Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 31, 2004

I'm working from Maputo, Mozambique on this U.S. Memorial Day. Today I've been talking to humanitarian demining groups about our proposed mine detector. Last week in South Africa I was discussing adaptive technology for the blind and software for human rights groups.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2004

I am just back from the Africa Economic Summit in Mozambique. I was very impressed with President Chissano, the former Marxist revolutionary who is stepping down next year after leading his country for 18 years. His embrace of business development, reform, and advancing the interests of his people made quite an impression on me.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 20, 2004

I was interested enough in learning more to take off for a tour of facilities in Maputo the next afternoon, hosted by the Catholic Community of Saint'Egidio , a group well known for having helped broker the peace settlement in Mozambique more than a decade ago. A dispensary full of generic versions of drugs (which aren't generic in the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 20, 2004

Earlier this year, I remember buying roasted cashews from a woman on the street in Maputo, Mozambique, who had her wares balanced on her head. My takeaway is something that many people has pointed out: that the cell phone has become an incredible engine of change for the poor.

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2009

The five panelists will include Robert Zoellick, President of The World Bank Group, Luísa Dias Diogo, Prime Minister of Mozambique, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Germany?s s Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, and activist Bob Geldof.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Cyclone Idai struck Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, causing widespread flood destruction. Hurricane Dorian caused catastrophic damage in the Bahamas and parts of the eastern United States. Wildfires plagued the Amazon, California and Australia.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

She says: “I like to reach communities that we haven’t reached before in the developing world like what we’re doing to bridge the digital divide with the Aga Khan Development Network in Mozambique. I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia.

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