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1Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; 2Bukavu Medical University College/Institut Supérieur des Techniques Médicales de Bukavu (ISTM-Bukavu), Bukavu, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo; 3Centre de Recherche sur la Démocratie et le Développement en Afrique (CREDDA), Université Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs, Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo; 4School of Environmental Sciences, Njala University, Freetown, Sierra Leone; ...

OpenSpace, the global leader in 360° construction photo documentation and analysis, today announced a $55 million Series C funding round, led by Alkeon Capital Management. Additional participants in the round include PSP Partners, GreenPoint Partners and New World Development, as well as returning investors Lux Capital, Menlo Ventures, JLL Spark, Navitas Capital and Zigg Capital. The funding comes as the company expands access to the ClearSight Progress Tracking platform to its full customer ...

Women have played essential roles in the global workforce for quite some time. Despite their contributions, women continue to face professional obstacles that many of their male colleagues never experience. The differences between the professional challenges faced by women and those faced by men have been evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. A 2020 study published in the journal World Development examined general inequality during the pandemic, focusing particularly on certain factors, includi...

OpenSpace OpenSpace announced that it has raised a $50 million Series C funding round. A former commerce secretary invested as part of the round, led by hedge fund Alkeon Capital Management. The construction tech company said it saw a 150% growth in customers last year. OpenSpace CEO Jeevan Kalanithi wasnt planning to raise any more money after a fundraising effort last year netted the company $15.9 million. The Series B round in July 2020 helped the company hone a...

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OpenSpace, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a 360° construction photo documentation and analysis platform, raised $55M in Series C funding. The round was led by Alkeon Capital Management. with participation from PSP Partners, GreenPoint Partners and New World Development, as well as returning investors Lux Capital, Menlo Ventures, JLL Spark, Navitas Capital and Zigg Capital. The company intends to use the funds to further expand its ClearSight analytics suite into areas like safety man...

Making data and statistics more inclusive in developing countries Young Asian woman with smiling face sitting in the wheelchair. plo/Shutterstock.com Measuring disability through household surveys and population censuses is challenging and there is not a gold standard approach. In censuses or surveys, disability is often captured through questions on functional difficulties (e.g. seeing, hearing), activities of daily living (e.g. bending, bathing), broad activity limitation (e.g. inability to ...

By Laura Meader | Photography by Jasper Lowe   Every day across the Horn of Africa, Ethiopians eat injera, the country’s staple flatbread. Yet the very preparation of this nutritious bread puts their health at risk. The culprit? Cookstoves—often a small, open fire burning wood, charcoal, or dung—and the fine particulates they release into homes. Breathing in these particulates disproportionately affects women and very young children, contributing to respiratory infect...

Small family farmers produce a third of the world’s food Format New FAO research focuses on contributions of farmers with fewer than two hectares 23 April 2021, Rome - The worlds smallholder farmers produce around a third of the worlds food, according to detailed new research by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Five of every six farms in the world consist of less than two hectares, operate only around 12 percent of all agricultural land, and produce roughly 3...

New FAO research focuses on contributions of farmers with fewer than two hectares 23 April 2021, Rome - The worlds smallholder farmers produce around a third of the worlds food, according to detailed new research by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Five of every six farms in the world consist of less than two hectares, operate only around 12 percent of all agricultural land, and produce roughly 35 percent of the worlds food, according to a study published in W...