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India: Union Housing Minister on how to rectify urban housing

Recognizing a failure of efforts in rehabilitating the urban poor using means like FSI, the Union Minister for Housing, Ajay Maken today announced the need for the revising of the surface index and land use norms in large cities to develop efficient low cost housing solutions for the poor. Read […]

February 19, 2013

Housing, Urban Renewal and Socio-Spatial Integration

This report by the Architecture and the Built Environment, available on purchase addresses two issues regarding housing in China: housing and urban renewal. Read more or purchase, here.

February 19, 2013

The 4 policies that can rid Mumbai of its housing problems

Mumbai has one of the largest slums in the world. Donor organizations and state agencies alike have been struggling in housing the urban poor. This post recognizes the failures of the past by enlisting four policies, which, when enforced would help change the scenario for the better. These include the […]

February 19, 2013

Bolivia: New homes for the poor – made using recycled bottles

A new project replacing unstable, one-room shacks with homes made using recycled plastic bottles is underway in Bolivia, with successful reviews. Empty bottles are collected and filled with sand to make bricks for new homes. These houses are better than thee shacks they replaced, and a documentary featuring these houses […]

February 19, 2013

India: UP’s ambitious urban poor housing scheme yet to take off

The state government of Uttar Pradesh has allotted a sum of US$18.5 million or INR 1 billion for housing of the urban poor under its scheme called ‘Aasra’. Under this scheme, some 4000 houses were to be built for the urban poor in the current fiscal year. However, the scheme […]

February 19, 2013

How e-learning can be spread via mobile phones in developing world

With the ubiquity of mobile phones in the developing world – where mobile phones have even replaced bicycles and such as prozed possessions in villages, the potential for learning through mobile devices is intuitively known as high, but unquantified, and hence an arena not explored by the service providers. In […]

February 19, 2013

eLearning Africa Report 2012

This is a report by eLearning Africa, an organization based in Germany. This report surveys stakeholders from 41 countries across the continent to derive key facts about eLearning, and potential expansion of the same in Africa. It was found that 71 per cent of those surveyed are now using ICT […]

February 19, 2013

‘Shaping the Future – Realising the potential of informal learning through mobile’

This news GSMA reports’s objective is to prove the merit of mobile as a tool of achieving education in emerging markets and developing countries. It follows a diverse group of young people from Ghana, Morocco, Uganda and India through their lives to discover critical information – like how just one-fourth […]

February 19, 2013

Grameen Foundation, KfW, CARE’s Access Africa Fund invest in world first completely mobile-based MFI

Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Musoni Kenya is the world’s first MFI to provide financial transactions for the poor that are completely mobile phone based. Now, Grameen Foundation, KfW and CARE’s Access Africa Fund have invested in Musoni Kenya, and this inflow of cash will help Musoni grow its operations, deepen […]