Maker Faire Africa (MFA), a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and invention, will take place August 14-16 at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Ghana's capital, Accra. This event is free to the general public.

A few months from now, a highly contagious disease will spread through a Japanese school. Several unwitting children will infect others as they attend classes and wander the halls.

The Capacity Project, funded by USAID and led by IntraHealth, has developed the iHRIS Suite of three Open Source core software solutions, each addressing a specific Human Resources for Health (HRH) leadership issue.

On May 26, the Global Development Commons team participated in the inagural meeting of the IntraHealth OPEN Council-- a team of advocates for building capacity in African healthcare workforces and systems through

Check out how communications technology enables participation,  empowers individuals and promotes democracy around the world in the latest edition of Perspectives.  This issue features stories on how technology is changing the face of elections in Egypt, an accounting of the pros and cons of participation from Francis Fukuyama, and an Op-Ed about promoting democracy through p

After trekking to New York City for MobileActive’s last Mobile Technology for Social Change (M4Change) event, I was thrilled to take the metro down to Google’s DC offices for last week’s M4Change barcamp.

Mobile technologies and devices are changing aware that governments do business. m-GovWorld aims to accelerate the development and deployment of new mobile applications to enhance democracy and increase the reach of public services to previously unconnected regional areas.

At a conference last week, I had the pleasure of meeting with Jeff Seabright, Coca-Cola’s Vice President for Environment and Water. He spoke about the company’s policy to reach a water neutral footprint. In other words, for every liter of water Coke extracts from aquifers, it will take action to replenish the earth’s water supply. In some areas, the company is planting trees; in other communities, it is providing drip irrigation to farmers who otherwise would use flood irrigation to water their crops.

For those of you not familiar with Makers Faire, its the largest festival devoted to DIY culture and technology in the country showcasing individual creativity and grassroots innovation... Innovation is a key catalyst for economic recovery, yet some find it elusive. As Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for HP’s Personal Systems Group, Phil McKinney sees daily examples of the breadth of human ingenuity to solve social, economic, political and even technical challenges...One example that he will share is the turning points in his own R&D team’s journey to identify and create a whole new way for computers to interact with the world’s population -- ways that involve natural human expression with nary a keyboard or mouse in sight.