Yesterday morning the White House hosted an open forum on innovation in global development. The discussion panel included Raj Shah (Administrator of USAID), Gayle Smith (Special Assistant to the President & Senior Director of the National Security Council), and Tom Kalil (Deputy Director for Policy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy & Senior Advisor for Science, Technology, and Innovation, National Economic Council). Questions were taken from the public via Twitter with the hashtag #WHChat and through Facebook. FHI 360 submitted four questions through Twitter, and three of them were answered by the panel (though we were not directly mentioned): 1. In which areas of development is innovation most urgently needed? The panel answered that innovation is urgently need in all sectors, but stressed […]

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