Peace is not a white dove.
Indigenous social entrepreneurs are pioneering innovative solutions to combat climate change, leveraging traditional knowledge and practices to inform modern climate change mitigation strategies. Their impact stories demonstrate the power of indigenous-knowledge and wisdom.
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The School Meal Planner PLUS is revolutionizing school feeding programs worldwide, providing millions of children with nutritious meals and promoting better learning and development. … Continue readingRevolutionizing School Feeding: The Impact of Innovative Meal Planning
I don’t know how to read: how can I use AI? This is the reality for around 754 million adults with low literacy worldwide, according to UNESCO’s 2024 Global Education … Continue readingMEGHA: Voice-Based AI for India’s Rural Communities
A main crux of neuroscience is learning how our senses translate light into sight, sound into hearing, food into taste, and texture into touch. Smell is where these sensory relationships … Continue readingCan machines smell? Machine learning enables machines to recognize smells
Last week I enrolled for a “Deutsch Learning Café” open course hosted by the city library in Freiburg im Breisgau, at the Baden-Wurttemberg region, in Germany. I found it a … Continue readingTechnology for Peace
I was reading El Pais today and suddenly passed through the story of Catherine Taylor, from Arkansas. Catherine applied for a position with Red Cross, trying to ‘save the world’, … Continue readingEthical Issues concerning algorithms
Tiny satellite technology can bring connectivity to the remotest places on Earth. … Continue readingLow-cost satellites for remote areas may reduce the digital divide
A fleet of robot taxis plans to start a testing phase for autonomous transportation in 2022 in Munich. The robotaxi will begin as a small-scale service, using drivers for safety at the initial phase. Later this decade, the plan is to scale the service across Germany and other European countries. … Continue readingFuture is here: Germany tests robot taxis in 2022
By Mary-Jean Nleya | CBNAfrica.com In a hyper connected and increasingly digitized global landscape, human connection and interaction has been, and continues to be, transformed. Information communication technologies (ICTs) have … Continue readingHow digital tech helps get Botswana’s female entrepreneurs back in business
Close your eyes and imagine how life of a blind person is. Who has never played this game in order to better understand the challenges people with visual limitations face.? How do they know where they are going? How do they know where to turn left or right? Lechal was born as a smart shoe to help blinds by using geo-sensitive technology to vibrate and show the path. Is it helpful? … Continue readingA vibrating tennis to guide blinds. Is it helpful?
Manu Prakash, a professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, has developed a Project basted on 3D printed engineering that allow to save up to 50% of oxygen in a tank . This is possible because during oxygen therapy, when a patient exhales, oxygen is still being supplied and is thus wasted. … Continue readingHow 3D printers can help India to save oxygen