Whether or not you think Bill Gates is a sadist probably has a lot to do with whether or not you're a Vista user, but we can all agree that freeing a swarm of mosquitoes into an auditorium is downright cruel. Yet that's just what ...READ»
Half of the people on Earth today are at risk of contracting the mosquito-borne disease malaria. And close to one million people, mainly children in Africa, die of the disease each year, according to the World Health ...READ»
I am usually writing about leadership development for corporate executives - high impact service opportunities to involve business people and philanthropists in global issues. Today, I am thrilled to write about a national program ...READ»
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»
Innovation: Synthetic malaria cure
Available: 2009
In the labs of Amyris Biotechnologies, scientists are transferring genes from microbe to microbe. This molecular manipulation is the basis of synthetic biology, which ...READ»
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced that it has bestowed 76 grants of $100,000 each to scientists who have come up with unconventional ways to destroy infectious diseases in the developing world. Below are ...READ»
Let's play word association: intern + texting = ____. Setting up a date? Skipping out on work? Sexting? At IBM, how about saving millions of lives?
A new initiative called SMS for Life, born from the minds of a group of IBM's Extreme ...READ»
Last year, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation inaugurated its Grand Challenges Exploration--a five-year, $100 million program to encourage path-breaking research that's ordinarily too visionary to attract ...READ»
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is known for funding innovative projects. The latest round of 78 grants doesn't disappoint, with recipients across 18 countries and six continents receiving $100,000 apiece for inventions that ...READ»
In my latest post on education, I discussed research at the Parsons School of Design on educational games that address social issues. Harnessing technology to promote social awareness is certainly not a new phenomenon. In fact, ...READ»
Yes. The Institute for OneWorld Health in San Francisco claims to the the first one in the U.S. Just today it received a $42.6 million five-year grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to try to cure malaria.READ»
It seemed inevitable that Bill Gates would one day build a killer laser. But who would have guessed that it would be for killing mosquitoes? The Weapon of Mosquito Destruction (WMD), developed by astrophysicists and former ...READ»
While you were sleeping, innovation resigned in a truly innovative way: It wrote a letter to its boss, and sent it snail mail.1. A couple of "cool new mobile features" are to be unveiled by Google on Thursday for Android phones. It's ...READ»
Introducing the Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Award winners--25 entrepreneurs solving the world's toughest problems with creativity, ingenuity, and passion. Because they can't stand a vacuum.READ»
Now there's a line that would fit nicely in Microsoft's unusually moving new ad campaign. This week the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it had spent $10 million on 104 global-health research projects considered too ...READ»
Think zinc is just a health food store supplement? Think again. UNICEF and the International Zinc Association are rolling out a zinc campaign to help prevent more than 800,000 deaths.READ»
At the wealthiest foundation on the planet, a brilliant scientist is giving away Bill Gates's money in pursuit of a lofty goal: solving the world's most pressing health problems.READ»
Fifteen years after the genocide, the small African country has embraced a new model of economic development. Its strategy: Build a global network of powerful friends to lure private investment -- and market the brand of Rwanda.READ»
If your corporate social responsibility (CSR) program is ancillary to your corporate strategy, it's on the chopping block--or already in the waste bin. This is especially true in today's economy. On the flip side, you have a chance to ...READ»
