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Seeds, Soil and SMS: How Mobiles Promote Resilience Among Small-Scale Farmers...
Despite producing more than 70% of the world’s food, most small-scale farmers live on less than $1 a day. Typically, they lack access to finance, traditional markets and much-needed agricultural...
View ArticlePlaying technology catchup: What conservation might learn from human development
In 2007 a student ecologist walked out across the African savannah, armed with a clipboard and a ballpoint pen. They were off to record evidence of the presence of different grazers in the landscape....
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Kill Or Cure? How Mobile Phones Help Weed Out Counterfeit Drugs
A New York Times Op-Ed last year highlighted the global disparity in access to quality medication. For people in developing countries, counterfeit drugs are a huge problem. In fact, a more recent...
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Cell Coverage: Reaching Pakistan’s Children with the Polio Vaccine
Pakistan is one of only two remaining polio-endemic countries, and extinguishing the virus from every remote region is a considerable challenge. Vaccinators, risking attacks from militants, have to...
View ArticleChallenging conventional wisdom in social innovation
There are no shortage of books on social entrepreneurship and innovation, but are they the books young people need? Do we have the right balance between theory and practice, or mechanics and...
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Solar Power: A Winter Journey
Solar power has long been touted as an answer to the energy needs of rural communities living off-grid across the developing world. Over recent years the technology has advanced rapidly in terms of...
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Everyday Problems: Are You Paying Attention?
You shouldn’t need anyone to tell you that there were refugees long before the Syrian crisis brought their horror further into the public consciousness. There was famine before recent announcements of...
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Photo Update: How Technology is Reaching Pakistan’s Children with the Polio...
In our February story – Cell Coverage: Reaching Pakistan’s Children with the Polio Vaccine – Aziz Memon wrote about Rotary‘s work to replace traditional paper reporting of polio, maternal and newborn...
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Innovating to Fight Epidemics: Latest Ideas from TEDMED
At a time where emerging and rapidly spreading infections such as the Ebola and Zika viruses have been dominating conversations in global health, this is a defining moment for innovators – and new and...
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For some people, not being able to prove who you are can be a matter of life...
Here’s a scenario many of you are likely familiar with. You decide to buy yourself a new mobile phone, so pop down to your friendly mobile phone shop in downtown Washington DC for a browse. After...
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