226 Results Are Tagged With "Science and Technology"

Harmony

Drum Jam , Jordan
Expiration: May 1, 2018

GOAL
The goal of Harmony is to provide music workshops between 2 and half months for 25 children and youth from underserved areas in Jordan. These participants in turn will transfer their knowledge to more than 200 members of their families.
OBJECTIVES
➢ Raise the awareness about the importance of multiculturalism through music activities given to the children.
➢ Involve children in music workshops where they will learn about American music, musical instruments, famous artists and musicians along with their history.
➢ Increase the number of knowledgeable children and youth in Jordan within the field of Music.
➢ Positive redirection of disconnected youth in areas with higher rates of crime and poverty.
➢ Helping children and youth develop positive behavior.
➢ Engage and connect youth to supportive services including recreation of musical
instrument out of simple materials.
➢ Engaging both females and males to work together with no sex racism through music.

Monday, January 29, 2018 - Saturday, December 1, 2018
Anonymous User

In Absence of Evidence

In Absence of Evidence is a documentary film that tells the bold story of Dr. Elmi Muller, a South African female surgeon who performed the world’s first HIV-to-HIV kidney transplant in 2008. At a time of HIV denialism in South Africa, where patients with end-stage renal disease and HIV had no treatment option but to be sent home to die, she pioneered an established procedure on a stigmatized population.
Thursday, December 28, 2017
Anonymous User

1UP Kitchen Accelerator & Digital Marketplace -- Social Entrepreneurship, E-commerce, Sustainability and Humanity

1UP Kitchen is a Sustainable Kitchen Accelerator & Digital Marketplace. The purpose is to promote sustainable social entrepreneurship in a place where humanity, sustainability and cultures can be embraced. The goal is to help businesses with speed to market, and create opportunities for refugees and disadvantaged

Senior PHP Developer

TechGenies , Lebanon

A PHP / MySQL Developer is creative, a very good software and database designer with strong object oriented design skills, can work independently, has good communications skills and can brainstorm with the team on new ideas. In addition, the ideal candidate works well in a fast paced environment and deals professionally with both teammates and clients in order to meet business and technical demands.

Responsibilities:

--Design and implement new solutions using industry standard technologies (specifically HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL).
--Provide input on web platform design and configuration to maximize application performance.
--Recommend solutions for new applications and enhancements for existing applications.
--Recommend code and design optimizations to improve the scalability of the applications and maximize performance.
--Mentor teammates in web application architecture and object oriented technology as implemented in a LAMP environment.

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) HBCE/MI Internship Program

Washington Center , United States (District of Columbia)
Expiration: January 19, 2018

The Washington Center has released their Summer 2018 application for the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) HBCU/MI Internship Program.

This program is designed for students who attend historically black college or universities, a tribal college or university, or a minority-serving institution. Applicants should be majoring in a STEM subject and have an interest in complex laboratory work.

Saturday, December 9, 2017 - Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Anonymous User

Construction of “Youth Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center” in Paynesville, Liberia

YONER-LIBERIA is on the fundraising campaign to raise the amount of US$300,000 for the construction of the first “Youth Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center” in Paynesville, Liberia. Also, called a ‘Community Space’, will contain research and innovation labs, co-working, desk, office and maker spaces and meeting, events and conference facilities for the purpose of horning scalable entrepreneurship and technology social innovation and business concept solutions to form an inclusive “Community” in pursuit of supporting the U.S. Embassy Monrovia’s strategic goals of fostering inclusive economic development and improving Liberia's human development status and achieving Goals, 2, 4, & 7 of the SDGs. The Space aims to support and improve on the organization’s Entrepreneurship Program currently being implemented in partnership with the U.S. Embassy, the U. S. State Department’s GIST Program and the University of Delaware (USA) for youth empowerment, and to bridge the digital divide and focus on giving students and youth the advanced technological and entrepreneurial skills they need to transition into jobs in the knowledge economy. The “Space” will exploit the power of innovative approaches for effective, high quality education through technologies, internet, science, entrepreneurship in identifying, preparing and equipping students and young entrepreneurs with the relevant skills to shape their ideas into innovative and sustainable businesses, and expose them to opportunities that can scale up their ventures to solve pressing problems in Liberia while generating income. The organization envisages sustainability – will offer office, desk, meeting, and conference spaces to local entrepreneurship and technology stakeholders, students, young people and professional to rent and use for reasonable amounts. Additionally, the co-working and maker spaces will host growing organizations, students, and emerging and young entrepreneurs without office space. They will make a minimum payment for upkeep and use the space and its facilities thereof. The proceeds generated will contribute to the maintenance of the Space and support other aspects of our intervention, as well as paying staff and volunteers and facilitating programs. Also, the Space will utilize technologies and entrepreneurial innovation for an effective teaching and learning process for young people - managing and delivering resources, services and products to enhance beneficiaries - liberating time, human resource and accountancy; and training to focus on innovation and capacity building, effective teaching and learning; and interaction and networking.

