Report provides a roadmap for food security and agricultural investment, revealing 15 high- and low-tech solutions that are helping to reduce hunger and poverty in Africa New York, New York (12 January 2011)–Worldwatch Institute today released its report State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet, which spotlights successful agricultural innovations...
Monthly Archives: January 2011
“These papers offer important lessons that can help to guide Africa and its international partners to complement 20th century policies on access to essential medicines and technology with 21st century approaches that focus on building health innovation systems. Those who take this route will find these papers highly valuable and timely.” Go to Source ...
To make an impact, science and technology must embrace Africa’s informal system of making and trading, argues Steve Daniels. For half a century, science and technology (S&T) have promised to bring prosperity to Sub-Saharan Africa, but little progress has been made. This is in part because the African way of making and trading is largely informal, and Western...
15inno.com (January 11, 2011) – The more Stefan Lindegaard works on the intersection of social media tools and open innovation, it becomes clearer that companies need a multi-target approach on efforts in this intersection. One reason is that most open innovation efforts lie in three different circles. There is often a significant overlap, but we still need to look...
No doubt about it: Technology has changed the way knowledge work gets done. But have you changed your work habits enough to get the most from information technology? MIT Sloan Professor Erik Brynjolfsson Researchers Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Marshall Van Alstyne have been studying information worker productivity for a number of years. (See, for example, “What...
