Africa

Lighting Malawi: Malawi Solar Lights Project
Environment

Lighting Malawi: Malawi Solar Lights Project

Only 7% of people in Malawi have access to electricity. Without access to electricity, households in these communities spend 20-25% of their monthly…
SIX
25 February 2015
Learn More
CIVICUS International Civil Society Week
Citizen Participation

CIVICUS International Civil Society Week

This blog post is written by Tevfik Başak Ersen and was originally published on Alliance Magazine.CIVICUS and its partners organized International…
8 January 2015Tevfik Başak Ersen for Alliance Magazine
Learn More
The Nominet Trust 100
Climate change

The Nominet Trust 100

Celebrating the world’s most inspiring digital social innovationsDigital technology has already transformed how we communicate, how we work and ho…
12 December 2014The Nominet Trust
Learn More
Reimaginging Relationships: Suggested Reading
Citizen Participation

Reimaginging Relationships: Suggested Reading

We suggested the following blogs and articles to participants before the event to help them think about what it means to reimagine relationships. 1.…
SIX
26 November 2014
Learn More
Reimagining relationships - Collaborating to change systems
Johannesburg, 2014

Reimagining relationships - Collaborating to change systems

26-27 November 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa. The challenge At the time of the event we lived (and still do) in a time of complex soci…
Events
Learn More
Fighting Ebola: A Grand Challenge For Development
Article

Fighting Ebola: A Grand Challenge For Development

USAID is partnering with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionand the United State…
3 November 2014USAID
Learn More
Technology-based mobile health takes off in developing countries
Health

Technology-based mobile health takes off in developing countries

This article was originally published in the Guardian.Soon opticians – and even their assistants – will be able to check people's vision using j…
22 July 2014Elisabeth Braw
Learn More
UTILIT-EASERS: How utilitarian brands are easing the strain of everyday life in Africa
Article

UTILIT-EASERS: How utilitarian brands are easing the strain of everyday life in Africa

Many Africans have had enough! Rising numbers are unwilling to accept unreliable utilities and lack of basic infrastructure. Africans, like their gl…
30 June 2014Trendwatching
Learn More
100 Tech Hubs Across Africa: Where are the new innovation hotspots?
Finance

100 Tech Hubs Across Africa: Where are the new innovation hotspots?

AfriLabs, the pan-African network of tech & innovation hubs, presently convenes for their second annual congress in Berlin (also see an article…
2 May 2014Tim Kelly for Venture Capital for Africa
Learn More
MASS Design: Beyond the building
➤
Design

MASS Design: Beyond the building

MASS Design Group began in 2008 during the design and building of the Butaro District Hospital in Rwanda; a project of Partners In Health and the Rw…
Watch
16 February 2014MASS Design Group
Learn More

Pages