Immersive Technologies and Environmentalism Meet in San Francisco

During citizenAR, a State Department-funded hackathon teams from universities around the United States imagined new ways of engaging city-dwellers in making their environment more sustainable.

Architecture of the Palauan Verbal Complex

National Science Foundation , Palau
Expiration: February 28, 2011

This grant supports Justin Nuger’s research on the syntax of the Palauan verbal complex (also known as vP). Palauan is an Austronesian VOS language spoken in the Republic of Palau that contains a wide array of verbal morphology, with overt morphemes expressing mood, tense, aspect, and both subject and object agreement (presumably morphological reflexes of syntactic Case licensing). The primary goal of Nuger’s research is to investigate the extent to which Palauan’s rich verbal morphology can provide a window into the language’s vP-internal syntax, following much recent empirical and theoretical research on the syntax-morphology interface.

Thursday, February 1, 2018 - Sunday, April 1, 2018
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Earth Day 2018: Clean Technology Initiative - Electronic Wastes Canvassing with GreenUp Technology & Home Innovation Assessments

*************It's our ingenuity that makes the difference between a bleak future and a bright one --- Bill Gate************* Clean Technology is about taking a firm stand in innovation to lower environmental impact starting with design thinking, to manufacturing production, to the usage and disposal of electronic products. The mission is to change both products and users to become more sustainable, and develop a new set of attitudes and thinking in all phases of innovation that will lower our environmental impact. I am requesting this grant to launch a new project for 2018 Earth day--Clean Technology Initiatives: Ewastes Collection Canavassing Week. The purpose is to encourage local communities to join efforts in minimizing energy consumption, water pollution, and electronic wastes. My goal is to address the importance on moving innovation forward, without placing further harm to our environment through creative community projects, advocacy, and youth leadership development---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The highlight of this project is a week-long Clean Tech and Electronic Waste Awareness week, where we will go door-to-door in Las Vegas to help seniors and people with disability with e-wastes collection. There will be a GreenUp Home Innovation Assessments, where we will evaluate the overall household innovation, waste consumption, and energy efficiency. We will visit 300 homes in Las Vegas during a week-long campaign targeting senior citizens and people with disability. Our goal is to conduct 150 GreenUP Home Innovation Assessments and recruit 50 volunteers for this community wide event. My aspiration comes from understanding that human activity is contributing to carbon emission that is affecting the health of children growing up in toxic and careless cultures. It is estimated that 20 million children in the world will have a higher chance in getting lung cancer living in an environment exposed to pollution. Another growing problem is the speed of innovation taking a toll on our environment, creating an overwhelming of electronic wastes that is crowding our landfill. These landfills are toxic with contaminants leaking into groundwater that causes health problems to both children and adults.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Currently, there are less than 5 organizations in Southern Nevada that collects electronic wastes. Las Vegas hosts a one-day community-wide recycling event where residents can dispose all of their wastes such as paper, appliances, old electronics, plastic and furniture for free. However, not everyone understands the importance of recyling, and it is difficult for senior citizens and the disabled to participate.-------------------------------------- I personally cannot live without my technologies, and I’m exhilarated when new innovation is discovered. Our world will only be moving faster, and our technologies will only create more wastes if we don’t act now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As the sustainability model describes that we must start locally within our own community, before we can tackle bigger challenges globally, I decided to do something about this problem. I’ve been studying International Business, and was constantly reaching out for more sustainability work during my undergraduate studies. I have been inspired by the work of Nobel Laurate Vice President Al Gore and Dr. Muhammad Yunnus in fighting climate change and global poverty. I saw their power in getting people to change, and I’m finally seeing our society and policies taking off. I’m also inspired by global citizenship, that each and every one of us cannot do everything but can definitely do something. My goal with this project is to raise awareness, to bring people together and put into action on Clean Technology Initiatives. I am hoping this project can eventually turn into a full-scale non profit organization in the near future.

