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11September2014

Ebola Epidemic Similar To AIDS Epidemic

In Behaviour Change Communication, Developing world, Ebola, Firdaus Kharas, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Media For Social Change

September 11, 2014

Response time is everything in a crisis. Without speedy action, more people die than should. This is happening in West Africa. Reaction to the […]

5September2014

Social Change Needs Visuals Now More Than Ever

By Mike Levin

In Behaviour Change Communication, Dementia, Developing world, Domestic Violence, Firdaus Kharas, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Malaria, Media For Social Change, mHealth, Refugees, Solar Energy

September 5, 2014

Some issues don’t communicate well with only words to define them. Try explaining the horror of an Ebola epidemic with a simple list of symptoms. […]

19May2014

Animation Rises In The Arabic World

By Mike Levin

In Developing world, Domestic Violence, Firdaus Kharas, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Malaria, Solar Energy

May 19, 2014

By Mike Levin Animation is pretty easy to understand. It is pictures of things that tell stories. It doesn’t have much need for metaphor or allegory […]

3September2013

How To Get mhealth For The Poor Past The “App” Mentality

By Mike Levin

In Developing world, Domestic Violence, Firdaus Kharas, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Malaria, mHealth, Refugees

September 3, 2013

The use of mobile technology in medicine – known as mhealth – has big plans. It promises to revolutionize health care by delivering front-line care to […]

28August2013

Looking For A 2013 Guardian

By Mike Levin

In Developing world, Domestic Violence, Firdaus Kharas, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Malaria, Refugees, Solar Energy

August 28, 2013

In the 13 years since the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals were first set, there’s come an understanding that without poverty alleviation, none of the […]

10June2013

What Happens When Activism Gets Animated

By Mike Levin

In Developing world, Domestic Violence, Firdaus Kharas, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Malaria

June 10, 2013

Chispa Productions has just wrapped The Animated Activist, an hour-long documentary about Firdaus Kharas’s No Excuses animation campaign against rape and sexual violence. For producers Randy […]

6February2013

Can A Fuzzy Definition Increase Social Justice?

By Mike Levin

In Developing world, Domestic Violence, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Malaria, mHealth, Refugees, Solar Energy, Uncategorized

February 6, 2013

We’ve just been through the United Nations-designated international days for cancer and zero tolerance for female genital mutilation. These are easy to understand because they […]

29November2012

Development Aid 2.0: A New Model For Funding Change

By Mike Levin

In Developing world, Firdaus Kharas, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, mHealth, Refugees

November 29, 2012

Those who created the software of international development aid are frustrated. They spent decades building a trillion-dollar architecture only to see it lurch, stumble and fizzle […]