Tag: Tech
The Condom Challenge: Bill Gates is giving away $100,000 to anyone that can revolutionise the condom
Yes, you read correctly. Bill Gates, through the Gates Foundation, and Grand Challenges in Global Health are calling all scientists, students, entrepreneurs and innovators and challenging them to come up with ideas to make wearing a condom (male or female)
No joke: African teens create urine-fueled generator.
The days where people could say there was no innovation coming out of Africa is truly a time of the past. Not only is Africa pioneering some of the most impressive mobile banking systems in the world, but now it
Compassionpit.com: The website that provides therapy for free.
How many of you remember the good old days of general chat rooms, where you’d chat with random people in a communal chat room? For those of you that can’t, this was a time when the internet was still relatively
Redefining Technology in Africa
Africa is the hottest date in town. Not a day goes by without me receiving an email about technology in Africa. NGOs, venture capitalists, wannabe investors, donors or technology providers from the US, UK, and Asia are all looking to
The Secret to the Perfect Facebook Post
Small businesses that use Facebook to get the word out and promote their companies should check out a new report from Buddy Media, a social ad-management software provider. The report is drawn from the company’s analysis of 200 clients’ Facebook posts over a two-week period,
Security breech at Dropbox
Yes, you read right. Some clever hackers broke through Dropbox’s security and started sending random emails to to dropbox users using Dropbox email addresses. Sounds minor right? Yet, its just another reminder that no matter what internet companies would like
Essential Ingredients for the Ghanaian Campaign Trail
Ghanaians have two favourite pastimes; football and politics. Just as one former Black star coach lamented that Ghana is a nation of over 20 million coaches, one can safely say Ghana is also a nation of over 20 million political
Social Media for Social Change
Written by Michael Annor Take a moment to think about each time a television broadcast has been interrupted for a commercial. It might have felt like a disturbance, but whichever way you look at it, it still captured your attention;
Is Google+ worth your time?
Written by Crystal Svanikier This is a question we’ve been asking ourselves here at Dust.From Facebook, to Twitter, to Scribd, to Paper.li… we could go on and on. Social media is making it much easier for those of us connected
Green Gold (Ghana edition)
In a modern world where populations are expanding into simultaneously shrinking global resources, it is almost inevitable that innovation and necessity will merge to produce very alternatives. In simple English, it is sometimes in our most turbulent moments that we
