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Mobile Phones Advancing Women’s Healthcare
This article was originally drafted by the Strategic Foresight Group for the newsletter “Asian Horizons” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. In recent years, mobile phones have been increasingly used to advance development efforts in women’s healthcare in Bangladesh. Given the […]
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Ajegunle.org: Overcoming Poverty through ICT
This article was originally drafted by the Centre for Democracy and Development for the newsletter “West Africa Insight” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Market in Abuja, Nigeria (By Zouzou Wizman(Own work) [CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons) Ajegunle, trapped between the docklands […]
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Brazil phasing out incandescent light bulbs
The following article deals with the topic “Reassessing Renewable Energies” which will be discussed at the Global Economic Symposium in Rio this October. The author intends to enrich the discussion at the symposium with his personal stories and ideas. By Rasheed Abou-Alsamh I STILL remember shopping for compact fluorescent light (CFLs) bulbs […]
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The Growth of Megacities: Exacerbating Future Water Problems
This article was originally drafted by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy for Issue 15 of the newsletter “Asian Trends Monitoring Bulletin” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Jakarta, taken from Istiqlal mosque Jakarta panoramic view around Medan Merdeka […]
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Mobile Business School in India
This article was originally drafted by the Strategic Foresight Group for the newsletter “Asian Horizons” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. A mobile business school model has been conceived and run by a local NGO in Maharashtra, the Mann Deshi Foundation. […]