--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 10 description: Community policing for El Salvador's gang crime, tracking Ebola w/mobile phone data, highrises for the homeless & Malala's big idea. canonical: https://time.com/3490246/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-10/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-10T16:01:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:07:29.014Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: Learn about: community policing in El Salvador, tracking Ebola with phone data, fighting fake news and Malala's big idea. og:url: https://time.com/3490246/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-10/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas twitter:description: Learn about: community policing in El Salvador, tracking Ebola with phone data, fighting fake news and Malala's big idea. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 10 by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 10, 2014 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 10, 2014 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**With U.S. support, El Salvador is using community policing to address skyrocketing gang crime.**](http://fronterasdesk.org/content/9802/el-salvador-tries-rein-crime-community-policing) By Jude Joffe-Block in Fronteras **2\.** [**A new tool designed to flag bogus stories online might help combat rampant misinformation.**](http://www.cjr.org/behind%5Fthe%5Fnews/corrections%5Fdont%5Fgo%5Fviral.php) By Alexis Sobel Fitts in the Columbia Journalism Review **3\.** [**A multimillion dollar new high rise in Los Angeles exclusively for the city’s sick and vulnerable homeless residents reflects a powerful truth: we can’t ignore poverty away.**](http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-innovative-homeless-housing-20141008-story.html) By Gale Holland in the Los Angeles Times **4\.** [**The CDC is using mobile phone data to track and stop Ebola in West Africa.**](http://www.nextgov.com/mobile/2014/10/cdc-tracks-cell-phone-location-data-halt-ebola/96239/) By Aliya Sternstein in NextGov **5\.** [**“Education is the most important right. When we get education, then we can bring change in our society.”**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPty-kAobk0) By Malala Yousafzai addressing the Aspen Ideas Festival  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3490246/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-10/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3490246/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-10/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 10","datePublished":"2014-10-10T16:01:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:29.014Z","description":"Community policing for El Salvador's gang crime, tracking Ebola w/mobile phone data, highrises for the homeless & Malala's big idea.","url":"https://time.com/3490246/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-10/","keywords":["Innovation","Pakistan","Africa","Education","girls","los angeles","Immigration","News","CDC","El Salvador","ebola","Malala Yousafzai","homeless","Malala","mobile phones","border"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3490246/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-10/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 10"}}]}] ```