http://www.lebone.org Dirt-Power Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:30:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.lebone.org/2010/04/23/earth-day-and-bill-gates/ 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 ... http://www.lebone.org/2010/03/22/anniversaries/ 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 ... http://www.lebone.org/2010/02/21/lebone-in-long-beach/ 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 ... http://www.lebone.org/2010/02/04/revisiting-five-rand/ Lebone members Aviva and Hugo recently returned from Camden, Maine where they were honoured and took part in a wonderful week-long "change agent" program as Pop!Tech 2009 Social Innovation Fellows. It was a real privilege to take some time off and learn alongside accomplished social entrepreneurs and thought leaders, specifically ... http://www.lebone.org/2009/12/10/lebone-in-maine/ 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 ... http://www.lebone.org/2009/10/12/lebone-popular-mechanics/ 13.06.09 Lebone + OLPCorps Lebone is excited and honoured to join the inaugural Africa OLPCorps. We decided to join the summer OLPCorps program because we share a similar vision for using technology to unleash the potential of the emerging world, specifically Africa. The OLPCorps program, launched last week with President Kagame of ... http://www.lebone.org/2009/06/13/lebone-olpcorps/ We are very grateful to the MIT IDEAS competition for awarding Lebone with the Muhammad Yunus Innovation Challenge to Alleviate Poverty award at last night's award ceremony. We look forward to a brief retreat later in May with the other winners to develop practical skills before we apply the ... http://www.lebone.org/2009/05/05/lebone-mit-ideas/ Members of the Lebone team recently traveled to Dublin, Ireland courtesy of the new and exciting Science Gallery and its Lightwave Exhibit to install an exhibit and raise awareness. We were fortunate enough to give a small talk about Africa and the enormous energy and lighting crises. It was a great ... http://www.lebone.org/2009/03/28/lebone-in-ireland/ The New York Times published a great article on Lebônê in Tuesday's Giving Section. Overall, we're really pleased with how it turned out. Also in the Giving Section: an article about NetHelp, a very cool solar-powered internet-hookup for aid workers in disaster areas. Why limit this to aidworkers, though? Why ... http://www.lebone.org/2008/11/13/lebone-in-the-new-york-times/