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Medicine at the Margins

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:30:16 +0000

Sania Nishtar is the founder and president of NGO and think tank Heartfile a Rockefeller Foundation grantee. She was the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Innovation Forum award for her leadership in health policy in Pakistan.
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Africa’s Quest for Prosperity

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:49:07 +0000

“It is projected that Africa will have up to 240m mobile broadband connections by 2015. However, the economic gains will only be efficiently realised through regionally harmonised spectrum allocation. Such regional growth dynamics will also be realised in other areas of infrastructure investment such as energy, transport and irrigation.”

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Science Meets Farming in Africa

admin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:54:40 +0000

“Africa has a long history of exporting resources and importing food, despite the potential to meet its own food demands, reduce poverty, and drive economic growth. Unfortunately, major international agencies such as the United Nations (UN) have persistently opposed expanding biotechnology to regions most in need of its societal and economic benefits.”

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Africa’s Agricultural Revolution Will Be Driven by Research and Technology

admin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:51:58 +0000

“Unlike the Asian Green Revolution that focused on increasing productivity, Africa’s agricultural revolution is focusing on using new technologies to solve local problems. Its humanistic touch is particularly evident in the attention it is paying to improving local crops.”

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mHealth Alliance and Rockefeller Foundation Honor Leading Mobile Health Innovators of the Year

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:05:09 +0000

Top 11 in 2011 Innovators Challenge Winners Announced in Time for the 2011 mHealth Summit
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Blog Post: The Open Data Revolution Comes to Aid

admin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:34:52 +0000

Blog Post: The Open Data Revolution Comes to Aid

http://www.aidinfo.org/the-open-data-revolution-comes-to-aid.html

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Preventing Hunger: Biotechnology is Key

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:05:05 +0000

“To survive the droughts, wars and other major causes of famine, Africa must embrace technologies that enable it to produce more, better food with less effort.

Indeed, without the advances in molecular biology and other scientific fields that occurred in the second half of the twentieth century, African nations would be much worse off than they are now. Without this Green Revolution, which enabled developing nations to import cheaper grains and grow high-yield seed varieties, analysts estimate that crop yields in developing countries would have been 23.5% lower and prices between 35% and 66% higher in 2000. Caloric intake would have dropped by up to 14.4%, and the proportion of malnourished children would have increased by nearly 8%. Put another way, the Green Revolution helped to raise the nutritional status of up to 42 million preschool children in developing countries (R. E. Evenson and D. Gollin Science 300, 758–762; 2003)….”

Continue reading: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v479/n7374/full/479471a.html

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Africa’s New Engine

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:04:10 +0000

Cell phone use has grown faster in Africa than in any other region of the world since 2003….Of course, South Africa—the most developed nation—still has the highest penetration, but across Africa, countries have leapfrogged technology, bringing innovation and connectivity even to remote parts of the continent, opening up mobile banking and changing the way business is done.

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Juma Lauded for Role in First Innovation Advisory Council

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:00:06 +0000

Calestous Juma, director of the Belfer Center’s Science, Technology, and Globalization Project, played a central role in creation of the Lagos Innovation Advisory Council, the first of its kind in Africa.

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Southern Africa Horizon Scan (Oct 2011)

admin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:45:23 +0000

This Searchlight newsletter by South Africa Node reviews development, economic, political and social, environmental and technological issues affecting southern Africa.
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