Gender equality? It starts with data
Mark Suzman, Chief Strategy Officer and President of Global Policy and Advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, explores how investment in data can help drive gender equality.
Mark Suzman, Chief Strategy Officer and President of Global Policy and Advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, explores how investment in data can help drive gender equality.
New types of tech are ushering in a more sustainable world – and these five are leading the way.
Just 23% of refugee adolescents are enrolled in secondary school, compared to 84% globally. And as they get older, the obstacles increase.
If we do not want to give up the benefits of digitization, then cyber risks are here to stay.
The for-benefit sector is developing its own, unique operating system that could change how business, governments and non-profits work and address the world's biggest problems.
On International Literacy Day, we hear from an online learning platform outside Arusha, where people from all walks of life are coming to claim an education.
What are the technologies that will play a role in the humanitarian system in the next 15 years – what is an optimistic scenario for their use and what might be some of the unintended con...
An influx of investment from states and start-ups requires new regulation and oversight of space technologies.
Here's how countries can achieve the sustainable development goals by 2030.
Two years on from its creation, the BRICS Development Bank has firmly graduated out of its start-up phase.
Refugees camps often mean despair. But the right technology can turn them into places of hope and self-sufficiency.
Vincent Chin looks at the results of research that highlights the impact of inequality on well-being.
But as time goes by, concerns that this incident could mark the beginning of a longer term downward trend in Sino-Indian relations are rising.
A new era has arrived, one where we can harness biological organisms to create consumer materials that grow themselves.
Middle-skilled jobs will be hit the hardest and opportunities will be unequal at first. So how can we prepare for these changes to the world of work?