GKI nominated for Rockefeller Foundation Award

Our friend, collaborator, and Penn State University assistant professor of entomology Dr. David Hughes has a venture aimed at sharing knowledge on gardening and farming that he’s started with Penn State biologist Dr. Marcel Salathe (check out Salathe’s lab here). They have designed their website, PlantVillage, to help people garden, farm, and generally grow their…

A group of over 100 policymakers, industrial representatives, academicians, and others met at the Kigali Health Institute on May 2, 2013 to kick off a review of Rwanda’s Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) Policy. The policy, which was published in 2005, describes far-reaching goals for harnessing STI for economic development and poverty reduction. Rwanda’s Ministry…

When facing a world of challenges and opportunities—both those that are well known, and the many more that will come into prominence in the future—how do we choose where to devote our time and resources? One method to inform such choices, which the Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI) is testing with The Rockefeller Foundation: convening diverse, creative, and…

How can a resource-constrained government determine what social or economic challenges it should take on, and when?  Once the government has identified these challenges, how can it quickly establish systems for developing and implementing solutions?  In 2015, the Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI) partnered with designer Mariko Takeuchi, the World Bank, and the South African government to help…