Nine Digital Innovations that Improve City Life Worldwide
The city can be friendlier, safer, easier to navigate and more environmentally sustainable with a new breed digital technology....
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
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 temporary suspension from the nation’s high court. The program, called...
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 and for reprint here. The fellows are based around the...
The Lack of Environmental Data Is an Obstacle for Progress i...
Lea esto en español. Lack of information leads to uncertainty in decision making and outcomes analysis. Reliable information is necessary to implement and evaluate problems effectively. This is especially...
La Falta de Información Ambiental: un Obstáculo para Progr...
Read this in English. La falta de información conlleva a una incertidumbre a la hora de tomar decisiones y analizar las consecuencias. Por lo tanto, contar con información confiable...
Research Brief: Showing Videos Improves Adoption of New Agri...
Animated videos on phones and other devices may be an effective method of teaching new agricultural techniques to farmers in underserved communities, new research suggests. Two years after viewing...
Social Entrepreneurs Need Two Improvements to Their Financin...
Two ideas emerged to improve access for social startups when Siemens Stiftung convened a round table of experts on financing in Cairo, Egypt, this year. One is the need for...
We Used Smartphones to Screen Children for Vision and Hearing Loss
Healthy hearing and vision in early childhood are the foundation for success at school. Hearing and vision difficulties are...
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Mobile Mesh Devices Keep a School Running in Venezuela
In the midst of economic and political crisis, Venezuela is a tough place to keep a school running. Electricity...
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3D Printing Food to End World Hunger
Printable food is finding a niche in high-end experimental cuisine as the technology develops, but 3D printers may someday...
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New Technologies Can Be a Force for Good in Africa if They’re Developed from the Ground
Sub-Saharan Africa is at a point where new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) could present both opportunities and...
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We Built an App to Detect Areas Most Vulnerable to Life-Threatening Haze
Forest and land-use fires are ravaging Indonesia’s Sumatra and Kalimantan islands. Haze from these fires threatens lives as inhaling...
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Dodging Censorship and Rural Poverty: Satellite TV Beams Disguised Information into Homes
Satellite receiver dishes mount the roofs of homes and community centers around the world. Even in rural villages where...
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Connecting the Unconnected: A Human-Centric Approach to Internet Access
While technology giants experiment with drones, balloons and satellites to deliver the Internet to the world’s hard-to-reach communities, one...
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Software for Soil: Computer Assisted Design can Check Erosion
The soil is in trouble. About one-third of the world’s land is moderately to highly degraded, suffering from erosion,...
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Fellow Visionaries
Editor’s note: Eye care venture PlenOptika found that contrary to common assumptions, the reason more people in the world...
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The Case for a Unified Identity
More than 980 million people do not possess any form of identification, according to the 2018 Identity for Development...
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