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Building BRCK: The Story Behind Ushahidi’s Mobile Internet Router
Why do we rely on equipment made for Berlin, Orlando and Tokyo when the conditions we have in Nairobi, Lagos or New Delhi are completely different? Read More »
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Building Local Skills To Support The Open Source iHRIS Software
Over 20 countries are implementing the open source iHRIS software to manage and plan their health workforce. CapacityPlus, along with other USAID projects led by IntraHealth International, is assisting several of these countries to install, customize, and roll out the human resources information systems (HRIS) software. Read More »
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By 2050, Superbugs Will Kill 10 Million People A Year
A scourge is emerging across the rich and poor worlds alike, one that will claim 10 million lives a year by mid-century. Watch out for the “superbugs”—pathogens that even antibiotics can’t kill...
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Campaign To Reinforce Southern Voice In Research
An initiative has been launched to break the dominance of Northern agendas and practices in development debates and policy, and to increase the impact of Southern research on global development discussions. Read More »
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Can Africa’s Mobile Phones And Maps Usher In A Governance Revolution?
For crime victims in the Kenyan town of Lamet Umoja, where before there was silence, now there is Twitter. Read More »
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Chronology Of Ebola Virus Disease Outbreaks, 1976-2014
The blog post Ebola virus disease outbreak, West Africa, 2014 was devoted to present the current situation of the outbreak of Ebola virus that is currently taking place in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Some readers requested additional information about the number of outbreaks of Ebola virus disease in history and affected countries, so I decided to visualized the chronology of Ebola outbreaks. Read More »
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Close To Thirty Institutions Receive Certificates At Berlin10 Open Access Conference
The Berlin10 Open Access Conference drew to a close on Thursday (8 November) when certificates were handed to 28 African institutions that had signed the Berlin Declaration.
By signing the Declaration, signatories commit themselves to promoting and following the principles of the open access movement. Read More »
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Cloud, Social, Big Data And Mobile Technology Reshapes One African City
As one of Africa's fastest urbanizing cities, Accra, Ghana needs to recognize the challenges it faces as it continues to grow. Read More »
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Coffee Farmers to Receive Warnings on Storms Via Texts
More than 7500 coffee farmers in Kenya could start receiving message prompts with warnings on storms and plagues by the end of the year, says IICD. The automated SMS system that connects farmers mobile phones to a central computer is expected to enable farmers around Nairobi and Mount Kenya receive the messages on the phones through an early SMS warning system. Read More »
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Could A Floating Nuclear Power Plant Prevent Another Fukushima?
MIT scientists argue that nukes can be tsunami-proofed by towing them out to to sea.
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Digitizing Maps Of Malaria Hotspots To Save Lives
Mapping collaboration between Europe and Africa has led to the creation of a digitized malaria mapping database that for the first time brings together all available malaria data, helping tackle a disease that kills more than 660,000 people every year.
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Drones and the Future of Disaster Response
Four continental states and one U.S. territory took a beating this fall as one natural disaster after another rocked communities in Northern California and along the Gulf Coast, spreading disaster relief resources and personnel thin as federal, state, and local governments scrabbled to address the crises. Wildfires in California's wine country claimed at least 42 lives, 8,400 structures, and 245,000 acres of land in October. Hurricanes Harvey and Irma pummeled Louisiana, Texas, and Florida only to be followed by Hurricane Maria, which slammed Puerto Rico on September 20 and left much of the U.S. territory without communications systems, electricity, clean water, or functioning hospitals....
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Ebola In Africa: A product Of history, Not A Natural Phenomenon
Modern African history teaches, often tragically, the need to distinguish between what might be called natural phenomena from those that are essentially socio-economic-political...The same lesson is being taught, again, tragically, by the continent’s latest scourge...
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Ending Poverty: There's an Open Source App for That!
Rural Africa presents changemakers with intractable challenges across sectors, but one American investor, Grameen Foundation, believes it all comes down to access to information. Grameen Foundation has invested millions to develop mobile-phone applications that leapfrog over a lack of electricity, education, and income. Building on their legacy of leading-edge ideas, Grameen Foundation has evolved from funding microfinance to designing disruptive solutions to the kind of poverty that's most challenging to reach, in remote rural areas, and to the poorest of the poor. Since more people have access to cell phones than toilets in Africa, Grameen Foundation brings increased agricultural productivity, access to prenatal and infant healthcare, and a portfolio of financial services, to the poor--right into the palm of their hands.
Feeding A Disease With Fake Drugs
Thanks to billions of dollars spent on diagnosis and treatment [for tuberculosis] over the past decade, deaths and infections are slowly declining. Yet a disturbing phenomenon has emerged that could not only reverse any gains we’ve made, but also encourage the spread of a newly resistant form of the disease. Read More »
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