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Working on Tibet’s Future, From India
In a spacious classroom in this northern Indian hill town, 20 young Tibetan men and women sit in front of computers as the summer monsoon rains fall outside.
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- Education, Technology
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- South Asia
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A Stove That Cooks With Molten Salt
Using the sun instead of fuel to cook is an important innovation for the developing world, where fuel is scarce and fumes from burning can be deadly. This stove doesn’t just use the sun--it uses the sun to heat up salt until it melts.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Students need to be challenged on social innovation, says Microsoft
“Instead of standardized teaching, our schools and our educators need to teach innovation” – Microsoft Malta
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Technology
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Literacy Bridge Uses Talking Books to Spread the Word in Ghana
On a warm spring evening in 2006, software consultant Cliff Schmidt decided to take a walk near the hotel where he was staying for a conference in Atlanta, not yet knowing that what he would stumble upon would alter his life's path.
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Small traders can track sales and customer trends
THE PRINCIPAL salesman of any enterprise is the business owner. This is simply the hard lesson that many small and micro enterprise (SME) owners learn over time.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Investments in online edu to improve access, enhance skills
The country needs to bet big on investments in online education, making it available to those struggling and aspiring for higher achievements, said S Ramadorai, vice chairman, Tata Consultancy Services, and advisor to the Prime Minister in the National Skill Development Council (NSDC).
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- Education, Technology
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In Kenya, Using Tech To Put An ‘Invisible’ Slum On The Map
If you were to do a search for the Nairobi city slum of Mathare on Google Maps, you'd find little more than gray spaces between unmarked roads.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tanzania’s Controversial Mobile Phone Tax Could Grow Revenues, At The Expense Of The Poor
A controversial new tax policy in the East African country of Tanzania could have an outsized effect on its low-income citizens -- the very people the tax revenues are intended to benefit.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa