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SHARING INNOVATIVE EXPERIENCES

Volume 1
Examples of Successful Initiatives in Science and Technology in the South

Published in partnership with:
Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and
Third World Network of Scientific Organizations (TWNSO)

INTRODUCTION

Communications

• High flyers: Brazil
• Phoning for success: Brazil
• Successful calls: Brazil
• Switch is on: Republic of Korea

Local industries

• Better building blocks: India
• Cleaning up textiles: Egypt
• Dry gas: China
• Looking into tea leaves: Kenya
• Saving skins: India
• Software success: Brazil

Quality of life

• Appropriate technology: Brazil
• Reclaiming mines: India
• Recycling water: Chile
• Solar innovation: Brazil
• Tech for people: Mozambique
• Treating wastewater: Sri Lanka
• Village bioelectricity: India

Public health

• Caring for people: Pakistan
• Fighting cancer with cesium: India
• Oral rehydration therapy: Bangladesh
• Therapeutic mushroom growing: India
• Trapping the tsetse fly: Kenya

Food security

• Aqua outreach: Thailand
• Cassava to gari: Nigeria
• Golden pod: Ghana
• Outpacing famine: Philippines
• Plowing for progress: Ethiopia
• Processing fish: Nigeria
• Sweet success: Brazil