Recently, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) – an advisory group of leading scientists and engineers – released a report...

In 2010, Qualcomm’s Wireless Reach initiative helped launch the Mobile Health Information System (MHIS) project to improve the ability of health care workers to care for their patients.

When I think of last year’s devastating tsunami that ravaged the northeastern coast of Japan, I recall the first images I saw on the news. The horror of ocean waters crashing onto the land, causing incomprehensible damage was astonishing. As with any natural disaster, we are left with the overwhelming task of rebuilding communities and restoring critical social services to displaced citizens.

Through decades of research, the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) has documented the importance of collaboration in enabling teachers to improve their practice. Often, however, the norm for teachers in the United States is to work in isolation, cut off from colleagues and from technology that can help them access resources and expertise. This isolation is especially detrimental for new teachers, who are at the highest risk for leaving the profession.

Each year, an astonishing 7.6 million children around the world die before their fifth birthday. The heartbreaking fact is that a large majority of these deaths are preventable. For the first time in history, the technology and the knowledge now exist to address this terrible problem by bringing life-saving interventions, even to those that live in the hardest-to-reach areas.