E4C Visualized: Drowning in E-Waste
For a punch in the gut, try these visual representations of the amount of electronics the world discards every...
Engineering for Change
Interest: ICT
The boom in mobile phone ownership has been one of the unanticipated success stories of global development. And with all of that computing power in the hands of so many people, software engineers are at the leading edge of the work to improve lives. Other electronic hardware is also gaining momentum, with innovations like e-readers, drones and 3D printers. These tools are how communities can leapfrog over phases of development to catch up with the pack.
Interest: ICT
The STI Forum Delivers Innovation for Sustainable Developmen...
From ultrasound on a mobile phone to robo-calls for fortified wheat: the STI Forum delivered innovation for sustainable development. Tiny startups shared time with titans of international cooperation to...
Robots Are Coming and the Fallout Will Harm Marginalized Com...
COVID-19 has brought about numerous, devastating changes to people’s lives globally. With the number of cases rising across Canada and globally, we are also witnessing the development and use...
Simprints Puts Faces (and Fingerprints) to Names
Editor’s note: The U.K. biometrics startup Simprints is developing ways of identifying the hundreds of millions of people whose births have never been officially registered. Here we offer an...
The Digital Divide: How Virtual Technology Can Help Close Ga...
The pandemic has changed working conditions across every sector and industry. Our homes have become places of work with social distancing restrictions forcing workers to leave the office. This...
IoT Technologies Should Increase Vaccination Rates in the Fu...
The biggest obstacles to achieving universal vaccination coverage worldwide come down to a lack of proper data monitoring. Vaccination is among the most cost-effective health interventions for preventing infectious...
Needed: An Ecosystem for Meaningful Digital Innovation in No...
The author, Jacob Mugendi, discusses this research on a panel in a recorded E4C Webinar, Digital Development in Kenya: Challenges and Opportunities. The information and communications technology (ICT) industry...
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Contact Tracing Apps Can Work, If They Surmount Their Trust Problem
An emerging complementary measure to fight the coronavirus and flatten the new infection curve is the implementation of contact...
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Challenges in Implementing Digital Technologies in Rural Kenya
If you ask people in Nairobi where they might like to live if they didn’t have to worry about...
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Research Brief: How Digital Solutions May Enhance Social Financing
In July 2019, Siemens Stiftung, the foundation of the Siemens engineering firm, convened startup CEOs and experts in financing...
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Virtual Hackathons: Solve Coronavirus Problems Without Leaving Home
If you want to solve a problem quickly it helps to get many minds working together to find a...
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Twelve Apps Making Cities Accessible to Travelers and Immigrants
This article is part of a series by students in the Sustainable Development program at Lehigh University in Bethlehem,...
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The Coronavirus Is Breaking Global Supply Chains But There’s An Alternative – Make It At Home
As COVID-19 wreaks havoc on global supply chains, a trend of moving manufacturing closer to customers could go so...
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Nine Digital Innovations that Improve City Life Worldwide
This article is part of a series by students in the Sustainable Development program at Lehigh University in Bethlehem,...
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Digital Identity: A Solution to Kenya’s ID Challenge?
A proposed national biometric identity program in Kenya has incited criticism from privacy and digital rights advocates, prompting a...
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Working Remotely: Seven Tips for Productive Online Meetings
Editor’s note: Grace Burleson is an Expert Research Fellow at Engineering for Change who wrote this article for Medium...
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The Lack of Environmental Data Is an Obstacle for Progress in Paraguay
Lea esto en español. Lack of information leads to uncertainty in decision making and outcomes analysis. Reliable information is...
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