As part of a package of initiatives to reduce gun violence this summer, Mayor de Blasio hopes to expand New York’s youth sports program—called Saturday Night Lights—by 400%. Read more in Fast Company The other SNL: New York City’s athletic…
The question we want to be able to answer is how does TikTok compare against Twitter or WeChat as against WhatsApp. And what we’ve essentially found is that things like GDPR have done a lot of good in terms of…
Tony’s Chocolonely started as a small social enterprise that sources cacao to ensure farmers a ‘living wage’ and has now expanded to a fast-growing international company, whose sourcing principles have been followed by the largest Dutch supermarket chain. Read more…
There are numerous well-known orchestrators managing platform-based ecosystems engaged in social media, e-commerce, transportation, banking, and even mining. These include tech leaders Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple, as well as longer-established companies, such as Maersk and Cisco Read more in…
In the age of social media, blogs, and online forums, the most common practice when feeling slightly under the weather has undeniably become to resort to a quick Google search. Unfortunately, when they are not unnecessarily worrying, the answers found…
Citizens, activists and youth are crying out for strong action, while complex changes are required within governments, business and our research institutions. No single social innovator or institution can single-handedly respond, recover and reset from the greatest crisis we have…
It increasingly seems that the ease and infinite variety of online dating presents its users with a double-edged deal. The good news is that nearly all people now have an almost unfathomable array of sexual and romantic choices. Read more…
Facebook reported a huge, 134% increase in the number of hate posts it removed from its primary social media platform from the first quarter to the second quarter. The company says in a new Community Standards Enforcement Report that it took action…
As our collective attention has shifted toward the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbury and the resulting international protests, the role of social media in amplifying injustice has become even clearer. But for many of us, the…
With Apple and Google announcing more details for their exposure notification API, it’s clear coronavirus contact tracing apps are coming. But it’s not clear people will use them. Read more in Fast Company Contact tracing apps are on the way.…
