About "Charting Change"
A monthly blog about innovative projects in the developing world presented by Canadian Geographic and Canada’s International Development Research Centre
Stakeholders from across Africa, including T. Idriss Tinto (foreground) of Burkina Faso, gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, in April 2019 for a three-day workshop aiming to strengthen the work of artificial intelligence researchers and policy makers. Experts believe AI can help transform societies in developing nations.
Workers at the Agbogbloshie e-waste site in Accra burn the insulation on computer cables to get at the copper within. (Photo: West Africa GEOHealth Hub)
A perception map of Tumaco, Colombia. The map uses wildlife symbols to show points where women can be attacked (wasps) or face danger from criminal gangs that control or fight over particular territory (snakes). (Infographic and Illustration: Fundación Ideas para la Paz (FIP)/Christian Benito Rebollo)
Dr. Yiming Shao (in suit) and two other doctors speak to an HIV-AIDS patient at a hospital in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in 2009. (Photo: Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
Diana Gutiérrez (far right) takes measurements of a river during a community water monitoring day in El Guayabal, Panama. (Photo: CATHALAC)
A pregnant woman and a traditional birth attendant ride in a motorcycle ambulance during a simulation of how the vehicle will be used to take women in labour to hospital in Mozambique’s Nampula province. (Photo: EA-HPRO Consortium-IMCHA Initiative)
Nnenna Nwakanma (right) and a colleague outside the home of a woman named Fifa (middle) in Dakar, Senegal, in 2018. Fifa, a former associate mayor in Dakar and an advocate for people with disabilities, collaborated in the process that led to Senegal qualifying for the Open Government Partnership. (Photo: Aldi Diassé)
Sheep are among the millions of livestock around the world that are affected by such diseases as PPR and Rift Valley fever, both of which could be combatted by a new combination vaccine developed in Morocco. (Photo: IDRC)
Women rehearse a play called Svayich Antsetik (Women’s Dream) in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, in 2017. (Photo: Katherine Jaschewski)
Sriganesh Lokanathan (right) and Yashothata Shanmugarajah discuss insights on economic activity as inferred from the analyses of big data from mobile networks in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Photo: LIRNEasia)
