Whether you want to build a school in Africa or start a consulting business, there are four key steps to making it happen (and all of them involve getting the rest of the world to care).
It would be a lot easier to end the disease if infected people just stayed put, but they tend to move around and bring malaria with them. But using cell phone data, scientists can help predict where outbreaks will spread, and work to stop them before they start.
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Wind power isn’t used much in the developing world, since a turbine is much more expensive than a solar panel. But Access:energy is flipping that equation by finding ways to build the turbines in the communities where they’re needed.
That's what you thought Kiva did already? Not quite. But the new Kiva Zip lets you lend directly to a real person, with a higher chance it won't get paid back. It's a vast experiment in online trust and it could change the face of microfinance.
Sanergy is a business full of waste. The startup--funded in part by the U.S. government--gives toilets away to business people in the slums, who charge for use. In exchange, Sanergy gets the... leftovers, which they convert into electricity and sell.
The droughts in Somalia are creating the latest refugee crisis. At the same time, Western countries are clamping down on asylum claims. But a new type of city could house refugees and give them a chance to form their own economies.
