Adarsh Desai, the head of the World Bank Group's Innovation Labs, joins us to discuss innovation and international development on this episode of the podcast. Among the topics we cover are how the Innovation Labs are working to help the World Bank meet its goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030, how they are using big data and open data to fuel that mission, and why innovation and social entrepreneurship at the local level are more critical now than ever before.

As the head of the World Bank Group's Innovation Labs, Adarsh oversees a variety of programs, ranging from innovations in Big Data Analytics and Social Enterprise to the Open Aid Partnership and Human Centered Design. He is passionate about leveraging technology and data-driven innovations for international development and has managed programs on big data analytics, ICT-enabled citizen engagement, Open Innovations, Geospatial data, eLearning and other technology enabled platforms.

Show Notes

• Follow Adarsh Desai on Twitter: http://twitter.com/adarshdesai
• Read Adarsh Desai's latest blog posts on the World Bank's website: http://blogs.worldbank.org/team/adarsh-desai