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Software applications, or apps, that help solve East African farmers' climate problems have received cash prizes in the Apps4Africa competition.

Newly-developed software to monitor food prices of staple crops may help reduce volatility in food prices in many Sub-Saharan countries.

Centre will enable semiconductor and electronics companies to achieve growth and raise exports.

Jordan will coordinate a network linking researchers in seven Arab countries.

Developing countries could prepare better for extreme weather events if they used more than one weather model, say scientists.

A retrospective study of tweets on the 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti found them broadly as good as official data at predicting its progress.

Scientists have built a database for schistosomiasis in Africa, which they are putting forward as a model for a global neglected disease tool.

Africa's farmers need more extension workers, but new technologies could replace some services, a meeting has heard.

An Eye on Earth Declaration and a set of Special Initiatives target next year’s major international conference on sustainable development.

A technology centre in Jordan hopes to unlock the research potential of countries of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.

Farmers facing climate change will see how those in other parts of the world already survive under the same conditions.

UNESCO has launched a website that will collect information on the status of open access to scientific information across the world.

High-tech healthcare from rich countries is distracting Africa from more powerful uses of e-health, a conference in Kenya has heard.

A UN report proposes that Peru should integrate its S&T into its development goals, invest in human capital and promote three key sectors.

Installing solar-powered charging stations in African villages could bring in a steady income for rural entrepreneurs, says a report.

Farmers whose crops failed in the Horn of Africa drought may still be able to farm next year, through a mobile phone insurance scheme.

Peru's One Laptop Per Child scheme is suffering because its teachers lack training and schools lack the Internet, a minister has said.

Colombian scientists are using grid computing in a pioneering search for drug candidates for leishmaniasis.

The success of Twitter typhoon alerts has inspired a more responsive online weather communication strategy in the Philippines.