WaterHackathon Cairo: Unusual partners for collaborative solutions
How could the World Bank engage and bring together Egypt’s technology community with water specialists to solve the country’s most pressing water and sanitation challenges? This past October, Cairo...
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It has been a year since WaterHackathon Cairo took place, bringing together Egyptian technologists with water specialists to brainstorm innovative ICT solutions for Egypt’s biggest water...
View ArticleNegawatt in the making: Ghanaians host the first energy efficiency Challenge
Challenge participants at the Negawatt Weekend kickoff on March 14.Photo: Alison Roadburg As a rapidly urbanizing capital, Accra, Ghana has been experiencing increased economic activity, coupled with...
View ArticleFlexibility, opportunity and inclusion through online outsourcing jobs
What is online outsourcing, and how could countries leverage it to create new jobs for youth and women? Those are questions we will help answer as part of an upcoming report and toolkit. The World...
View ArticleCan we shift waste to value through 3D printing in Tanzania?
A waste collection site in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Photo: Cecilia Paradi-Guilford Plastic waste, in particular PET, which is typically found in soda bottles, is becoming abundant in African cities....
View ArticleHow coding bootcamps are helping to tackle youth unemployment
Photo Credit: RutaN The International Labour Organization estimates that 73.4 million people aged 15-24 do not have a job (43% of global youth), and three times as many young people are...
View ArticleCan recycled 3D printing filament lead to a successful social venture?
3D printing filament from PET plastic, ReFabDar The World Bank recently launched the ReFabDar initiative together with COSTECH and the Ethical Filament Foundation to test the opportunity of turning...
View ArticleCorporate Innovation 2.0: How companies are creating new products and...
Explaining the idea factory through Legos at the Strengthening Lebanon’s Mobile Internet Ecosystem workshops. Photo by Shamir Vasdev / World Bank The corporate world is at the forefront of the...
View ArticleWomen wavemakers: Practical strategies for closing the gender gap in tech
© Andela Kenya “Degrees get you the job, but they don’t help you to keep it.” Virginia Ndung’u, a trainee at Nairobi’s software developer accelerator Moringa School highlights one of the many...
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