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November 16, 2017

The biomedical smart jacket that diagnoses pneumonia using Bluetooth

Getting a pneumonia diagnosis wrong can be fatal. Ugandan inventor Brian Turyabagye, knows all too well. He has created a biomedical jacket known as Mama-Ope, that’s four times faster at diagnosing pneumonia than a doctor. The problem is particularly acute with infants. According to UNICEF, pneumonia kills half a million children under five each year in sub-Saharan […]

November 13, 2017

The Innovation Paradox : Developing-Country Capabilities and the Unrealized Promise of Technological Catch-Up

Economists have long argued that developing countries have the potential for high productivity growth if they adopt existing technologies and apply them to the local context. The report brings to bear a battery of new data sources to explore the innovation “paradox”: despite the potential for very high returns, developing countries invest far less in […]

November 6, 2017

Strengthening the pathways to success: The global challenge of learning

One cannot deny that we are at an impasse. Globally, countries are trying to fix the gap between education systems and labour markets. How do we improve learning as work transforms? This question is even more urgent in Africa where the challenges of improving access and quality of education are met with serious budget constraints […]

November 6, 2017

Girls’ education is the best investment we can make to grow the world’s economies

If you ask most people if they believe girls should go to school, they’ll answer yes. I would guess that most of you reading this right now are offended by the idea of a world where girls are still unequal to boys in education and opportunity. Yet this is the reality for 130 million girls […]

November 6, 2017

Local doctor gives brighter future to kids in Africa-Changing lives through education

Meet Dr. Peter Nalos, saving millions of lives in Ethiopia, through surgery at the Bakersfield Heart Hospital surgery and changing lives through education in his spare time. It all started on a journey to one of his favorite places on earth-Africa, where animals roam free, where mother nature always puts on a show. Dr. Peter saw a […]

November 6, 2017

SILICON LAGOON: AFRICA’S TECH REVOLUTION HEADS WEST

Across the street from a church and in front of a dilapidated school is a grimy, sand-colored building that looks like any other here in Lagos, a prominent Nigerian port city. But inside is something far from ordinary: the center of West Africa’s burgeoning tech scene. On the walls, posters preach disruption: “Move fast and break […]

November 2, 2017

“The age of business focus, solely on profits is over” UNLEASHing a global hub for disruptive solutions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals

The past days at UNLEASH Innovation Program, were truly mind blowing! Last month, I was honored to be selected from over 10,000 applicants from 165+ countries to participate in an innovation lab to develop innovative and scalable solutions that address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in collaboration with other talents, companies, research institutions, […]

November 1, 2017

Zim engineer publishes science textbooks for SA high school syllabuses

Beginning of this week, Zimbabwean engineer Admire Mugwinyi, and founder of Awake Unto Righteousness International Ministries, published science textbooks, that simplify concepts and make Physical Sciences easy to understand. Mugwinyi, who studied Bio-resources Engineering, is an experienced teacher. He compiled and published three Physical Sciences textbooks for South Africa’s Grades 10, 11 and 12 (Form […]

October 31, 2017

Rebuilding Malawi through Science and Technology

Professor Joey Ocon, one of the promising and young scientists who currently teaches and do researches at the University of the Philippines Diliman’s Department of Chemical Engineering, shared that there can be possible scientific works that will aid Malawi in it recovery phase. Rwanda’s former minister of science and technology, Romain Murenzi, recalled how science and technology […]

October 31, 2017

The peer review system has flaws. But it’s still a barrier to bad science

Brenda Wingfield, Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DST-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor of Genetics, University of Pretoria writes in the conversation that, the peer review system has received a fair amount of negative press in recent years. It has been criticized largely because it is not particularly transparent and depends […]