Companies use detailed behavioral information every day to direct products and services to individuals. What if this approach were applied to maximize social good instead of private revenue?
This quarter’s Matter of Impact explores how the properly tailored technology can improve and save lives across a wide spectrum. Our staff, grantees and partners discuss how data and technology can empower women, steer Covid-19 vaccines and even emergency cash payments to the most distressed places, nip pandemics in the bud, and improve access and reliability of energy to the hundreds of millions of people who lack steady power. These topics couldn’t be timelier, coming just ahead of the G7/G20 meetings this month, when international leaders will address ways to stop future pandemics and to use technology to assure a sustainable recovery from Covid-19.
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In the United States, when you face an emergency, you dial 911 and an ambulance will be sent to your house to help. What if people living in poverty all over the world could dial a number to have cash delivered to them in a crisis?
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Our work is focused on improving access to electricity, food, healthcare and economic opportunity. We do that through creative partnerships and innovative investments to extract more value from data and private capital.
- Food Advancing a more nourishing, regenerative and equitable food system
- Power We accelerate access to and consumption of reliable, renewable electricity in underserved, low-income communities worldwide, empowering hundreds of millions of people while building the climate-smart energy system of the future
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- U.S. Economic Opportunity Our vision is that every working person in America should be able to meet the basic needs of their families – and have a path to a better future
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