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March 6, 2014

Q&A: Doctoral research and economic growth in Africa

In this podcast, recorded in Johannesburg, South Africa, Adam Habib, vice-chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand, talks about the relationship between PhD research and Africa’s future social and economic development. He argues that, as developing nations become ever more dependent on knowledge-based industries, the need to have high-quality skills, innovation and outputs becomes increasingly […]

March 6, 2014

Big data from cheap phones

At a computer in her office at the Havard School of Public Health in Boston, epidemiologist Caroline Buckee points to a dot on a map of Kenya’s Western highlands representing one of the nation’s thousands of cell phone towers. In the fight against malaria, Buckee explains, the data transmitted from this tower near the town […]

March 5, 2014

Science for Humanity falters but hopes to reinvent itself

A charity set up to support development by acting as a broker between UK scientists, NGOs and developing world firms has failed to gain traction and is trying to refocus its mission by launching an online collaboration on global risk. Science for Humanity was created in 2008 with the aim of letting scientists showcase technologies — in fields such as medicine, agriculture, energy, water supply and sanitation — […]

March 4, 2014

Market forces ‘insufficient’ to roll out low-cost tech

Using market dynamics to roll out new technologies for development can bring unexpected challenges, say the developers of a low-cost innovation to treat jaundice in newborn babies, whose initial plan to let the tech ‘sell itself’ backfired. Read more: http://www.scidev.net/global/technology/news/market-forces-insufficient-to-roll-out-low-cost-tech.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=webfeed&utm_campaign=e […]

March 3, 2014

Tech can give women the space to fight for their rights

Aid agencies have ambitious goals to empower women in the developing world. Yet many feminists believe donors’ gender policies are depoliticised — that they fail to address the unequal power balances between men and women. Read more: http://www.scidev.net/global/gender/opinion/tech-can-give-women-the-space-to-fight-for-their-rights.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=webfeed&utm_campaign=en […]

February 28, 2014

How to get an extra billion people online

How do you cross the digital divide to connect the remaining one billion people to the internet? A debate at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, yesterday looked at the remaining barriers and emerging opportunities as mobile operators and phone producers pursue new customers in developing countries who are not online yet. Read more: […]

February 27, 2014

Could Africa Experience A Green Revolution? Farmers To Get Educated About Biotechnology And Modern Farming

On Saturday, The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conducted a session in Chicago speaking about the state of biosciences in Africa. African experts in the field of agricultural biotechnology held presentations highlighting the impacts of biosciences on small holder farming sectors. The African economy is on an upward trajectory, and is among […]

February 26, 2014

Malaria maps reveal that 184 million Africans still live in extremely high-risk areas despite decade of control efforts

Forty African countries showed reductions in malaria transmission between 2000-2010, but despite this progress, more than half (57 per cent) of the population in countries endemic for malaria continue to live in areas of moderate to intense transmission, with infection rates over 10 per cent. The findings are based on a series of prevalence maps […]

February 25, 2014

7 Innovative Products From Africa You Should Know

African innovation is not yet getting the level of global recognition and support it truly deserves. The continent is brimming with a rising new generation of bold, creative-thinking innovators and entrepreneurs who are constantly inventing and developing new technologies that will simplify our daily lives and transform societies- technologies with global appeal and commercial viability […]

February 24, 2014

Africa and India cultivate agricultural research ties

Africa and India are gearing up to further enhance cooperation in agricultural science, technology and innovation, and move beyond dialogue to a range of practical options from a virtual biotech platform to agribusiness centres, seed investments and even joint donor-aided project. Read more: http://www.scidev.net/global/biotechnology/feature/africa-and-india-cultivate-agricultural-research-ties.html […]