Image via Wikipedia Mobile Phones for Women: Telecoms, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and nonprofits are pushing to put mobile phones directly in the hands of women in low- and middle-... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Empowering young women through education will help reduce overpopulation in areas that cannot support it and avoid extremism in the children they raise At six billion plu... Read more
Until now, an eye test has meant a trip to the optometrist for most people. NETRA, from MIT’s Media Lab, is set to change that. Combined with a modern mobile phone, the device, current... Read more
Image via CrunchBase The idea is to bring student loans to the developing world through the power of person-to-person microlending The microfinance model has proved to be a valuable way to r... Read more
Image by gautamnguitar via Flickr Running on just sugar and caffeine, 32 teams of students worked non-stop for 18 hours to develop applications that they hoped would blow the judges’ socks o... Read more
Image via Wikipedia On Oct. 17, 1989, a major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck the Bay Area in Northern California. Sixty-three people were killed. This week, a major earthquake, al... Read more