Through the Ethical Fashion Initiative, African women artisans in rural communities lend their desirable and unique talent to high-end fashion designers. >

Using a computer algorithm to generate a unique code, SnooCode is a simple and effective solution for the lack of formal addresses in Ghana. >

Something as simple as tableware could ease the everyday troubles of Alzheimer's patients. >

Myanmese artist and former political prisoner Htein Lin aims to cast the hands of 1000 political prisoners in plaster of Paris as a reminder of Myanmar's past. >

Refugees Welcome is a Berlin-based non profit that connects displaced refugees to citizens with spare rooms in European cities. >

Activist photographer Masixole Feni has won the Ernst Cole award for his images, which show that inadequate sanitation robs people of their dignity. >

The communist island of Cuba uses biofuel from sugarcane in order to meet its energy demands. >

Matibabu is a smartphone application that tests for malaria without the need for blood samples and laboratories. >

Vidhi Mehta posits that Post/Biotics can establish a global database that will help scientists find substances that could hold the potential for new antibiotics >