Education: Ten weeks to save the world

Ten Lessons for ICT and Education in the Developing World

World Links for Development Program The World Bank Institute T skills to productively transform knowledge and information into innovative products and services will define successful knowledge economies. Because knowledge and information have become the most important currency for productivity, competitiveness, and increased wealth and prosperity, nations have placed greater priority on develop...

Ten Weeks with Chinese Bandits

We, wondered when we opened this book why it should be sent to a medical journal for review. Then we found ourselves looking at its beautiful photographs, then the story seized our attention, and we did not lay the book down until it was finished. And as we closed it, we realised that it is eminently a book for review by a medical journal, for the medical problems of China with which it so larg...

Stop the beef eaters, save the world.

So You Think You Want to Save the World

There is increasing interest among both medical and other professional communities in becoming involved in global health, development, and other charitable work. There has also been a proliferation of opportunities in the field. Nonetheless, it is still difficult to find practical information on the daily realities of development work or advice on the difficulties inherent to this type of work....

Will Eco-aware Objects Help to Save the World?

Our society wastes much more energy than needed. The inadequate use that humans perform on electrical devices is one key reason for this energy waste. The presented paper aims to prove that embedding intelligence within everyday objects is valuable to reduce the portion of unnecessary consumed energy which is due to human misusing. To such extend, we have augmented a capsule-based coffee machin...