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What Malala’s Nobel Peace Prize Means for Pakistan and the World
Written by Usama Khilji
Malala Yousufzai first gained recognition in 2008 at age 11 when she took to the Press Club in Peshawar against the Taliban banning girls’ education in the Swat valley. She soon started writing an anonymous blog for the BBC as Gul Makai, chronicling the feelings of a young girl […]
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Kenyan Start-Up Is Looking At Nairobi’s Traffic Gridlock as a Business
Written by kachwanya
“The traffic situation in Nairobi has reached unbearable proportions that we need a stakeholders’ conference to chart out short, medium and long term strategies to deal with the situation as an emergency.” Former Kenyan Minister ICT Dr. Bitange Ndemo said recently in his article for the businessdailyafrica.com. Dr.Ndemo’s sentiment depicts […]
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Technology for Social Good
Written by Danish Aziz
The India Social Good Summit 2014 was recently held by UNDP India at the Indian Institute of Technology at New Delhi. The key message was ‘Technology for Social Good’. The summit showcased four technological innovations that were changing the lives of people for good. It was a rather apt location […]
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Solar Power for Development
Written by Kapell
Mexican sun and German technology are the two key components of Gregor Schapers’ innovative project. Deep in rural Mexico, in a small town of 450 inhabitants called El Sauz, Schapers, a German entrepreneur, founded Trinysol, a firm specializing in building cheap solar reflectors for small local businesses to bake, cook […]
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Innovations As Solutions – Better Life By New Technologies
Written by Daniel Roth
Every innovation begins with an idea. Future Challenges bloggers present innovative ideas that are making lives better – for people all over the world.
