“Excuse me. May I use your toilet?” Despite my not being a paying customer, the restaurant owner directed me toward a doorway at the back of the building. Through the doo...
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In 2000, the UN General Assembly committed to Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7C: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe dr...
When you imagine the future of food, it’s easy to envision a world of driverless tractors, vertical urban gardens, and genetically modified organisms. Or perhaps you’ve a...
This was an exciting year for The New Global Citizen! We featured stories of innovative impact from exciting places around the world, like Brazil, Zambia, Vietnam, Uganda...
This is part two of the New Global Citizen’s coverage of the 2014 Net Impact Conference, “Breaking Boundaries,” held in Minneapolis, Minnesota in November 2014. The confe...
This is part one of the New Global Citizen’s coverage of the 2014 Net Impact Conference, “Breaking Boundaries,” held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The conference convened im...
This is part one of the Microsoft 4Afrika series on bridging the digital divide in Africa. The $70 million initiative is designed to help improve Africa’s global co...