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Reboot Speaks at Media Rise
Zack Brisson will be speaking at Media Rise in Washington DC on September 28. Joining the “Policy and Civic Innovation Panel” with panelists from the World Bank and Sunlight Foundation, he’ll discuss how to transform the way individuals interact with government and nonprofit organizations.
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Reboot Speaks at TEDxCarthage
Zack Brisson will take the mainstage at TEDxCarthage this Sunday, September 22. Addressing the event theme of “Trust As New Currency?”, Zack will speak to how the crisis of legitimacy facing governments worldwide is evidence that our social contracts are due for renegotiation.
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Reboot at Center for Effective Global Action
Dave Algoso is speaking today at “Mobile Money: Technology to Transform Transactions“, hosted by the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California. The conference explores the possibility of anyone with a phone being able to send and receive money across the market stand, or across the world conveniently, reliably, and securely. Dave is joining the panels ”Engaging Clients and Customizing Products” and “Integrating Support for Financial Decision Making”.
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New Book!
Reboot is pleased to present the launch of A Promise to Every Child: Developing a Regional Policy for Children in Nicaragua’s Northern Atlantic Autonomous Region. With this latest project, we explored how to operationalize empathy in the policymaking process. Working with UNICEF, our goal was to equip officials in Nicaragua’s North Atlantic Autonomous Region with the tools and perspectives to engage their own communities toward the creation of a children’s rights policy.
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New Rebooters!
We are delighted to welcome Kristen Malone and Adam Parker to our growing team. Kristen is Reboot’s finance czar, charged with advancing our financial and administrative systems as our business grows. Adam joins the creative team as design wizard, bringing new talent to crafting all our visual materials.
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Reboot Hosts Event at Centre for Social Innovation
The final stop on this week’s empathy talk shop, we’re hosting Putting People First: Enabling Empathy in Policymaking at the Centre for Social Innovation tonight. Joined by a select group of practitioners, policymakers, and thought leaders, we’ll explore the potential of greater uses of empathy in policymaking in the context of international development.
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Reboot Speaks at UNICEF
Zack Brisson and Ethan Wilkes are continuing Reboot’s talk shop on operationalizing empathy today at UNICEF with Natalia Adler and Rafael Villa. For this event, they’ll explore empathy as a tenet of social innovation in development through recent work in Nicaragua.
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Reboot at the Inter-American Development Bank
Zack Brisson and Ethan Wilkes are kicking off an “operationalizing empathy” talk shop tour today at the Inter-American Development Bank. Joined by UNICEF Nicaragua’s Chief of Social Policy Natalia Adler and P-Lab Principal Rafael Villa, they’ll be discussing recent work on developing a framework for children’s rights policy in Nicaragua’s North Atlantic Autonomous Region.
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Reboot Talks at Centre for Social Innovation
Dave Algoso and Ethan Wilkes will be attending New York Social Good tonight, a new event series from Be Social Change and the Centre for Social Innovation that features both for- and nonprofit organizations trying to tackle the world’s toughest social and environmental challenges. Dave will be presenting Reboot’s experience of navigating complexity in the Niger Delta to help deliver better public services.
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Reboot Visits Purpose
Samantha Hammer and Ethan Wilkes visited Purpose yesterday to deliver a talk on Reboot’s people-centered approach to change making. We were excited to engage in a fruitful discussion about seeding citizen agency to create social change, and we look forward to future opportunities for conversation and collaboration!
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