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
Argentinean companies and cooperatives have launched a free-software initiative to help develop products for public and private sectors.
13 May 2013 | ES
A new bill aims to encourage science communication to the public and educational institutions in Mexico.
10 May 2013 | ES
New research aims to help African policymakers understand the constraints on women entrepreneurs to unlock their economic potential.
5 May 2013 | EN
Consumers from Brazil and China are top among those who know how to adequately define biological diversity, says an international survey.
2 May 2013 | ES
A plan is needed to protect critical science journalism as media incomes fall, heard a meeting ahead of the World Conference of Science Journalists.
UNESCO has announced that it will support a number of initiatives aimed at boosting a culture of open access to science research in Latin America and the Caribbean.
23 April 2013 | ES
A new science communication project is targeting citizens in the most crowded areas of Panama City.
19 April 2013 | ES
A new online data platform hopes to improve governance in twenty African countries and provide open access to official statistics.
19 April 2013 | EN
The Chinese Academy of Sciences is to open new centres in the developing world to promote science cooperation and training.
18 April 2013 | EN
Wireless communications are an affordable option that can help Africa's scientists, farmers and health workers, a workshop hears.
A Brazilian TV show pays attention to health research, but not always to key public health problems, says a study.
17 April 2013 | ES
A report examines why early warning systems are good at predicting crises but bad at triggering preventive action.
A clinical research fellowship scheme to train African biomedical students will open later this year.
5 April 2013 | EN
After an expert meeting, scientists are increasingly positive that policymakers will involve science in the Sustainable Development Goals process.
Six sessions have been dropped from the World Conference on Science Journalism programme due to a lack of money to help speakers attend.
Science and scientists have been the inspiration for several performances and parades, at carnivals taking place across Brazil.
Science journalists working in the Global South are more optimistic about the sector than those in the developed world, reveals a report.
Potato batteries, wind-powered mine detectors, smart waterpumps… SciDev.Net revisits some of the best inventions of 2012.
The Peruvian press rarely covers issues dealing with REDD initiatives, and journalists are ill-prepared on environmental issues, finds a survey.
9 January 2013 | ES