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About 700 million people in the world live below the international poverty line of $1.90 a day, with spotty access to electricity, sanitation and health care. These are the people whose lives could be improved most by the application of science and technology — yet they have been largely ignored by private sector innovation.
This session, held Oct. 28, 2017 in San Francisco as part of the 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, presented three experts’ perspectives on an emerging approach to harness privately funded science and invention to create affordable, appropriate technologies that help the poorest people boost their health, incomes and standards of living. The speakers described lessons learned from funding, inventing and reporting on such technologies.
About 700 million people in the world live below the international poverty line of $1.90 a day, with spotty access to electricity, sanitation and health care. These are the people whose lives could be improved most by the application of science and technology — yet they have been largely ignored by private sector innovation.
This session, held Oct. 28, 2017 in San Francisco as part of the 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, presented three experts’ perspectives on an emerging approach to harness privately funded science and invention to create affordable, appropriate technologies that help the poorest people boost their health, incomes and standards of living. The speakers described lessons learned from funding, inventing and reporting on such technologies.
