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LATEST FROM AFGHANISTAN: An Open Data Catalog For The Afghanistan Election
The National Democratic Institute’s launch of a dedicated open data catalog around recent elections in Afghanistan shows how open data is starting to be implicitly integrated into USAID programs operating on the ground abroad. The site provides maps,raw data, KML,…
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LATEST FROM SENEGAL: World’s Biggest Tree-Planting Project
The mangrove tree is quite simply an ecological superhero. It not only makes up highly productive ecosystems in tropical and sub-tropical tidal zones, but it serves as a vital renewable natural resource. It’s a natural habitat for fauna and…
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LATEST FROM SOUTH AFRICA: The Vuvuzela Lamp
The ‘vuvuzela lamp’ by designer John Edwards for South African company Weylandts, is a lighting unit influenced by the iconic noisemakers from this year’s South Africa World Cup – The Vuvuzela. The lamps are made from laminated klaat and…
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LATEST FROM SERBIA: Innovative New Way To Prevent Suicides
In Serbia, 1500 people take their own lives every year, 40 jumping from Belgrade bridges. The Suicide Prevention Office of Serbia decided that something had to be done.
They approached McCann Erickson’s Serbian office, and asked them…
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LATEST FROM KENYA: Students Are Skating Across Kenya To Raise Awareness
Two UBC Sauder School of Business alumni, Les Robertson (MBA 2010) and Rob Foxall (BComm 2010), have launched the Skate4Kenya Initiative to raise awareness and funds for the Sauder Africa Initiative: Social Entrepreneurship 101 (SE101) and the goal of creating a center…
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FROM CHINA: China Develops The World’s First Solar Powered Air Conditioning Unit
Developed by a company called Shandong Vicot Air Conditioning Co., Ltd, the solar powered air-con unit could save companies and homeowners not only masses of money but also reduce their carbon emissions, something that is essential in China which…
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THE LIFEPLAYER: MP3 Enabled Radio For The Developing World
The Lifeplayer is a unique solar-powered technology, that bridges Internet, cellular, media player and radio technologies and can deliver on-demand educational programming for the people who may otherwise have no access to such technology. By providing individuals, families and communities…
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FROM INDIA: ‘Sowing Seeds’, International Artist Village Residency
“Sowing Seeds” is a project that intends to create dialogues and exchanges amongst artists beyond their national identity and serves as an opportunity for rural artists to meet, share and exchange ideas, visions, and diverse views in order to create…
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FROM KENYA: Kenyan Scientists Develop A Malaria Prediction Tool
KEMRI has just launched a new climate based early malaria epidemic prediction tool that will consign the sudden outbreak of the disease in East Africa to the past. The tool can predict an outbreak of malaria, 90 days in advance.…
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KHABAR LAHRIYA: A Rural Newspaper
Khabar Lahariya – Bundeli for ‘News Waves’ – is a weekly rural newspaper written, edited, illustrated, produced and marketed by a group of women – most of them from marginalised Dalit, Kol and Muslim communities – in Chitrakoot and Banda districts…
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MOVIRTU: Mobile Phone Service For Rural Users Without A Handset
Movirtu‘s MXShare service enables people who cannot afford a phone or SIM card to own a virtual “Cloud Phone” account with their own telephone number. Once launched by a local operator, people subscribe to the service by visiting their local…
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BOI GARI: Mobile Library Run By Kids
In a unique initiative, children in Kolkata, are distributing books free of cost to children residing in rural areas to help educate them, and inculcate the reading habit in them.
Surojit Das, Shintu Das, Subha Das, Ayush Chettri and…