Chile relief efforts coordinated from Kenya, using online mapping tool

Within an hour of the massive earthquake in Chile, relief efforts were coordinated from as far away as Kenya – 12,000 km from the location of the quake. How is that possible? The answer is a crisis group called Ushahidi and its effective online mapping tool, reports BBC.
Ushahidi, which means “testimony” in Swahili, was [...]

World food security and the global economic crisis

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009
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This presentation, based on the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) publication The State of Food and Agriculture 2009, deals with world food security and the global economic crisis. More people are hungry today than at any point since 1970, [...]

Mobile health solutions for West Africa

MHealth Alliance (picture source) and Orange Healthcare team up to develop mobile health solutions for West Africa.
At the GSM Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Orange Healthcare announced last week that they will be joining the mHealth Alliance, a partnership which leverages rapid advances in mobile technology to improve public health, health care systems and patient [...]

Learning for a sustainable world

MKFC Stockholm College is working to realize Education for All (EFA) and to make the educational activities sustainable (ESD).
“In this regard, EFA provides the basic foundation for building more just societies focusing on rights, empowerment and development, but it does not go far enough. This is where ESD reinforces EFA efforts by challenging dominant conceptions, [...]

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Sponsored by the Media and Communications Branch of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Conversations for a Better World is a shared blog dealing with health, population, and gender issues. The aim is to encourage people from all over the world to exchange different ideas and viewpoints on some of the most important issues of [...]

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