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June 15, 2015

The Innovators: The Biotech Firm Hoping To Breed An End To Dengue Fever

When the taps ran dry in São Paulo neighbourhoods during a drought earlier this year, residents took to storing water in pots and tanks in their homes. The resultant surge in the mosquito population led to the tripling in dengue fever cases across Brazil. The 500,000 Brazilians who caught the disease – the effects of […]

June 15, 2015

The 31 Year-Old Entrepreneur Who Is Challenging PayPal In Kenya

Danson Muchemi, 31, is the founder of JamboPay, Kenya’s leading Online Payment Gateway. JamboPay, which was founded in 2009, now has more than 1,500 institutional clients and processes more than $50 million in payments every year. The company has a presence in Kenya, Tanzania and Senegal and is expanding to 4 additional countries before the […]

June 15, 2015

Africa developing its first supercomputer outside South Africa

“Outside of South Africa, there is little to no capacity for cloud computing on the continent,” wrote Erik Hersman on his blog, White African. “This means that few of the programmers in this region have the skill sets necessary to work and build out this infrastructure. We have a severely limited foundation on which to build future services in […]

June 15, 2015

Scientists In Kenya Find Oldest Known Tools On Earth.

A team of scientists working in Kenya says it has unearthed the oldest tools ever discovered, dating back 3.3 million years ago. The stone flake tools are 700,000 years older than the earliest known stone tools, predating modern humans by 500,000 years and “suggesting that our ancestors were crafting tools several hundred thousand years before our genus Homo arrived […]

June 15, 2015

Why Do So Few Women Work in New York (And So Many in Minneapolis)? Labor Supply of Married Women across U.S. Cities

Abstract: This paper documents a little-noticed feature of U.S. labor markets — very large variation in the labor supply of married women across cities. We focus on cross-city differences in commuting times as a potential explanation for this variation. We start with a model in which commuting times introduce non-convexities into the budget set. Empirical […]

June 2, 2015

Reversing Africa’s Medical Brain Drain

OXFORD – There is understandable consternation over Uganda’s plan to send almost 300 health workers to Trinidad and Tobago. The plan reportedly includes four of Uganda’s 11 registered psychiatrists, 20 of its 28 radiologists, and 15 of its 92 pediatricians. In return, the Caribbean country (which has a doctor-to-patient ratio 12 times higher than Uganda’s) […]

June 2, 2015

So People Hate Maths? Here’s my plan to make it work for them: Marcus du Sautoy

The Labour party has made a commitment to ensure that every young person studies mathematics up to the age of 18. Of course, the people it will affect don’t have the vote – although if it was up to Labour they would: to give 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote is one of their […]

June 2, 2015

Scientists in Kenya Believe They’ve Just Found the Oldest Tools Ever Discovered

June 2, 2015

One Doctor’s Quest to Save the World With Data

IN RWANDA, PEOPLE have to deal with all kinds of threats to their health: malaria, HIV/AIDS, severe diarrhea. But in late 2012, Agnes Binagwaho, Rwanda’s Minister of Health, realized her country’s key health enemy was something far more innocuous. The thing causing the most harm to her people, the leading risk factor for premature death […]

June 2, 2015

Microsoft Aims To Stimulate Nigeria’s Job Market

Microsoft has recently partnered with job search website and Jobberman to create an employability platform. Olayinka Oni, national technology officer for Microsoft Nigeria, told CNBC Africa that they have the opportunity to access 1.5 million users on the Jobberman portal. “We target a lot of digital literacy, we have something called the Microsoft Virtual Academy… […]