Communities around the world now have access to a free weather information system that will help avert major disasters by providing warnings of impending extreme weather events. The system, implemented by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), will also assist in water management, food security, and health issues. The WMO Information System (WIS), will make accessible [...]
UN Global Pulse presentation at the United Nations with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon | Photo by Laurent Y. Peter | MediaGlobal See UN Global Pulse -Pulse Lab( Jakarta | Kampala) presentation video below The words tech start-up, international development and the United Nations are rarely uttered in the same sentence, but Global Pulse, the Office of [...]
The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum is hosting an exhibition at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The exhibition showcases how design solutions can alleviate the rapid growth of populations in informal settlements, often referred to as “slums” or “squatter settlements.” The exhibition features 60 projects that will be put into effect around the world, [...]
Mobile technology is changing the world in profound and unimaginable ways. In the developing world, mobile phones present an opportunity to bypass costly infrastructure required for installing landlines, making long distance communication not only easy, but cheap. In Kenya, mobile technology is allowing those without access to traditional banking an easy and efficient way of [...]
Clean cook stoves are helping to decrease the use of fuel wood and promote the sustainability of local resources. These stoves use 50 to 70 percent less fuel, usually in the form of wood or charcoal, the primary sources of energy for many impoverished people in the world.
“The Ring of Fire” is a 25,000-mile hotbed of seismic activity stretching north from New Zealand through East Asia and then returning south down the coasts of the Americas. Host to 90 percent of the world’s seismic activity and over 81 percent of the world’s most devastating earthquakes, this horseshoe-shaped area has shaken the countries [...]
Imagine the day when time has run out to decrease carbon emissions. We find ourselves in a world where the temperature has risen upwards of 7 degrees Celsius. It is a world where both New York City and Bangladesh are under water, a world where category five hurricanes ravage unsuspecting coastlines, and drought pushes millions more people into starvation.
2 January 2, 2011 [MediaGlobal] In 1804, Robert Thom perfected the first water treatment facility in Scotland using slow sand filtration. 200 years later, a simplified version of this process, designed to be both sustainable and affordable, is making its way to the developing world. In 2005, AguaClara, a student-based research team within the Cornell [...]
On the African continent, one out of every three people suffers from malnourishment. Many African governments believe selling land to agribusinesses is one way to help those living in poverty and feed people who are unable to get food. Agribusinesses combine investment banks, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds to buy farmable land, produce seeds [...]
As hunger cuts deeper through the divides of urban poverty and human rights in sub-Saharan Africa, innovations in urban agriculture hold promising solutions.
“There is increasing recognition of the urbanization of the world and the role that urban and peri-urban agriculture plays to provide food supplies for the population that is most vulnerable in cities,” Daniel Gustafson, Director of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Liaison Office for North America told MediaGlobal.
In a bid to increase awareness of the challenges facing the world’s poorest countries, the United Nations has partnered with MediaGlobal to assist newspaper editors, broadcasters, and owners of media companies in advancing human development by featuring stories that raise international awareness of issues of poverty, disease, and hunger in the most vulnerable countries.
The Global Media Compact aims to assist newspaper editors, broadcasters, and owners of media companies in advancing human development by featuring stories that raise international awareness of issues of poverty, disease, and hunger in the most vulnerable countries in Africa. READ MORE
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