Don't hit your sister! Veggies are good for you. No, we can't watch Frozen every night. No matter where you live around the globe, moms pretty much teach their children the same lessons. But in honor of Mother's Day, we wanted to track down a few of the world's more distinctive rules and customs. We asked four Aspen …
When Rasha Jarhum, an Aspen New Voices fellow and member of the Yemeni Women Pact for Peace and Security, started working with Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan in 2014, she saw the war in her native Yemen escalate, and her family were forced to leave. The numbers of people fleeing Yemen are still rapidly increasing — more …
The annual letter from the Gates Foundation calls for an "energy miracle" — the creation of a cheap and clean source of energy to get power to the 1.2 billion people on the planet without electricity. "We need to try lots of crazy-seeming ideas so we can find a few that help us solve the world's energy challenge," Bill Gates …
Leaders from Africa, Asia, and Latin America Join Fellowship to Bring New Perspectives on International Development The Aspen Institute Announces 2016 Class of New Voices Fellows, Including Experts in Food Security, Vaccines & Infectious Diseases, and Development Policy & Finance “With this class of new Fellows, we’re continuing to connect journalists and policymakers with development …
Evans Wadongo is a multiple award-winning Kenyan engineer and innovator, known for his exceptional contribution to electricity generation in his country through the production of LED lamps (MwangaBora – “good light”) at the age of 19. He was also recognised as one of CNN’s top ten heroes in 2010. His technology is improving the lives of the people in …