An Invention with a Social Cause: Bangladeshi Scientist Develops Water Filter to Fight the Arsenic Menace   |   Aug 30, 2017

Background

The supply of pure drinking water from groundwater sources to at least 97 percent of …

A Tree and Traditional Knowledge: A Recipe for Development   |   Aug 14, 2017

Background

Found throughout southern Africa, the marula tree (sclerocary birrea) has been used by humans for …

A Strong Name Half a Century in the Making   |   Jul 31, 2017

Background

While working at the French Labbe Rubber Company in Viet Nam in 1954, Mr. Nguyen …

A Remote Solution for a Global Opportunity   |   Jul 18, 2017

iTwin, Singapore

One morning in August 2007, Mr. Anantharaman Lakshminarayanan (Lux for short), copied some of …

A Preserve for Development   |   Jun 30, 2017

Background

Having been brought up in a poor family in a small village in Mauritania where …