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Employment & Prosperity

GSN Network of Networks

A resource for sharing, scaling, and connecting to global solution networks addressing employment and prosperity.

Employment & Prosperity – Digests of Major Concepts in Key Research

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Graphic digests highlighting key results and implications from select original research.

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10 GSN Network Types

GSNs contribute to global problem solving in ten very different ways. Knowing the type of work your network is doing can increase your impact.

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Advocacy Networks seek to change the agenda or policies of governments, corporations or other institutions.Building awareness to change the agenda. Click for examples. Platforms create the capability for other networks to organize.Enabling action and interaction by multiple players. Click for examples. Operational and Delivery Networks actually deliver the change they seek, supplementing or even bypassing the efforts of traditional institutions.Delivering the change they seek. Click for examples. Watchdog Networks scrutinize institutions to ensure they behave appropriately.Bringing issues to light. Click for examples. Policy Networks create government policy, even though they may consist of non-governmental players.Influencing and creating social policy. Click for examples.
Governance Networks have achieved or been granted the right and responsibility of non-institutional global governance.Governance without government. Click for examples. Diasporas are global communities formed by people dispersed from their ancestral lands, but who share a common culture and strong identity with their homeland.Global actors connected by birthplace. Click for examples. Networked Institutions provide a wide range of capabilities even similar to state-based institutions but with a very different modus-operandi.Legitimacy, broad reach and resources. Click for examples. Knowledge Networks develop new thinking, research, ideas and policies that can be helpful in solving global problems. Their emphasis is on the creation of new ideas, not their advocacy.Gathering and sharing data and ideas. Click for examples. Global Standards Networks are non-state based organizations that develop technical specifications and standards for virtually anything, including standards for the Internet itself.Creating common metrics for global efforts. Click for examples.

 

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Reading the Faces of the Poor

Reading the Faces of the Poor

Jun 29, 2015

One of the UN's MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) of 2000 was to eradicate extreme poverty by 2015, yet one in six people are still surviving on a dollar a day.  Or less. Striking photos by the Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Renee C. Byer have been collected...

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All Your Clothes Are Made With Exploited Labor

All Your Clothes Are Made With Exploited Labor

Jun 4, 2015

Verité, an operational and delivery network, has studied the issues of human trafficking and labor exploitation in order to combat abuses across sectors and industries.  A company that prides itself on its social awareness and concern for both its employees and the...

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Meet the GSN Employment & Prosperity Platform Curators

Janet Longmore

Janet Longmore

CEO, Digital Opportunity Trust

Mitul Desai

Director, Research Partnerships, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

Richard Swart

Global Crowdfunding & Alternative Finance Research | Strategic Adviser

Mike Dover

mike@gsnetworks.org
Global Solution Networks

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Anne Patterson

Digital Opportunity Trust

Jill Rundle

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Global Solution Networks