12 February, 2015
Two recent reports from development-minded institutions demonstrate how research and innovation can help achieve global development outcomes.
Two recent reports from development-minded institutions demonstrate how research and innovation can help achieve global development outcomes.
The Shell Foundation’s Accelerating Access to Energy reflects on the lessons learned from efforts to build inclusive energy markets in developing countries.
The report outlines the Foundation’s 14-year journey to creating and scaling decentralised energy solutions that provide safe, reliable and affordable power. It highlights the six major barriers, and emerging opportunities to overcome them, which should prove useful to other donors.
50 breakthroughs: Critical scientific and technological advances needed for sustainable global development is a recent report from the Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LIGTT).
It aims to identify where the major new game-changing technologies are most required to benefit global development, as well as foster a discussion on the role of technologies.
This extensive report covers a range of topics, from global health and education, to digital inclusion and gender equity.
See more about the respective reports on the Shell Foundation website and the LIGGT website.
For more examples of science and technology’s role in tackling global challenges, see our book, Science and Innovation for Development or the coverage of our recent event on clean energy innovation.