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...answer to close “the social and economic gaps between the northern and southern hemispheres, while accelerating the democratic revolution through the citizen sector in developing countries,” according to Ashoka’s website. Drayton was introduced at the Forum by Gowher Rizvi, the director of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation and a lecturer at the Kennedy School. “When you think about anyone who brought about a great change in the 20th century, one of them has to be Billy Drayton,” Rizvi said...
...Gowher Rizvi, the director of the Ash Institute, did not return repeated requests for comment this week. But in a statement last week, Rizvi called the winning initiatives—culled from an initial applicant pool of over 1,000—“ground-breaking efforts” that “[take] a creative approach to a significant problem” in bureaucracy and administration...
...Rizvi said he is canvassing Harvard’s faculty to determine what the research priorities of the institute should...
...finance the institute’s new endeavors, Rizvi will begin a fund-raising campaign for the institute—even though it is already well-funded by the Ford Foundation...
These scholars and debates, he said, will foster dialogue among the institute, outside researchers and government innovators, Rizvi said...