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With Google as an indispensable tool omnipresent in everyday life, it’s easy to feel like we have all the information...
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Amidst the mohawks and psychedelic shop fronts of London’s infamous Camden Town, the legendary Roundhouse boasts a rock’n’roll heritage stretching...
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As far as daunting projects go they don’t come much bigger than overhauling one of the worst performing schools in...
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The Human Rights Foundation is a small operation with an annual budget of $3.9 million, yet it has chosen to...
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Skateistan started in Afghanistan as a "crazy idea" to use skateboarding for empowerment. Now it's opening a fifth school, so more...
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In just under three years M-KOPA Solar has provided affordable energy to over 200,000 homes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda....
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The self-published DIY ‘zine’ has always been the domain of those in search of alternatives. Its DIY nature eschews the...
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In 2005, Stockholm-based philanthropist Hans Rosling predicted that differentiating between hard data and opinion would be one of the digital...
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Most societies still attach some form of stigma to periods. Though female education has long been recognised as a fundamental...
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In the world’s most northern orphanage on the heart-shaped little Arctic island of Uummannaq, Greenlandic kids used to enjoy weekends...
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"It is our responsibility to enable every young person to make to learn and learn to make," says David Sengeh, Global...
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As we power forward into the future, many institutions have struggled to keep up. While education has changed the least...
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By 2030, Africa will have the world's largest working population, but few Africans currently have the technical and product development...
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Today’s highly competitive job market in the UK can make knowing which career path to follow difficult, so gap years...
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Technovation Challenge is an annual global technology entrepreneurship competition (currently held in 64 countries) for girls aged 10-18, helping them...
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In India the Sundara Fund project has produced over 8,000 bars of soap and impacted more than 6,000 lives. The...
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Scallops with cultured caviar to start, followed by a stem cell pork shoulder, and a delicious beef-berry tart for dessert...
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SMS text messages are improving the lives of mothers-to-be and their newborns in Cameroon. The first mobile health platform in...
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Launched in September 2014, the aim of Programá tu Futuro (Programme Your Future) is to enable schoolchildren over the age...
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To give it its full – if unwieldy – title, the Núcleo de Empreendedorismo da USP (Entrepreneurship Nucleus of the University of São...
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São Paulo’s women say enough and team up to map catcalling. Chega de Fiu Fiu, which translates into English...
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A new model for democratising software education is forcing top French universities to rethink accessible training. Conceived by a multi-billionaire...
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An Indian NGO in New Delhi has created a locally generated digital database of thousands of videos to teach agricultural...
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Today there is more content out there than ever, but digital doesn’t necessarily equal accessible. Millions of people worldwide suffer...
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Commercial trawling of the area just above the ocean floor, known as the benthic zone, is one of the biggest...
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