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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation

Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines. Simply put, social change requires social collaboration. The task at hand goes beyond the academic concept of interdisciplinarity , which is often used as a semantic shortcut to signify broader collaborations across professional and social boundaries.

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Taking a Virtual Trip to the Last Mile: How an Innovative Program is Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance Progress Toward the SDGs

James Militzer

As media policy academic Inge Sorensen writes , “VR offers unprecedented immersive and affective ways of engaging with documentary subjects and stories and enables enhanced experiences of and insights into otherwise inaccessible worlds, lives and realities.” . Leveraging Virtual Reality to Advance the SDGs.

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Keys to Unlocking an Inclusive and Just Tech Future

Stanford Social Innovation

Our project has consisted of hosting an experiential learning course, one-on-one interviews and focus groups, surveys, student seminars, writing workshops, and system testing. Yet, the knowledge, voices, and expertise of those communities are often excluded from the design, development, and use of technology.