A Serbian entrepreneur with an online portal for selling cattle. The Kenyan founder of an online crafts marketplace that works with artisans who have no bank accounts. The CEO of a software services provider in Nepal. Three entrepreneurs discuss the challenges and benefits of e-commerce in this series of videos. … [Read more...]

When Raspberry Pi announced the Model B+ back in July, they said that they’d also be producing a lower-cost variant, analogous to the original Model A. On November 10, they announced the release of the Raspberry Pi Model A+ at a new low price of $20. Like the Model A, the Model A+ uses the BCM2835 application processor and has 256MB RAM, but it is significantly smaller (65mm … [Read more...]

KA LITE is an offline version of Khan Academy offering high-quality education by bringing the online learning accessible to the offline users. This open-source software runs on the local server and users can watch Khan Academy videos and do exercises as well as track student’s progress, etc, everything without Internet connectivity. KA LITE provides over 4,000 videos and … [Read more...]

Julian Assange: Nobody wants to acknowledge that Google has grown big and bad. But it has. Schmidt’s tenure as CEO saw Google integrate with the shadiest of U.S. power structures as it expanded into a geographically invasive megacorporation. But Google has always been comfortable with this proximity. Long before company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin hired Schmidt in … [Read more...]

Literacy is transformative: it increases earning potential, decreases inequality, improves health outcomes and breaks the cycle of poverty (UNESCO). Yet there are 740 million illiterate people in this world and 250 million children of primary school age who lack basic reading and writing skills (UNESCO). Books are necessary for the development of these skills, and still 50% of … [Read more...]

Vietnam has already suffered the effects of climate change in increasing toll from typhoons, floods and saline intrusion due to the rise of seal level. To help the country mitigate and adapt to these effects, infoDev’s Climate Technology Program (CTP) is working to support the profitable development and commercialization of local climate solutions and businesses. To identify … [Read more...]

Street protests demanding urgent action on climate change have attracted hundreds of thousands of marchers in more than 2,000 locations worldwide. The People's Climate March is campaigning for curbs on carbon emissions, ahead of the UN climate summit in New York next week. In Manhattan, organisers said some 310,000 people joined a march that was also attended by UN chief … [Read more...]

  In August 2103, the School of Business and Applied Studies Limited (ROYTEC), at the University of the West Indies, signed a memorandum of understanding for a partnership with the Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC). In doing so, ROYTEC agreed to embrace open educational resources (OER) as an operating strategy. ROYTEC’s first VUSSC … [Read more...]

fastcoexist.com - More than 1 billion people around the world don’t have electricity, and even more don’t have access to reliable electricity; when they flip a switch, it may or may not work. While dozens of startups are working on new sources of cheap off-grid energy--from solar panels to gravity-powered lights--one of the challenges that remains is storing … [Read more...]

Let's get one thing straight from the start. There is no population explosion. The rate of population growth has been slowing since the 1960s, and has fallen below replacement levels half the world over. But what about the other half? That's where population is exploding, right? Well, actually, no. The UN Population Division's world fertility patterns show that, worldwide, … [Read more...]