Why democracy doesn’t work for African growth
Apr 22, 2015, 8:40 am By SciDevHear Ugandan media CEO Robert Kabushenga explain why the continent’s nations must break free from…UN urged to demand free access to crop data
Apr 22, 2015, 4:00 am By SciDevMaking genomes freely available would help to meet the SDG on food security, say experts behind…Crowdfunding drive to give solar heating plans to firms
Apr 22, 2015, 3:00 am By SciDevThe campaign aims to provide free construction guides for basic solar concentrators and to fund…Challenges for media development in Liberia
Apr 22, 2015, 2:20 am By SciDevThis audio interview examines journalism’s rebuilding role in this post-conflict, Ebola-stricken…Three major canal schemes criticised over use of science
Apr 21, 2015, 11:00 am By SciDevAs the water management projects get off the ground, SciDev.Net reviews how their planners are…Global south’s data journalism is ripe for revenue
Apr 21, 2015, 9:00 am By SciDevListen to Sharon Moshavi explain how improving this field of journalism can boost governance and…Fairness is important, but hard to pin down
Apr 21, 2015, 4:40 am By SciDevFairness in health research is a laudable goal, but a conference is unsure how to measure it.Apes lack Ebola protection, scientists warn
Apr 20, 2015, 11:40 am By SciDevA vaccine for gorillas and chimpanzees would protect biodiversity and may stop future human…View on Migration: Online learning for Syrian refugees
Apr 19, 2015, 8:00 pm By SciDevShift higher education for refugees from foreign scholarships to online distance learning, urges…New media could topple ‘helicopter journalism’ in Africa
12:20pm By SciDevLocal use of social media is beginning to add nuance to superficial international journalism, a…Q&A: Patrick Wagnon on glaciers and climate change
7:00am By SciDevSciDev.Net talks to scientist Patrick Wagnon about his studies of glaciers as climate change…Low-cost, serviced X-ray device ‘just a few years away’
4:00am By SciDevThe GlobalDiagnostiX device will be US$50,000 including ten years of maintenance — a tenth of…Is it necessary to teach poor kids to code?
Thu 10:20am By SciDevOne tech advocate thinks ‘coding is the new writing’ — this grand statement could hold several…Focus on Poverty: Using disgust to stop open defecation
Thu 6:40am By SciDevFostering revulsion might be a potent way to improve sanitation — but we need evidence, says Roger…Innovation falling away in parts of developing world
Thu 6:00am By SciDevPoorer nations, mainly in Africa and Asia, are producing fewer inventions now than in the 1990s,…Debate Africa’s knowledge economy
Thu 5:40am By SciDevJoin our online debate on 24 April at 1pm (BST) discussing how close Africa is to joining the…What is a knowledge economy?
Thu 1:40am By SciDevThe growing access to digital technologies could fundamentally transform developing economies.Bacterial mix could halt frog-killing fungus
Apr 15, 2015, 6:00 am By SciDevA cocktail of harmless bacteria from the skin of frogs could stop a lethal fungus in its tracks, say…The case for keeping viral hepatitis in the SDGs
Apr 15, 2015, 3:00 am By SciDevThis disease was passed over by the MDGs. Now the world is fully aware of its impact, it can no…Africa needs IP protection to build knowledge economies
Apr 14, 2015, 12:00 pm By SciDev
The next generation of African entrepreneurs and scientists need support to protect their ideas,…
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