Doctors developing smartphone apps that will help determine cause of death in under-resourced communities.  

Part II.  

AOL ad campaign from 2008.  

Dave Meslin shows ways to counter apathy towards civic engagement. 

A transmedia narrative courtesy of Intel.  

A Teach for America spin-off that encourages young programmers to use their skills to help governments work better.  Some of the featured apps/projects are education related.  I like the idea of supporting people who want to innovate but may not have the resources and/or inclination to go it alone.  

From the article: "Music technology in some ways appears to have been on a trajectory in which the end result is that it will destroy and devalue itself. It will succeed completely when it self-destructs. The technology is useful and convenient, but it has, in the end, reduced its own value and increased the value of the things it has never been able to capture or reproduce."