Topic: Kenya

Fast Talk: Water Work

For the last 70 years, Population Services International has been using private sector distribution and marketing channels to deliver low-cost health products--such as Waterguard, a chlorine-based water-treatment solution--in developing countries worldwide.READ»

Inside PopTech's Solar-Powered Bag FLAP: Testing Across Africa

In the fourth installment of our story about a new product collaboration between PopTech, Timbuk2 Designs, and the Portable Light Project, White African's Erik Hersman takes the FLAP prototype to Africa for testing.READ»

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Kenya Drought - What Does it Take to call it a famine?

More reports of the worsening food shortages in East Africa as a direct result of the drought in kenya.Kenya drought conditions have been magnified by lack of rain obviously but als more sinisterly the diversion of much needed water ...READ»

Mobile Clinics, Kenyan Style: On Camelback

To deliver refrigerated medicines to remote parts of Kenya, one group has developed solar-powered mobile clinics, carried by camels.READ»

Ericsson, Orange Sending Solar-Powered Cell Coverage to Africa

While many of us struggle to tear ourselves away from computers and cell phones, communities in rural Africa deal with a different problem: lack of communication. Orange Guinea Conakry and Ericcson announced last week a plan ...READ»

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Google's Surfing Safari

The search giant is betting that it can become synonymous with theInternet in places like strife-torn Kenya. It has a long way to go.READ»

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The 30 Most Important Books for Product Designers

What are the most important books for any product designer--or anyone hoping to crib some design thinking? READ»

How Innovations from Developing Nations Trickle-Up to the West

A funny thing has happened on the way to globalization: Innovation now trickles up from emerging to advanced economies. And it may be the way of the future.READ»

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Social Capitalism in Words

The concept of social entrepreneurship means different things to different people. Here some people discuss what two particular social projects mean to them.READ»

Rethinking the Zoo: Where Are the Gushing Oil Pumps in the Penguin Pool?

As habitats change, an artists' installation at a Vienna zoo shows how the design of animal exhibitions may change with them.READ»

• Unnatural Habitats: Rethinking the Modern Zoo

Love Can Be So Lucrative

I was wandering around Coney Island one day not too long ago with a few friends when a scruffy, bearded guy who was trying to sell some equally scruffy stuffed animals stopped us. "Come on guys," he somewhat insolently ...READ»

J-Pal’s Most Provocative Inquiries

J-PAL members hope their findings will inspire smarter anti-poverty policy. Here, a look at some of their most provocative inquiries.READ»

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Community Cooker Prevents Disease in Kenyan Slums

It's a nearly impossible to prevent the spread of disease in slums filled with mountains and rivers of trash. Finding fuel to heat stoves for residents of said slums isn't much easier. All of this is why the "Community ...READ»

Carbon Micro Credits for the Developing World

Families in Kenya now have a convincing reason to lower their carbon footprints: cash. Yes, two of the trendiest ethonomic concepts of the last 10 years--carbon credits and microfinance--have finally merged. Carbon Manna ...READ»

Africa Technology and Investment Digest Week 1

Ushahidi featured in MIT’s Top 10 Start-Ups To Watch The GIS service for tracking incidents of unrest in violence in Kenya, Ushahidi, has been featured in MIT’s Technology Review as on of the Top 10 Start-Ups to Watch… ...READ»

The Ecological Credit Crunch

Banks and the automobile industry have had the luxury of government bailouts, but what about Mother Nature? Who should be responsible for paying off the huge ecological debt that has accumulated over years of use and abuse of the world’s natural resources? The idea of an ecological credit crunch happening may seem far-fetched, but the truth is we are using up limited resources that are fast running out. We may not have much longer before an ecological credit crisis occurs.READ»

Haptic Speakers: Reach Out and Touch Some Sound

"Haptics" is the design philosophy of making products that we interact with through touch, rather than buttons or dials. A good example at work: A new speaker concept, designed by Parisian industrial designer Arnaud Lapierre. The ...READ»

Mobile World Congress Preview

Cell-phone honchos meet in Barcelona, Spain, February 16-19 to talk -- in person -- about their sector's possibilities and challenges. Four gave us a preview.READ»

Making Friends, Creating Customers

Intel's World Ahead Program is an ambitious billion-dollar venture, but other tech and telecom companies are also building relationships in developing countries that promise to become the most massive of mass markets. Among ...READ»

2009 Anita Borg Change Agent Award Winners

The Anita Borg Change Agent Award recognizes three experienced women from around the world whose work goes to the heart of the Anita Borg Institute's mission: to increase the impact of women on all aspects of technology, and to ...READ»

GlaxoSmithKline Fights Malaria in Africa with Satellites

Malaria kills one million people a year, most of them children in Africa's so-called Malaria Belt (the sub-Saharan region). In partnership with the Gates Foundation, pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline is preparing an ambitious ...READ»

Changing the World, One Luxury Vacation at a Time

Philanthropic travel combines exotic destinations with a dollop of social conscience.READ»

Seven Signs of Our Times Online

This isn't your usual August. With enough political issues smoldering to fill a decade of American history, the vacation month has turned into a morass of issues that boggles the mind. Here are seven articles that went viral this ...READ»