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...
In recent years, civic innovation fellowships have shown great promise to improve the relationships between citizens and government. In the United States, Code for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Obama’s favorite librarian, the co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, a British knight of artificial intelligence, and the former CTO of Obama for America...
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...
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...
Ethan Wilkes is at CROWDFUNDx NYC today. The conference is aimed at building awareness around crowdfunding and the benefits it can offer businesses and...
We are thrilled to see Panthea Lee at the 22nd Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable. Beginning yesterday morning, the roundtable examines emerging information technologies and...
We are excited to announce that Panthea Lee is attending this year’s 2013 Forum on Communications and Society on July 10-13. Hosted by the Aspen Institute, the...
Panthea Lee and Zack Brisson are in Washington, D.C. today to deliver a talk on “catalyzing impact” at USAID. Focused on the topic of institutional investment,...
Before checking out the fireworks, check out this awesome report on civic engagement designed by Mollie Ruskin. Produced for the Bus Federation to document...
We are thrilled, excited, honored, and humbled to have among our ranks a Presidential Innovation Fellow! Congratulations to Mollie Ruskin, our tremendously talented creative lead,...
Jennifer Thibault is attending tonight’s NYWSE “How She Does It” dinner. The event is an evening of female empowerment and social entrepreneurship featuring speaker...
We’re delighted to welcome two new additions to our growing Nigeria team, Angela Ogbu and Nonso Jideofor. Angela joins Reboot from an impressive background...
In the run up to Kate Krontiris’s talk at PDF 2013, we’re excited to release our new brief “Reimagining Elections Administration”. The brief details the...
Nigeria is a country rich in natural resources. But a legacy of troubled governance has produced institutions that have struggled to manage the country’s...
Policymakers in Nicaragua’s autonomous regions are committed to children’s rights. But the complex context of these areas has inhibited the realization of this promise.
Access to reliable, locally relevant information is crucial for development. But in FATA, residents lack the information they need to live safer, more productive...
Representing 100 individuals and teams working at the intersection of design and service globally, Zach Brisson and Panthea Lee were listed on the Public...
“Following Pakistan’s May 11 general elections, the first in which political parties were allowed to field candidates in the region, residents across FATA face...
Jennifer Thibault was featured in Wakefield Design Story “Swell Morocco” where she discussed the process behind logo craft and her design for an elementary school...
We’re very excited to have Vicki Sotiros join our growing family. Vicki will support Reboot’s communications, contributing to editorial, social media, and outreach. She...
We’re thrilled to announce that Kate Krontiris will be joining TurboVote‘s Katy Peters on the PDF main stage during the 2013 conference on June 6-7. They’ll...
Thousands of people are victims of human trafficking in New York City. Services exist to help them, but reaching trafficked persons is exceedingly difficult.
Government accountability demands an engaged electorate. But in the United States, electoral participation is limited by systems that are out of sync with the...
Patrick Ainslie was featured on Caixin’s podcast this week. Titled “The Underground World of Migrant Remittances“, he discussed opportunities for inclusive financial services targeting...
Ethan Wilkes is joining Robin Hood Foundation’s Innovation Workshop today. The Robin Hood Foundation is bringing together a group of grantees with the best...
Ethan Wilkes is speaking at Columbia Business School‘s annual “China Business Conference” today. He’ll be joining a panel to discuss social media’s role in...
Hundreds of millions of migrant workers have flocked to Chinese metropolises in search of opportunity. But financial access has not kept pace with this...
Patrick Ainslie was featured on Monocle’s “Entrepreneurs” radio show today, where he discussed opportunities for inclusive financial services targeting China’s migrant workers.
In the wake of natural disaster, emergency relief funds are critical. But in 2010, for millions of flood-affected Pakistanis, a lack of financial infrastructure...
From the seemingly unending stream of political brinksmanship emanating from Washington these days, you’d think the country has fallen into a state of partisan...
Millions of China’s most vulnerable lack even the most basic means to save for their children’s education, make purchases on credit, protect their homes...
Millions of China’s most vulnerable lack even the most basic means to save for their children’s education, make purchases on credit, protect their homes...
Millions of China’s most vulnerable lack even the most basic means to save for their children’s education, make purchases on credit, protect their homes...
Millions of China’s most vulnerable lack even the most basic means to save for their children’s education, make purchases on credit, protect their homes...
Millions of China’s most vulnerable lack even the most basic means to save for their children’s education, make purchases on credit, protect their homes...
Millions of China’s most vulnerable lack even the most basic means to save for their children’s education, make purchases on credit, protect their homes...
