--- description: Bypassing government censorship in Hong Kong, investing in Early Childhood Development, Pakistan's lessons for Turkey, and building on NATO. 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 9 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 9, 2014 4:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 9, 2014 4:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**Like Pakistan, Turkey nurtured a militant movement next door. Will ISIS enter Turkey as the Taliban made a new home in Pakistan?**](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/pakistans-lessons-for-turkey.html "undefined") By Michael M. Tanchum and Halil M. Karaveli in New York Times **2\.** [**Look homeward: America should form a new North American partnership with Canada and Mexico to tackle global challenges.**](http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/10/08/don-forget-canada-and-mexico/ZqNj5PPYj1wFIRgpfK2diO/story.html "undefined") By Nicholas Burns in the Boston Globe **3\.** [**Protestors in Hong Kong and around the world can bypass government censorship with “mesh networks.”**](http://theconversation.com/mesh-networks-and-firechat-make-switching-off-the-internet-that-much-harder-32588 "undefined") By Gareth Tyson in the Conversation **4\.** [**Early childhood development can dramatically change a child’s life and future. Massively scaling up investment in youth could close the income and skills gaps, and accomplish much more.**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qmkxytBeDs&list=PLrI3Iy0dqgpRBxKMJ6qDAMh5guCZa9E2w "undefined") By the Brookings Institution **5\.** [**Rural America has the nation’s fastest rising child poverty rate. To overcome it, we must confront the weaknesses in our economic recovery.**](http://rufes.org/2014/10/06/rural-child-poverty/ "undefined") By the Rural Family Economic Success Action Network  [_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/3485143/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-9/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3485143/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-9/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 9","datePublished":"2014-10-09T16:01:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:30.222Z","description":"Bypassing government censorship in Hong Kong, investing in Early Childhood Development, Pakistan's lessons for Turkey, and building on NATO.","url":"https://time.com/3485143/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-9/","keywords":["Innovation","Military","Pakistan","Syria","poverty","U.S.","Immigration","Mexico","Turkey","protests","Censorship","NATO"],"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/3485143/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-9/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 9"}}]}] ```