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And ensuring that every parent everywhere has the opportunity to raise safe, educated, healthy kids makes it less likely that they will embark on desperate journeys to seek better lives elsewhere. There is nothing about putting your country first that requires turning your back on the rest of the world.
If anything, the opposite is true. In , governments will need to recommit to funding for the Global Fund, one of the biggest health efforts in the world. And Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, will need to raise money in Since , Gavi has provided basic vaccines to more than million children. To me these results are astonishing. That would be a disaster. Without it, they will die. Even if you only care about the welfare of your fellow citizens, these investments are overwhelmingly smart things to do.
Progress benefits everyone. Last year we organized a toilet fair in Beijing, where I got to check out a number of next-gen toilets in person and even shared the stage with a beaker of human feces. Several companies are business-ready. So what does the next generation of toilets look like? At first glance, not that different. The real magic happens out of sight. Many of them even turn human feces and urine into useful byproducts, like fertilizer for crops and water for handwashing.
They might not be the sexiest innovations in the world, but the toilets of the future will save millions of lives. Bill and I have both met women who have suffered kidney damage from holding in urine all night to avoid a risky trip to dangerous public facilities.
When you learn just how entrenched stigma around periods still is in many places, you can start to understand why someone would rather fall behind on her studies or miss wages than risk humiliation. But now, thanks to software, the standalone textbook is becoming a thing of the past.
All of this is a complement to what teachers do, not a replacement. Your teacher gets a rich report showing what you read and watched, which problems you got right and wrong, and the areas where you need more help. When you come to class the next day, she is equipped with a ton of specific information and suggestions to help her make the most of her time with you.
When I told you about this type of software in previous letters, it was mostly speculative. But now I can report that these tools have been adopted in thousands of U.
Zearn, i-Ready, and LearnZillion are examples of digital curricula used by students and teachers throughout the U.
More than 3, schools are teaching a free digital course that I fund called Big History , which uses software to give students immediate feedback on their writing assignments.
The same basic cycle you go through for all software: Get lots of feedback on the existing products, collect data on what works, and make them better. This cycle is picking up steam as more states and districts gain confidence about using digital curricula in their schools.
I hope this growing momentum will inspire more of the big textbook publishers, which have been slow to offer these kinds of tools. In , the typical college student is no longer the stereotypical student who lives in a dorm and graduates in four years after a few spring breaks somewhere warm. Digital learning tools can help students meet these challenges—by making college more affordable, more convenient, and more effective.
Another found that students who used digital learning tools for introductory classes got better grades than students who learned in the traditional way.
And, of course, those students had a lot more flexibility. Not having to show up to a physical classroom at a specific time makes a big difference to students who are balancing school with working and raising a family.
Put it all together, and you have students spending less for more convenient classes in which they perform better. In other words, women are not only using their mobile phones to access services and opportunities.
Ketteline Pierre, a high school student in Haiti, texts her friends. The catch is that the gender gap in both mobile phone ownership and mobile internet use remains significant. A recent study of ten countries across Africa, Asia, and South America found that—regardless of their age, education, wealth, or location—women are almost 40 percent less likely than men to have used the internet.
There are a lot of reasons why this gap exists. Cost, literacy both digital and otherwise , and social norms are three of the big ones. In response, mobile phone companies who are eager to tap into this market are creating business strategies that target women customers. In Kenya and Nigeria, gender and development programs are putting new focus on teaching women digital literacy skills. Her situation became even more untenable after she had to flee an abusive husband.
Today, Nikmah is one of more than a million Indonesians making a living through Go-Jek, a popular mobile platform for rides, food deliveries, and other services. The app connects her to a steady stream of customers and income, and she is paid through a mobile bank account, so she has total control over the money she earns.
She can now afford to provide for her children without having to depend on a man who mistreats her. Discussing the power of mobile technology with women who drive for GO-JEK, a technology platform providing transportation and other on-demand services in Indonesia. We get asked a lot these days whether we're still optimistic about the future. We say: Absolutely. One reason is that we believe in the power of innovation. But an even bigger reason is that we've seen firsthand that for every challenge we've written about in this letter, there are people devoting their ideas, their resources, and even their lives to solving them.
When we're feeling overwhelmed by negative headlines, we remind ourselves that none of us has the right to sit back and expect that the world is going to keep getting better. We have a responsibility to do everything we can to push it in that direction.
In that way, we've found that optimism can be a powerful call to action. And it has a multiplier effect: The more optimists there are working for a better future, the more reasons there are to be optimistic. Log in. Sign up. Log out. My profile and settings. Please complete your account verification. Resend verification email. This verification token has expired. Your email address has been verified. Update my profile. Your account has been deactivated.
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