Unicef Is Funding Blockchain And Health Tech To Solve The World’s Biggest Problems

The United Nations has announced the first five startups to receive investment through its $9 million (£7.2m) innovation fund. UNICEF, the UN's children's charity, wi...

For Google's Cloud, 18 Minutes Of Downtime Is An Eternity

On Monday night, Google's Compute Engine went dark for 18 minutes. The Engine itself was whirring away just fine, but incoming internet traffic to its servers was misrouted...

Reimagining the future for EVERY child | UNICEF

Innovation can come from anyone, anywhere. Fueled by creativity, connectivity and collaboration, new ways of thinking are shaping a future that can, and should, advance the...

Harnessing The Data Revolution And Improving Land Management Through Geospatial Technology

Advances in earth observation, computing power, and connectivity have tremendous potential to help governments, and us at the World Bank, support better land management, an...

Motorbike Ambulance, A Boon For Tribals In Naxal Belt

Virtually cut-off from the modern world, tribals living in inaccessible terrain and dense forests of Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Narayanpur district never imagined that t...

Netflix Set To Tap Bollywood-Mad India In Pursuit Of Global Viewers

Netflix Inc’s global expansion is set to reach movie-mad India, industry executives said, where high-speed Internet connectivity is rapidly spreading among a vast pop...

Initiating A Dialogue Toward Inclusive Identities

“When was the first time you realised that you were a boy or a girl?”
This was one of the initial questions asked to ten year ol...

Top 5 New Media/Web Platforms For Change

I recently read an article by Sean Parker, the founder president of Facebook and the man behind the revolutionary Napster,that took the music world by storm, speaking about...

Techno-Visionaries And The Philosopher’s Stone

“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”

– Kurt Vonnegut Read More