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Insights on artificial intelligence in the developing world
Matthew Smith, senior program specialist at the International Development Research Centre, talks with Charting Change about the opportunities and challenges of AI in transforming societies
Reducing e-waste recycling risks in Ghana
How researchers are working to help mitigate the effects of toxic pollution at Agbogbloshie, a notorious dump for the world's e-waste
Combating gender-based violence in Colombia
How conversation and cartography are helping redefine attitudes toward women and LGBTI people
The math behind China's fight against HIV
How mathematical models have provided more than just a medical solution to the epidemic
Building water-stress resilience in Panama
How researchers are finding better ways to manage the precious resource in a changing climate
Designed in Canada, deployed in Mozambique
How a Mozambican expat in Saskatchewan designed a motorcycle ambulance to help improve maternal health in his homeland
A feminist approach to open government
Three experts discuss the role of women in making governments more inclusive, responsive and accountable
Saving more livestock, stabilizing more lives
How a made-in-Africa vaccine could combat multiple deadly livestock diseases at the same time
How theatre is helping Central American women cope with the perils of migrating to the United States
Sustainable development's big data revolution
How information gleaned from mobile networks could help developing countries meet sustainability goals
A decade of improving food security around the world
Five ways the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund transformed lives
From old plants and old ways, a new African agriculture
How the return of Indigenous knowledge could help change how the continent farms
Cities in South Asia are sizzling, with low-income residents bearing the brunt of urban heat stress. But researchers are finding ways to help them adapt
Breaking the bonds of childhood marriage
How young girls in West Africa are helping themselves (and their communities) by changing cultural perspectives on childhood marriage
Working wonders with mine waste
How scientists in Morocco hope to turn huge slag piles of coal mining waste into bricks and transform the city of Jerada in the process
Latin America and Canadian scientists are working on a portable diagnostic technology that could be a game-changer in the battle against diseases such as Zika
How soap-opera-style videos are helping educate couples in northern Nigeria about maternal and child health
Opportunities once beyond the grasp of Ugandans with disabilities are now within reach thanks to a specially designed wheelchair
How a natural compound called hexanal is helping prevent India’s lucrative fruit crops from spoiling
How a new designation could transform the Nairobi slum and help end the “poverty penalty” its residents face
Improving Africa's food-security, one woman at a time
Food-security expert Jemimah Njuki explains why women are poised to take a leading role in Africa's agriculture industry
From disaster, a new digital economy for Haiti
In the wake of the devastating 2010 earthquake, online opportunities are arising that could help resurrect the Caribbean nation
In Ethiopia, protein-rich crops of pulses such as chickpeas are no longer playing second fiddle to maize and wheat, a shift that’s transforming lives
How Artisan Hub is helping connect traditional craftspeople in developing countries to new and potentially lucrative foreign markets
Tuning into how the brain learns
Researchers in Canada, Israel and India believe music can offer clues about the ability of the brain to transfer learning
Constructive connections in Costa Rica
How the WEConnect International program helped Madelaine Artavia Sotela grow her construction company.
The man revamping Brazil's approach to water quality
How Adalto Bianchini's research is helping the largest country in South America rewrite its rules on one of its most precious resources
The simple agricultural kit improving life for Nepal’s terrace farmers
Life as a farmer on the terraced plots of land in Central Nepal isn’t easy, but the introduction of new agricultural practices and a few cheap, simple tools could be a boon for the men and women who work the region’s soil
Rethinking El Salvador’s public transit trouble
Riding a public bus in the Central American country can be a treacherous and even deadly experience. But a local think tank is using its newfound ability to conduct detailed on-the-ground research to help transform a system relied upon by millions.
Mexico’s digital money revolution
How the Prospera Digital e-banking program could put money in the hands of Mexico’s low-income families with just a few taps — and transform their lives in the process
How a Canadian virologist helped create a five-in-one livestock vaccine that could transform the lives of millions in Africa
The high cost of cheap clothes
Four years after the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory killed more than 1,000 people in Bangladesh, a Dhaka-based think tank continues to push for wholesale changes to one of the country’s most important industries
A creepy-crawly food revolution
Long considered pests, insects are now on the menu for farmed fish and poultry in Kenya and Uganda, where scientists are looking for cheaper, healthier ways to boost animal growth and develop the local economy
Mapping sexual harassment in Egypt
More than 95 per cent of women in Egypt have experienced sexual harassment at least once, but many citizens there turn a blind eye when it happens. The HarassMap project is aiming to change that attitude at home and abroad, empowering women and changing the attitudes of men in the process.
Maternal health enters the information age in Peru
How the Wawared project is using technology to collect and share health data that will improve the lives of women and, perhaps eventually, everyone in the nation
Canada's cyber steward on digital espionage, democracy and protecting the Internet
Ron Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab, the University of Toronto's vaunted digital watchdog, explains the importance of the Cyber Stewards Network project, which supports building cybersecurity in places such as Asia, Africa and Latin America
In Ghana's Volta River delta, the remotely-operated aerial vehicles are going where researchers can't to help study coastal erosion, flooding and migration
Building better borders in Latin America
Illegal trading and the violence that can accompany it is a scourge along Latin America’s borders, but researchers from across the region are working together to find ways to combat the problem
After years of falling behind the rest of Asia in information and communications technology, Myanmar is quickly catching up
Adapting to a new environmental reality in Morocco
How one project is helping a part of the North African country innovate to weather the effects of a changing climate
Greening South America, one business at a time
A look at how small and medium-sized businesses on the continent are starting to play a bigger role in environmental sustainability
How evaluating an educational program that helps women in India empower themselves could help ensure its future
Exploring ways to get fish on the table in Bolivia
How the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences is helping shape the continent's future
Defusing the rumour mill, digitally
The text-messaging technology that's helping quash misinformation and save lives in Kenya
How solar-powered water pumps are helping Pakistani farmers adjust to climate change
How one organization is using the law to improve maternal and child health in Uganda
