--- description: 1. Hashtag Activism Aftermath: Three months on, to bring back the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, outside groups must work past news fatigue and push... title: Here Are the 5 Best Ideas of the Day image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 11 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 11, 2014 4:37 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 11, 2014 4:37 PM CUT **1\.** [**Hashtag Activism Aftermath: Three months on, to bring back the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, outside groups must work past news fatigue and push Nigeria to make a deal**](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/07/how-to-bring-back-the-nigerian-schoolgirls-three-months-on.html "undefined") By Naunihal Singh in the New Yorker **2\.** [**The US shouldn’t let nuclear security cooperation with Russia become a casualty of the conflict over Ukraine.**](http://nationalinterest.org/feature/dont-let-nuclear-security-cooperation-russia-lapse-10799 "undefined") By Nickolas Roth and Robert Gard in the National Interest **3\.** [**Proponents and users of big data have a big responsibility.**](http://om.co/2014/07/08/with-big-data-comes-big-responsibility/ "undefined") By Om Malik at om.co **4\.** [**To save the NSA, we need to bring American spying in from the cold.**](http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-03/nsa-tech-industry-must-make-nice-to-ensure-web-security#p2 "undefined") By Carla Ann Robbins in Bloomberg Businessweek **5\.** [**From battling wildfires to delivering humanitarian aid, the good done by drones can temper — but not erase — the ugly reality of remote-controlled warfare.**](http://time.com/2970027/drones-pr-problem/ "undefined") By Medea Benjamin in TIME  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2977067/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-11/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2977067/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-11/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 11","datePublished":"2014-07-11T16:37:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:43:08.980Z","description":"1. Hashtag Activism Aftermath: Three months on, to bring back the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, outside groups must work past news fatigue and push...","url":"https://time.com/2977067/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-11/","keywords":["Innovation"],"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/2977067/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-11/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 11"}}]}] ```