Fun and games help communicate disaster science
Games can help people to see disaster risks and effects with their own eyes, helping them to engage with complex science, a conference hears.
23 May 2013 | EN
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Games can help people to see disaster risks and effects with their own eyes, helping them to engage with complex science, a conference hears.
23 May 2013 | EN
Latin American governments are contesting plans by US firms Amazon and Patagonia to take charge of new geographic Internet domains.
Kenya is replacing an unwieldy drug-reporting process with an online system that allows healthcare workers to track safety in real time.
10 May 2013 | EN
IR Mapper, a free online mapping website, will enable users to follow global insecticide resistance in malaria-causing mosquitoes.
10 May 2013 | EN
Health services can use new technology to save lives, but only if local people and governments back the switch, an event has heard.
7 May 2013 | EN
DVD players and discs could soon be used as affordable diagnostics for diseases such as HIV, say researchers.
7 May 2013 | EN
The switch to digital TV is freeing up frequencies that could be used to provide cheap wireless broadband services to remote areas.
6 May 2013 | EN
New research aims to help African policymakers understand the constraints on women entrepreneurs to unlock their economic potential.
5 May 2013 | EN
A game and two other mobile apps that help citizens tackle local sanitation problems have won a World Bank-funded technology competition.
22 April 2013 | EN
A new online data platform hopes to improve governance in twenty African countries and provide open access to official statistics.
19 April 2013 | EN
Wireless communications are an affordable option that can help Africa's scientists, farmers and health workers, a workshop hears.
A how-to video published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments explains how to turn a mobile phone into a diagnostic device.
Mobile phone health projects could drastically cut deaths from HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and pregnancy-related conditions, says report.
10 April 2013 | EN
The cost and time of analysing drug resistance in HIV positive people could be radically reduced by a tool being tested in South Africa.
9 April 2013 | EN
A report examines why early warning systems are good at predicting crises but bad at triggering preventive action.
A device that turns video into pixelated images could help the blind and those with poor eyesight to navigate and find objects, says a study.
Trials of a mobile phone microscope to detect intestinal worms in children show strong results and could make testing much more accessible.
12 March 2013 | EN
New computer language based on Arabic characters is designed to encourage more Arab speakers to enter the software writing sector.
5 March 2013 | EN
Mobile-phone towers could help fill the gaps in African rainfall data and provide the power needed to keep vaccines refrigerated.
Mobile phones can help improve malaria detection and treatment in remote rural areas, according to research carried out in Bangladesh.