadelphia.