Developing New Sustainability Methodologies for Operation Management & Supply Chain in Asia and Southeast Asia

Individual - Change4Good Innovations , United States
Expiration: May 5, 2018

The Paris Climate Change agreement calls for reforms in all sectors with goals set forth by participating countries to lower greenhouse gas emission in combating climate change. Careless human consumption and toxic manufacturing plants are threatening our efforts in sustainability, with fossil fuel from manufacturing plants causing water and air pollution that are very harmful to children. It is estimated that 20 million children in the world are growing up with a higher chance of getting lung diseases. It is also known that US and China are throwing away an average of 70% of its wastes to landfill, with no other Asian or Southeast Asian countries besides Japan and South Korea that had firmly implemented sustainability practice in place. Not to mention the concerns for poor working conditions, health and safety, and minimizing risks in global manufacturing. An examination into these areas are in needed in the efforts to fight climate change, in a time when innovation and consumer demand is rapidly accelerating.

The Paris Climate Change Agreement is a global cooperative to lower our earth’s temperature 2 degrees Celsius by 2025, and forming a global alliance in mitigating temperature from getting past 1.5 degrees Celsius. 169 nations pledged to take immediate action on this effort to lower greenhouse gas emission, and began implementing strategies in moving the climate agenda to a more sustainable future.
I am requesting a grant to fund research and provide sustainability training to workers abroad in the maufacturing sector. I will assess the sustainability competitiveness in operation management and supply chain in different countries. This research will involve plant visits to various manufacturing plants and manufacturers’ headquarters, in-person interviews, sustainable supply chain presentations to foreign and US companies, meeting with US embassies and environmental organizations abroad. My goal is to identify the environmental challenges faced by the manufacturing industry in Asia and Southeast Asia, and develop new methodologies in sustainability practices for that will minimize environmental impact. The focuses will be in the following areas: Deming's 14 points to total quality management, Closed Loop Supply Chain and Reverse Logistics. The theme will be: Changing Attitudes in the Workplace to Correct Behaviors, and Putting Action into Place for a More Sustainable Society.

This research includes visiting countries with the highest consumption in manufacturing such as China, with visits to countries that has pioneered sustainability such as Japan. I will also visit operations/companies that are driving sustainable innovation such as South Korea. My ambition is to visit various plants in South East Asia to help international companies implement sustainability practices, and potentially experiment any new findings.

The goal is to visit 10 manufacturing plants in 6 different countries, this grant requires involves two parts, I will be conducting research and provide sustainability TQM training to companies abroad in selected global manufacturing companies. I am aiming specific industries such as Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Personal Care, Toys and Fashion. Aside from site visits, I will be taking training courses, meeting with Foreign NGO's, US Embassies for preparation. Here are the countries that are tentatively scheduled for visits:

China
Japan
South Korea
India
Vietnam
Bangladesh
Philippines
Singapore
Hong Kong
Ghana ** If additional funding permits (extending research to electionic wastes landfills)

In addition, I will visit two international business and logistic hubs, Singapore and Hong Kong. Singapore and Hong Kong had consistently been ranked with the highest degree of economic freedom in the world. My purpose here is to access its trade relations against their sustainability standards, and correlate new findings on sustainable trade practices in comparison to other Asian and Southeast Countries.

There will also be an in-depth look into global waste management. Currently there are only 13% of wastes used for energy, with the rest left at landfills emitting methane into the air. This research will tap into recycling and upcycling measures in developing countries, to identify problems and barriers in this area. These are all contributing factors that are adding more negative impact to our planet, that are toxic and dangerous. For that reason, I will be visiting landfills and incinerators across Asia as well.

This research grant will allow for opportunities to bridge international trade relations with Asia. In recent years, businesses are incorporating sustainability initiatives in their foreign operations and are demanding ethical sourcing and greener the supply chain. This success of this research will derive to new findings to barriers that are keeping Asia and Southeast Asia from becoming a more sustainable manufacturing economy.

The targeted travel date will begin in January of 2018 and will end in July of 2018.

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