Submitted by Keith Hammonds on Mon, April 2, 2012
Welcome to our brand-new website. You’ll notice, among other things, that the name at the top has changed: “Ashoka Knowledge.” And therein, as they say, hangs a tale.Four years ago, thanks to Knight Foundation, this initiative started out in life as “Social Entrepreneurs in...
Submitted by Keith Hammonds on Wed, March 28, 2012
Sanjana Hattotuwa, founder of GroundViews and a senior researcher at the Center for Policy Alternatives, has written a very thoughtful analysis of the potential social impact of Open and Big Data. What is "Big Data?" Basically, it's a huge dataset that's made broadly...
Submitted by Keith Hammonds on Wed, November 30, 2011
Yesterday, Ashoka announced the winners of Citizen Media: A Global Innovation Competition – four projects, selected by our Changemakers community from among 426 entries, that harness security technologies, crowdsourcing, crowd curation, and creative pluck to better connect...














