Companies such as Facebook and Twitter have demonstrated how technology and the Internet can instigate far-reaching societal change.
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Then, you look at which industries are poised to enable societal change: energy, education, transportation, journalism, and so on.
However, my concern is that for too long women have been the unsung and UNPAID heroes during key periods of societal change and transition.
Long-time organizational change consultant Pravir Malik has recently begun working on mindfulness in the workplace as a tool for individual, team, organizational, and ultimately, societal change.
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Development, testing and deployment of ethically grounded policy and capacity-building tools designed to support national policies, with particular reference to environmental and societal change (including visibility and awareness-raising activities).
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Even with this unknown, major societal change, at the most basic level of early childhood experience, the possibility of some massively intellectual nation remains in the realm of science fiction.
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There are lots of local studies and initiatives that propose ways to fix these things, but our public health system is woefully underfunded, and translating any promising findings to meaningful societal change poses a huge challenge.
Societal tendencies change slowly.
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Ramarajan, McGinn, and Kolb attempted to answer several questions about the relationship between societal and organizational change.
Foresight activities aiming at identification of emerging ethical challenges in the area of development, with particular reference to environmental, societal and technological change, cooperating as required intrasectorally and with relevant international bodies.
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Hani Naim, a journalist, blogger and civil society activist, writes about how social media has united people of different religiousand ethnic backgrounds for the common goal of positive societal and political change in the Middle East.
For me that means also giving low income women access to birth control, sexual education in the schools, working to change societal stigmas about pregnant single women as well as workplace laws to make it easier for women to carry the baby to term and give it up for adoption if that is what she chooses, etc.
Being at TED, Tom also made a case that game mechanics can be used to solve many big societal problems like climate change, obesity and illiteracy.
Risk aversion at this level is a highly reliable and powerful obstacle to acceptance of change, and a cause of major and broad-based societal stress in times of rapid and inevitable change.
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That for Unilever, part of the journey is to resist becoming a bystander to climate change and other societal challenges.
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Gamification is currently being used intelligently to tackle some very big societal issues, motivating people to change even deep, ingrained behaviors.
's who rose from difficulty and used their success to address societal ills and their desire for change, artists like Blackalicious, Jurassic 5 and Bahamadia.
With the expectation that the burden from mental illness is going up and will continue to increase in coming years, Dr Saxena says societal attitudes towards mental illness need to change.
In the mid-90s, ARPANet was transformed from a military safety net to the civilian Internet that has become such an integral part of our lives, bringing with it change not only technological, but societal and epic in scope.
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People don't easily understand how a small sea level rise can result in bigger storm surges and coastal damage, or how slight changes in ocean temperatures can change global rainfall patterns, leading to droughts and floods with catastrophic economic and societal consequences.
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