Kiva, Vittana Partner to Crowdfund Loans for Students in Developing Nations San Francisco-based Vittana.org, an organization that helps students, is asking Kiva.org’s community of donors to give $25 or more to help a student pay for college or university and secure a job after graduation. Are Interactive Toys Interfering With Child Development? Interactive toys like […]
Digital Pen Helps Africa Fight Livestock Disease
Posted February 21st, 2014 at 1:30 pm (UTC-4)
It began in southern Africa in 2007, when Philip Fong, FAO‘s Regional Data and Information Officer in Nairobi, Kenya turned to technology to help African countries cope with livestock diseases. What he found was that existing disease information and surveillance systems were inadequate. Officers in the field were unable to get their collected data to […]
Tech Sightings, February 18, 2014
Posted February 18th, 2014 at 4:12 pm (UTC-4)
Africa: Toilets, Trash and Social Status – the Top 10 Emergency Hygiene Challenges A 2013 survey features the most urgent needs in emergency water, sanitation and hygiene promotion services in Africa presented by more than 900 beneficiaries. Food Tech Startup Gobbles Up $23 million in Funding Up to $30 million has been invested in Hampton […]
Philips Shines Light on Vietnam’s Iconic Dragon Bridge
Posted February 14th, 2014 at 4:50 pm (UTC-4)
If you thought dragons – those fearsome creatures of myth and legend – only come to life in video games – you’d be mistaken. Allow me to enlighten you. Every night, a fire-spewing, water-spraying, 568 meter-long dragon, with an 18-meter-wide head and a 19.73 meters wide tail comes to life in Da Nang, a city […]
Tech Sightings, February 13, 2014
Posted February 13th, 2014 at 2:21 pm (UTC-4)
Humans Account for Less Than 40% of Global Web Traffic A recent report from cloud-based application delivery platform Incapsula says less than 40% of global web traffic comes from humans. And 31% of traffic comes from search engines and bots. Apple Says Supplies Don’t Come From War Zones Apple’s annual audit of contract workers who […]
Tech Sightings, February 12, 2014
Posted February 12th, 2014 at 3:20 pm (UTC-4)
Microsoft Denies Accusations of Censorship on Bing Outside China According to a China-based freedom of speech advocacy blog, Bing has been filtering out English and Chinese search results for politically-sensitive terms – a charge Microsoft denies. Japan Sees Record 12.8 Billion Cyberattacks Japan’s state-run National Institute of Information and Communications Technology reports that cyberattacks originating […]
Tech Sightings, February 11, 2014
Posted February 11th, 2014 at 4:17 pm (UTC-4)
Online Clues Located North Korea’s Missile-Launcher Factories It’s not really a spy job .A team of researchers using freely available open-source information have been able to pinpoint two North Korean factories where some of the country’s mobile missile launchers are assembled. Mobile World Children? Camp Brings Kids to MWC 2014 Forty kids between the ages […]