Ethan Wilkes is attending the World Bank’s Citizen Voices conference today in Washington DC. The conference focuses on how citizen engagement can strengthen policy making and...
Ivan Small from the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion writes a great overview on Reboot and IMTFI’s launch event for Embracing Informality: Designing Financial Services for China’s...
Kate Krontiris will be speaking at the Digital Media and Learning Conference in Chicago tomorrow. DML2013 is organized around the theme “Democratic Futures: Mobilizing Voices, and...
We’re incredibly excited to welcome Samantha Hammer and Dane Roth to the Reboot family! As Research Manager, Sammantha will be Reboot’s research process guru, seeing our projects through...
Patrick Ainslie explains mobile money for China’s migrants in Technode. The article is an excerpt from Reboot’s recently released Embracing Informality: Designing Financial Services for China’s Marginalized.
“The foundation of most migrant workers’ sustenance is their relationship to a laoban,” Patrick Ainslie writes in Shanghaiist. The article is an excerpt from Reboot’s recently released Embracing...
In Ethnography Matters latest edition, Panthea Lee asks how to reach those living “off the grid”, such as victims of human trafficking, in the era of Big...
Reboot’s Patrick Ainslie and Ethan Wilkes will be spending the afternoon at the 2013 Wagner Public Service Career Conference. We’re looking for exceptionally talented collaborators to help expand...
We’ve made great strides in data-driven policymaking, open government, and civic technology—many of the folks in this room have made significant contributions in these...
Reboot’s Jeremy Canfield and Ethan Wilkes will attend the World Bank‘s Urban Resilience Lab tomorrow evening. They will be meeting a 50-member World Bank...
Reboot was thrilled to see a packed house at Green Spaces for the release of Embracing Informality: Designing Financial Services for China’s Marginalized last night. Panthea Lee and Patrick Ainslie joined First...
Panthea Lee talks mobile money in international development with TechPresident for the release of Embracing Informality: Designing Financial Services for China’s Marginalized.
In the run-up to the release of the release of Embracing Informality: Designing Financial Services for China’s Marginalized, Reboot’s Patrick Ainslie talks “handshakes over hetongs” in Tech...
By understanding the lives of China’s most vulnerable, and by designing services that align with existing behaviors and networks,” Reboot’s Panthea Lee writes in the Center for...
Ethan Wilkes joined the 3rd Annual NYU Social Innovation Symposium on Friday. Themed “Rethinking Impact”, Ethan moderated the Technology for Social Good panel, which explored the...
Reboot’s Kate Krontiris was among the featured speakers tonight for Social Media Week at the Centre for Social Innovation. The event, co-organized by SPCLT Lab brought a diverse group of...
Mollie Ruskin and Ethan Wilkes of Reboot gave a talk today at the Institute for Community Living to explore the processes of designing and delivering better...
China’s migrant workers are carrying their life savings around in their coat pockets. Reboot’s Ethan Wilkes argues it’s time to strengthen China’s informal economy...
From February 8 - 10, our own Kate Krontiris and Ethan Wilkes will be mentoring student teams at MIT’s Scaling Development Ventures conference, and speaking on...
Last week, Microsoft Research Fuse Labs hosted Reboot’s Panthea Lee at its annual Social Computing Symposium. This year’s symposium focused on populations and topics “off the...
Since November 6, we’ve been hard at work digesting the data we received from Pollwatch. We kicked off the Pollwatch project at the PDF:Applied hackathon last...
Reboot was founded to realize open, inclusive, and participatory platforms for human development. Working with the world’s leading institutions, we sought to work towards...
The newly released book American Dreamers, a compilation of dreams from inventors, optimists, and mavericks with ideas for a brighter future, features a chapter by Reboot’s Panthea...
Today, we are thrilled to welcome Ethan Wilkes! Ethan will serve as Reboot’s chief storyteller, guiding our communications strategy, media relations, and outreach. We are...
This week, Reboot’s Kate Krontiris is sharing her thought leadership as a guest blogger at Ashoka Changemakers. Kate is curating the Ashoka & Intel She...
Consider for a moment the line outside a half-empty nightclub or the “billions served” tagline. These indicators signal popularity, and they instigate that quiet...
On October 3, 2012 Reboot will be joining our partners at Safe Horizon at the opening of the 2012 desigNYC Recharging Communities exhibition. Our project...
Sarah Fathallah will be representing Reboot at this year’s Better World by Design conference. Sarah will be joining a panel of speakers addressing ”How to Design for Others? Research in...
