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African Development




  • African Development, Energy, Health

    Earth Day and Bill Gates

    04.23.10 | Permalink | Comment?

    On Wednesday, Bill Gates gave a speech at Sanders Theatre at Harvard, urging the nation’s brightest students to tackle the most challenging issues facing the world.  Though I wasn’t able to see the talk–I am currently studying at Cambridge on a scholarship founded by the Gates Trust–the ideals he spoke of resonate.  At Lebone, we [...]

  • African Development, Lebone, Microbial Fuel Cells

    Anniversaries

    03.22.10 | Permalink | Comment?

    There are some important events which deserve to be remembered.  Today is the 20th anniversary of the independence of Namibia–one of the very last African states to gain self-determination.  Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first president of the country on March 21, 1990 by the UN secretary-general, with Nelson Mandela and 19 other [...]

  • African Development, Press

    Lebone in Long Beach!

    02.21.10 | Permalink | Comment?

    Hugo, and by extension team Lebone, was recently honoured as a TED2010 Fellow for innovative work in Africa and interdisciplinary work at The Laboratory at Harvard!
    It was an amazing opportunity for our team to connect with many TEDsters, amazing artists, and award-winning scientists. We were particularly excited to meet other TED fellows working in Africa.
    Erik [...]

  • African Development

    Revisiting Five Rand

    02.04.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

    The Lebone team is incredibly lucky to be able to work with talented and dedicated individuals based in our target locations.  One of these is Justy Ndaambe, who has been enormously valuable to the project since we last June, when we were first introduced.  She is trained as an electrical engineer, but has also been [...]

  • African Development, Developing World Technologies, Energy, Microbial Fuel Cells

    Lebone + Popular Mechanics

    10.12.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

    Lebone was named one of the 10 Most Brilliant Innovations of 2009 by Popular Mechanics! We are very honored and humbled to be a part of this remarkable community of innovators.
    Just being in the same room as the other award winners (please read more about their truly remarkable work) is an experience that we will [...]

  • African Development, Developing World Technologies, Microbial Fuel Cells

    Lebone + WorldBank

    05.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

    Lebônê won a $200,000 grant from the World Bank! Two Lebônê team members presented our proposal to an international jury panel in Accra, Ghana, and we were selected as a grant recipient. This is very exciting news and we are incredibly grateful to the World Bank, IFC, and all the other Lighting Africa participants.