The Rockefeller Foundation to Host Annual 'Innovation Forum' to Explore How the Benefits of New Technologies Can Positively Impact the World's Poor

The Rockefeller Foundation to Host Annual 'Innovation Forum' to Explore How the Benefits of New Technologies Can Positively Impact the World's Poor PR Newswire NEW YORK, June 25, 2012 - Program to Honor Global Innovators and Commit Resources to Problem Solving NEW YORK, June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rockefeller Foundation, celebrating 100 years of global innovation, announces that it will be hosting its annual Innovation Forum tomorrow in New York City as part of its Centennial initiative honoring its 100-year-old mission to promote the well-being of humanity. The Forum will focus on one of today's most pressing issues – how to ensure that the benefits of new technologies do not bypass the world's poor. The Foundation will seek to address this issue by showcasing some of the latest cutting-edge technologies and inviting participants to become innovators by imagining how these technologies might benefit people around the world. The Foundation will then leverage ideas and recommendations explored at the Forum to search for new ways of ensuring rapid advancements in technology to help the world's most vulnerable. The annual Rockefeller Foundation Innovation Forum convenes some of the most creative and inventive minds from the worlds of business, government, civil society and journalism to bring innovation to bear on urgent challenges facing poor or vulnerable people around the world.