Read the latest edition of USAID’s FrontLines to learn more about how the Agency is engaging youth around the world and how it is embracing mobile technology. Some highlights: Looking to young minds for new ideas to old development challenges is producing fresh solutions. Just ask the young woman who is helping save newborns in [...]
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Technology Partnerships set Young Kenyans up for Academic Success
The classes were very quiet as we entered; students were all glued to their laptops, barely noticing us entering their classroom. Read more >>
Photo of the Week: Secretary Clinton in Egypt
During her visit to Egypt, Secretary Clinton views a demonstration of educational software developed by Games Bond. Read more >>
How Cell Phones Are Empowering Women in the Developing World
This blog originally appeared on the Million Moms Challenge blog. As a mom, you’re likely to already understand the usefulness of a cell phone – from the convenience of your partner letting you know they’ll be late for dinner to the peace of mind that comes from ensuring your kids are safe and easy to find. Whereas [...]
Can you hear her now? Putting mobile phones in women’s hands
In the late 1970′s one of the major findings on Madison Avenue, (then the world capital of advertising) was that women control over 80% of all consumer purchases in the U.S. This ‘shocking discovery’ changed who and how companies marketed their products. I was just entering the workforce then and thought, ‘ how in the [...]
USAID and Partners Kick Off LAUNCH: Energy
There is something incredibly powerful about working alongside innovators and entrepreneurs who are on the brink of deploying products and technologies with the potential to solve longstanding development problems. As USAID and our partners prepare to kick off the LAUNCH: Energy Forum this Friday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, we are eagerly awaiting [...]
Calling All Energy Innovators! USAID and Partners Issue “LAUNCH: Energy” Challenge
USAID and its partners in the LAUNCH program (NASA, the State Department, and NIKE, Inc.) have issued our LAUNCH: Energy challenge statement, formally beginning the third module of the LAUNCH program. While previous program modules in 2010 and early 2011 focused on water and health, in this module LAUNCH is searching for entrepreneurial efforts focused [...]
PEPFAR/USAID Kicks off Webinar Series to Strengthen the Social Welfare Workforce
On July 14, over 100 people from 18 countries logged on for our first ever Social Service Workforce Strengthening webinar! The webinar session entitled, “Lessons Learned from the Global Healthcare Workforce,” kicked off the first in a series of webinars intended to encourage the sharing of information, expertise and promising practices for addressing the needs [...]
New Partnership to Strengthen Mobile Health Programs for Moms
Appeared in the White House Science & Technology Policy Blog By: Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Kudos to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, USAID Administrator Raj Shah, Johnson & Johnson CEO William Weldon, and their colleagues at the United Nations Foundation, the mHealth Alliance, and BabyCenter on the launch of the Mobile Alliance for [...]
