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Horizon International Announces Partnership with Global Innovation Exchange

Horizon International announces Partnership with the Global Innovation Exchange, “a global online marketplace for innovations, funding, insights, resources and conversations, allowing the world to better work together to address humanity’s greatest challenges.”  The Exchange is providing summaries of resources from Horizon’s Solutions Site with links to the full articles and case studies.  The founding partners include the U.S. Global Development Lab at USAID and the world’s leading donors, foundations, universities, research organizations, non-governmental organizations, and news media. View a comprehensive and growing list of partners.


Thu, 01/21/2016 - 11:43 — admin

Food Force: The First Humanitarian Video Game Updated and Free to Download

The World Food Program’s (WPG’s) video game Food Force invites children, and people of all ages, to complete six virtual missions that reflect real-life obstacles faced by WFP in its emergency responses both to the tsunami and other hunger crises around the world.

 


Sat, 03/03/2012 - 11:36 — admin

Mobile Phone Innovation to Test Water Quality Wins Stockholm Junior Water Prize

Alison Bick has developed a low-cost portable method to test water quality using a mobile phone.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 17:53 — admin

Researchers make Breakthrough in Creating Gasoline from Plant Matter

Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of "green gasoline," a liquid identical to standard gasoline yet created from sustainable biomass sources like switchgrass and poplar trees.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 14:24 — admin

Remarkable New Shirt Harvests Energy from Wearer's Movement

Nanotechnology researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing a shirt that harvests energy from the wearer's physical motion and converts it into electricity for powering small electronic devices worn by soldiers in the field, hikers and other users.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 14:12 — admin

Record-breaking Methane Storage System Derived From Corncobs May Encourage Mass-market Natural Gas Automobiles

Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City have developed a method to convert corncob waste into a carbon "sponge" with nanoscale pores.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 13:29 — admin

You Still Can't Drink the Water, But Now You Can Touch It

Engineers have developed a system that uses a simple water purification technique that can eliminate 100 percent of the microbes in New Orleans water samples left from Hurricane Katrina. The technique makes use of specialized resins, copper and hydrogen peroxide to purify tainted water.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 13:24 — admin

Cell Phones Being Made with Less Dangerous Chemicals

Cellular telephones that contain toxic chemicals are still being sold in Latin America and other developing regions. But thanks to strict European regulations, there are progressively fewer phones being made with cadmium, lead and other dangerous materials.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 13:22 — admin

“Food Force” World's Leading Humanitarian Video Game Reaches Four Million: Available As Free Internet Download

Twelve months after its launch, the world’s first humanitarian video game about hunger is being celebrated as an unprecedented success story.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 12:50 — admin

United Nations Agency to Back One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project to Distribute $100 Laptops

Aiming to give poor communities access to the benefits of information technology, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced plans to support an innovative project which aims to put cheap and energy-efficient laptop computers in the hands of the world's most disadvantaged students.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 11:03 — admin

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