The solar researchers aiming to light up Africa
Can a new network of African energy researchers lead the way on solar power for the continent? Christine Ottery finds out.
2 February 2012 | EN

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Can a new network of African energy researchers lead the way on solar power for the continent? Christine Ottery finds out.
2 February 2012 | EN
Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan of Jordan talks to SciDev.Net about hopes for science in the Middle East, science diplomacy and the role of women scientists.
25 January 2012 | EN
SciDev.Net speaks to UNESCO's Gretchen Kalonji about how a new panel of experts is breathing fresh life into the organisation's science plans.
Bernie Fanaroff, director of South Africa's Square Kilometre Array project, tells SciDev.Net how hosting the world's most powerful radio telescope would benefit Africa.
2 August 2011 | EN
Romain Murenzi, the new executive director of TWAS, the developing world's science academy, talks to SciDev.Net about his plans for the organisation.
14 July 2011 | EN
The Royal Society's new foreign secretary, Martyn Poliakoff, talks to SciDev.Net about his plans to develop links with African scientists.
8 July 2011 | EN
Developing countries need more women scientists. Jeanne Therese H. Andres charts the obstacles and how to overcome them.
Women from Jordan, Kenya, Pakistan, Peru and the Philippines tell SciDev.Net how they realised their dreams of careers in science.
Nearly forty years since its inception, India's Barefoot College has trained 15,000 women in a range of poverty-stemming skills.
Source: Wired UK
29 March 2011 | EN
The African Union is determined to push ahead with plans for a Pan-African University, despite disputes over several of its five hubs.
29 November 2010 | EN
India's research and development is on the up, but there are problems to tackle if it is to create a prosperous society for everyone.
Source: TWAS, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
15 October 2010 | EN
With a bit of imagination, technologies can be made cheap enough for the poor, but investors are needed, finds Kafil Yamin.
30 July 2010 | EN
The optimism felt by scientists at the fall of apartheid is fading as financial and social realities fail to match up to expectations.
Source: Nature
What do a country's universities need to support a large-scale nuclear industry? One group in South Africa is trying to find out.
27 November 2009 | EN
Money is no object at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology — but will sumptuous surroundings promote research?
Source: Science
23 October 2009 | EN
Post-apartheid South African science faces many challenges but boosts in science spending mean the country is making strides.
Source: TWAS
Sian Lewis charts the ups and downs in donor funding for higher education in developing countries over the last half century.
Fostering a research culture has put Uganda's Makerere University back on its feet and is inspiring others, says Peter Wamboga-Mugirya.
Iraq is rebuilding its science base but fear of attack means refugee academics are slow to return, reports Brendan O'Malley.
Is a South African row over academic freedom rooted in objections to post-apartheid reforms or to abrasive management, asks Sharon Davis.