For 17 months between 2014 and 2016, Tara Ramanathan spent a lot of time looking at a dashboard on her tablet, watching for incoming data updates. She and her colleagues at Nexleaf Analytics—a non-profit technology company that develops public health and environmental data analysis tools—had been engaged as…
Not many engineers get to include writing folklore as part of their job descriptions. It certainly was not something Alexander Eaton expected to do when he and his business partner, Camilo Pages, launched their own line of biodigesters in Mexico in 2007. But the small family farmers Eaton and Pages…
Earning a living was difficult in rural Myanmar before Proximity Designs showed up. Most of the 53 million people living in the Southeast Asian country depend on the agriculture sector for their livelihoods, but small farmers—those cultivating less than a hectare of land—cannot find easy help to do…
At 11:56 AM on April 25, 2015, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the Nepalese district of Gorkha, 80 kilometers northwest of the capital, Kathmandu, sending shocks through Nepal’s Central Region and Kathmandu Valley. Powerful tremors continued for weeks after, shutting down power, cell towers, roads and stalling badly…
