--- description: The women who run Rwanda, stopping Ebola with checklists, college savings accounts in kindergarten and #Bitcoin for journalism. title: These Are Today's Best Ideas 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: October 8 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 8, 2014 4:57 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 8, 2014 4:57 PM CUT **1\.** [**Quotas can cause lasting change. Rwanda’s new parliament is more than 60% female.**](http://www.thisisafricaonline.com/Analysis/The-women-running-Rwanda "undefined") By Eleanor Whitehead in This Is Africa **2\.** [**With open communication and smart procedures, we can contain Ebola.**](http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/ebola-epidemic-stoppable "undefined") By Atul Gawande in The New Yorker **3\.** [**A simple plan to begin saving for college at kindergarten helps families thrive.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/opinion/this-little-piggy-went-to-college.html "undefined") By Andrea Levere in the New York Times **4\.** [**Teach For America is sewing seeds for education reform in unlikely places – by design.**](http://nextcity.org/forefront/view/teach-for-americas-soft-power-education-reform-strategy "undefined") By Jackie Mader in Next City **5\.** [**How Bitcoin could save journalism and the arts.**](http://time.com/3476313/can-bitcoin-save-journalism/ "undefined") By Walter Isaacson 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/3481864/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-8/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3481864/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-8/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 8","datePublished":"2014-10-08T16:57:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:31.292Z","description":"The women who run Rwanda, stopping Ebola with checklists, college savings accounts in kindergarten and #Bitcoin for journalism.","url":"https://time.com/3481864/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-8/","keywords":["Innovation","women","Bitcoin","Mississippi","Journalism","Rwanda","ebola"],"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/3481864/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-8/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 8"}}]}] ```