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Robotics Competition
Featured Development, Headline-General, LAC-Tech

Haitian Students Robotics Competition – Donate

This competition is organized by EMO-Haiti. The yearly Robotics Challenge is designed to enhance students’ career development through STEM and team building. Teams of students design and build robots to address different issues face the Haitian society. The program is open to High School and first-year University students. Given the right opportunities, Haitian students can…

Third world country
Featured Development, Global-Development

Need for less aid, and more creative entrepreneurship in third world countries.

In his famous TED talk “Plutocrats, Pitchforks are coming”, the venture capitalist Nick Hanauer says “Capitalism awards problem solvers. That’s why the system works”. The system incentivizes creating solutions to a society’s problems. Developing the third-world countries must follow a similar approach. The challenges these countries face are not different from those more developed economies…

Featured Development

We owe it to future of mankind to stop screwing poor countries.

The famous English mathematician Godfrey Herold Hardy (G. H. Hardy) once received an unexpected package from India at his Cambridge University address in England. Inside the package was a letter and some groundbreaking mathematical theorems and proofs. The package was from then 26 year old Srinivasa Ramanujan. In his early teens Ramanujan managed to master…

Diaspora
Global-Development, Headline-General

The diaspora is crucial to development of the third world

One often meets people in the diaspora who, at some point, had every intention of going back to their country of origin.  They wanted to start a business, create an organization or just get involve in politics.  Then life happens; they start families, taking on long-term debts.  Therefore they end up embracing the fact these…

Third world country
Featured Development, Global-Development

Five ways to better contribute to development of third world countries.

Most people from third world countries dream of a time when they can brag about the progress of their country of origin, a time when building a life of success no longer means having to leave the country for a foreign land.  The diaspora itself will have to play a crucial role in turning this…

Featured Development, LAC-Development

Five reasons why you should consider doing business in the Caribbean

The Caribbean Region represents a market of about 24 million people who collectively import over $18.5 billion of U.S. goods. As a result, the region is the 3rd largest export market for U.S. manufactured goods in Latin America, behind Mexico and Brazil. Beside being the 3rd largest US export market in the region, below are a…

Ivory Coast Economy
Africa-Development, Africa-Policy

Ivory Coast, on Track to Becoming an Emerging Economy

The Sixth Economic Update for Ivory Coast (Cote D’Ivoire) notes the undeniable performance of the Ivoirian economy, but also points out the urgent need to work on certain aspects. The main needs are to encourage greater private sector participation and to improve public finance management, especially in education and health. Ivory Coast economic growth remains…

micro-lending Startup QuickCheck
Africa-Development, Africa-Tech, Featured Development

Nigerian micro-lending Startup QuickCheck uses machine learning to credit-score borrowers

In a bid to increase access to credit across the country, Nigerian micro-lending startup QuickCheck is using machine learning to credit-score borrowers. Launched in July of last year, QuickCheck has developed a fully automated online platform that, based on algorithmic correlation, can disburse loans within seconds. The probability of default is estimated based on details…

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