Educational inequality refers to the unequal access to education. There are multiple drivers for such inequality: policy in government, difference in schools attended by the child, family’s socioeconomic status and the race & ethnicity of the child. This blog will focus on how the difference in schools attended by the child drives educational inequality. Further,Continue reading “Open source to reduce educational inequality in the United States”
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How OSD and transactive energy will power the world
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts global energy demand to increase by 50% by 2050. This growth will primarily be led by growth in energy demand from Asia, with the continent’s population projected to account for 55% of the world’s population. Incumbent fossil fuel resources are unlikely to be the answer to meet this hugeContinue reading “How OSD and transactive energy will power the world”
How the WBG and the IMF have failed to reduce economic inequality
The World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are amongst the most relevant and the most consequential multilateral organizations in the world aimed at reducing inequality. Their vast membership bodies mean that they govern the economic development of the world economy: the WBG and the IMF each have 189 countries as members.Continue reading “How the WBG and the IMF have failed to reduce economic inequality”
IP and OSD solutions compared
This blog seeks to compare intellectual property (IP) to open source design (OSD) as the two alternatives to determining the right-of-use of human-created solutions. What is intellectual property? IP refers to unique, value-adding creations of the human intellect that results from ingenuity, creativity and inventiveness. IP rights have been developed over the last 150 yearsContinue reading “IP and OSD solutions compared”
