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Coworker.org
United States of America
Coworker.org is a non profit organization. It is an online platform that puts the power of collective bargaining into the hands of all workers all over the world. It represents a salable departure from traditional union organizing by providing ordinary people with online tools and training to organize their co workers and advocate for changes on the job. When coworker.org launches it will be a petition based internet service. The workers initial point of entry will be the creation of a petition centered on the change they would like to see in their workplace and would target their bosses.
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Measures for Justice
United States of America
Amy Bach holds a B.A. from Brown University in English and American Literature a Masters in the Study of Law from Yale Law School and a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School. Following law school Amy worked as freelance journalist for The Nation The New York Times New York Magazine and Slate. Her experiences as a journalist and lawyer led her to write the book Ordinary Justice How America Holds Court. The book was published in 2009 and has received a number of awards including the 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the 2009 Green Bag Journal Award. Ordinary Justice was also a finalist for the 2005 J. Anthony Lukas Work In Progress Award presented by Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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Raheem AI
United States of America
Raheem AI aims to increase police transparency and accountability by eliminating barriers to reporting police misconduct. Its mobile tools deliver communities a secure anonymous and easy way to report and review police interactions. A lack of clear actionable data plays a major role in enabling police violence. Raheem AI is closing this gap by collecting and publishing data to be used to mobilize communities and advance evidence based policy solutions that end police violence.
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Re.Source
United States of America
Re.Source is a start up team based out of Stanford University funded by a Grand Challenges Explorations Phase 1 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They strive to deliver hygienic and aspirational sanitation service to some of the poorest urban households on the planet.
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The Institute for Transformative Technologies
India
The Institute for Transformative Technologies started in 2012 with a group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, with a simple but compelling question: how can the world’s leading centers of R&D solve the biggest social and environmental challenges affecting the global poor? To answer that question, ITT began with the 50 Breakthroughs study to identify the most effective ways in which advanced technology can move the needle on such problems. ITT now work with a global network of research institutions and inventors to find the most promising early-stage technologies, and then with established companies, NGOs and public agencies around the world to bring these breakthroughs to life.
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