--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 18 description: How the international community can tackle cancer in the developing world, an app for kids to report cyberbullying anonymously and more. canonical: https://time.com/3713275/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-18/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-18T17:01:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:05:34.597Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: How the international community can tackle cancer in the developing world, an app for kids to report cyberbullying anonymously and more. og:url: https://time.com/3713275/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-18/ 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: How the international community can tackle cancer in the developing world, an app for kids to report cyberbullying anonymously and more. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 18 > Sponsored content. 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Shulman in Policy Innovations **2\.** [**Finally, an app for kids to anonymously report cyber-bullying.**](http://www.wired.com/2015/02/stopit/) By Issie Lapowsky in Wired **3\.** [**Indians in the U.S. sent $13 billion home last year. A new plan aims to push some of that money into social good investments in India.**](http://csisprosper.com/2015/02/13/the-indian-diaspora-investment-initiative-leveraging-remittances-for-development/) By Simone Schenkel in CSIS Prosper **4\.** [**Websites are just marketing. The next Internet is TV.**](http://www.theawl.com/2015/02/the-next-internet-is-tv) By John Herrman in The Awl **5\.** [**The U.K. may set up a digital court to settle small claims online.**](http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26989-digital-judges-to-help-settle-disputes-in-online-courts.html#.VOSb5lPF%5FYM) By Chris Baraniuk in New Scientist  [_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/3713275/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-18/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3713275/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-18/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 18","datePublished":"2015-02-18T17:01:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:05:34.597Z","description":"How the international community can tackle cancer in the developing world, an app for kids to report cyberbullying anonymously and more.","url":"https://time.com/3713275/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-18/","keywords":["Innovation","Africa","Internet","apps","India","Cancer","Courts","Mobile","Investing","uk","Websites","cyberbullying"],"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/3713275/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-18/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 18"}}]}] ```