University Response to Social Needs

The Determination of Social Needs as Drivers of Social Innovation

Social innovation has been contextualized as a new way of resolving deeply entrenched development issues. The identification and resolution of social needs is said to be the driving force of social innovation. With features such as sustainability and scalability, social innovation has the potential to change the way we perceive and engage with development in the future. This research takes a cr...

Protective Social Services: Alaska’s Response to Meeting the Safety Needs of Its Population

This article explores the interrelated issues and policies represented in the pluralistic mix of government, private nonprofit, for profit, and Native Alaskan organizations responding to the safety needs of Alaska’s population. It assesses the provision of social services in responding to the need for health care, preventing crime, and interpersonal violence. Recognized is the need for partners...

Technology in response to local needs.

Science serves its readers as a forum for the presentaBef( tion and discussion of important issues related to the adfedera vancement of science, including the presentation of minority or conflicting points of view, rather than by pubwith p lishing only material on which a consensus has been and th reached. Accordingly, all articles published in Scienceincluding editorials, news and comment, and...

Global health response to crises needs reform.

Science in response to basic human needs.

Despite the tremendous accomplishments in science and technology during this century, we go into the next century with nearly one fourth of the world population living in severe poverty and the gap between the rich and the poor widening. How can we alter this utterly indefensible situation? What changes in our development strategy can lead us to a more equitable society? The formidable power of...