Reboot’s work on a new civic engagement tool PollWatchUSA has garnered the attention of the New York Times. Reporter Sam Roberts writes about the mobile...
Reboot has been invited to join a select group of early-stage companies at the Behavioral Economics Summit. Service Designer Jeremy Canfield will represent Reboot at the Summit...
Co-founder Panthea Lee is lecturing at SVA Impact, an intensive program focusing on social entrepreneurship and design for social change. Panthea is discussing Reboot’s perspective on...
Design industry leading blog Core77 covered Reboot’s recent work with the World Bank. The project, a visual narrative about the growth and impact of...
On May 16th, at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum, I presented Reboot’s recent World Bank report on post-revolution Tunisia, as...
Several Rebooters participated in and won the Personal Democracy Forum‘s 2012 Civic Hackathon this past weekend. First place went to Jeremy Canfield‘s team created PollWatch: a...
Zack Brisson and Kate Krontiris, co-authors of Reboot’s recent publication for the World Bank, Tunisia: From Revolutions to Institutions, recently appeared on an episode...
"The opportunities and setbacks faced by the new Tunisian government as it seeks to provide the health care, economic development, justice processes, and other...
Reboot is thrilled to be participating in the second annual Core77 Design Awards, a progressive, industry-leading initiative that celebrates excellence across a broad spectrum...
Design research is foundational to creating products, services, and systems that respond to human needs. In the public and international development sectors, understanding and...
On Friday, Reboot principal and co-founder Zack Brisson joined representatives from UNICEF, Accion, Planet Finance, and the Pershing Foundation for a panel on Social...
Disaster. The word comes from the Italian word disastro; “dis” expresses negation, and “astro” means “star.” The word literally means “ill-starred event”.
But to call...
Our ace team of cross-disciplinary practitioners is growing rapidly. We’re currently recruiting for several positions. Please visit our Careers page for more information.
In the past few months, I have been doing some considerable thinking about the most useful role for connection technologies in getting better justice...
Reboot recently had the opportunity to lead a workshop for major national non-profits to share best practices and insights learned from our experiences using...
We’ve written previously about why Reboot focuses on services as a practical approach to achieving social progress and human rights. Inevitably, the next...
Co-founder Panthea Lee is guest lecturing tomorrow at SVA Impact, an intensive program focusing on social entrepreneurship and design for social change. Panthea will...
Dowser.org, which showcases the practical and human elements of social innovation, recently sat down with Panthea Lee to discuss Reboot’s unique approach to solving...
This site houses select outputs and data from the Branchless Banking in Pakistan design research project conducted by Reboot, in collaboration with MEDA, for...
For some researchers, travel in insecure regions or the mid-project client check-in are the most nerve-wracking parts of a field study. For me, it’s...
Mobile Money Afghanistan was funded by the Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion and frog design, and is totally independent of Reboot. I...
Those that follow this publication know that Reboot is passionate about improving the nature of transactions between citizens and the institutions meant to...
Just 5 kilometres from the peaceful, tree-lined streets and historic villas of Cairo’s wealthy Zamalek neighbourhood is the extremely poor district of Imbaba. The...
For the most part, the Western media spotlight has aimed at a technologically enabled, younger generation as the primary movers of the revolution. However,...
As Egyptians head to the polls for a historic constitutional vote, the world watches and waits to understand just how structural long-term changes to...
Egypt’s labour organizers have long been among the most vocal and domestically persuasive movements advocating for substantive national reform. While its demands began with...
Cairo - With Libya raging next door, the people of Cairo gathered for yet another massive Friday protest. Midday prayers saw several hundred thousand...
How are new communication technologies redefining the form and function of governance? How should these tools mature to more effectively enhance service delivery, improve...
The nature of citizen-government interaction is changing. Rhetorically familiar terms like Gov 2.0 and participatory democracy have emerged to describe this shift. Yet for...
Personal Democracy Forum hosted a highly thoughtful conversation at NYU last night. As is their wont, they convened some very bright but divergent minds...
Many people are working for change these days. Citizens, institutions, and governments alike are enthusiastic about the promise new technologies hold for how we...
Cities have critical information needs.
To reach their potential, communities require efficient information exchange among multiple stakeholders. But with communication channels increasingly fragmented, individual entities...
One presentation that perked my ears at the recent Columbia Institute for Tele-Information’s Mobile Money II Conference was by Judith Mariscal of CIDE, a...
Many of the world’s poorest live without access to basic banking services such as savings, insurance, payment services, and basic credit. Those in the...
