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Making Communities Water Secure
A water-from-air kiosk launched by USAID and Maithri Aquatech makes clean water a shared resource.
Making Learning Accessible
A Nexus-trained start-up uses text messages and WhatsApp to bridge the digital divide.
Exemplifying Shared Ambitions
Numerous Indian Americans came to the U.S. as students before going on to lead major U.S. tech firms.
Making Kids Internet-Ready
Digital safety expert Brooke Istook speaks about online sexual abuse of children, how to prevent it and how families can support victims.
Invest Small for Large Gains
Wonder Wagen helps vehicle fleet owners make key business decisions and save operational costs by delivering real-time data.
Drones Help Diagnose TB Patients…
A USAID-supported drone project is helping bolster TB diagnosis in hard-to-reach areas by delivering samples quickly to laboratories for testing.
Blended Financing for Health Innovation
Blending financing can offset risk, attract multipartner investment and scale up innovations for wide-reaching impact.
Energy Boost
Leonite Labs’ high-efficiency lithium batteries power electric vehicles in a market that is rapidly expanding to accommodate efficient alternatives.
Electric Bikes: Fueling the Future
Emote Electric offers an effective and ecologically safe alternative to petrol-run bikes.
Learn About Carbon Capture
What's the difference between carbon capture and carbon removal? Learn more about both emerging technologies here.
Bridging the Gender Digital Divide
WomenConnect Challenge India expands business opportunities for women and empowers them to uplift themselves and their communities.
Empowering Through Technology
The Internet Saathi initiative teaches rural women to use and benefit from the Internet.
Training for the Future
At Kanpur’s Indian Institute of Technology 200 students use the Computer Centre every day for training, course projects and research.
Solar Solutions
Khethworks builds reliable, solar-powered irrigation systems that enable small-plot farmers to cultivate their land throughout the year and generate more income.
Science, Technology, Environment, and Space
The importance of our shared leadership will only grow in the coming decades as we work together to address opportunities such as artificial intelligence and space exploration, and challenges such as ensuring clean air, providing access to clean water, and protecting wildlife.
Chilling With Green Technology
University of Utah graduate Akash Agarwal’s New Leaf Dynamic Technologies offers GreenCHILL, an off-grid refrigeration system for farmers in rural and remote locations in India.
The Spirit of Recycling
IVLP alumnus Mathew Jose’s multifaceted waste management enterprise Paperman moves India toward greater sustainability.
Solving Water Woes
The innovative Bhungroo irrigation system, developed by Fulbright Scholar Trupti Jain’s social enterprise, helps farmers prosper in the face of climate change.
Breath of Life
Millennium Alliance awardee Coeo Labs offers solutions to prevent deaths due to infant respiratory distress syndrome and ventilator-associated pneumonia in low-resource settings in India
Exploring the Nano World
Sabu Thomas, a participant in the 2017 Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators Seminar, works on using nanotechnology to develop useful products in diverse sectors.
Sweet Solutions
A multi-institutional team led by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has demonstrated that sugarcane can be genetically enhanced to increase the amount of oil in its leaves and stems for biodiesel production.
A Cool Idea
American start-up Promethean Power Systems offers novel thermal energy-based rapid chilling solutions to dairy farmers in India.
Capturing Challenges
Inventor and MIT Media Lab professor Ramesh Raskar talks about how his high-tech inventions and initiatives can help solve real-world problems.
Deepwater Drones
Sampriti Bhattacharyya has developed underwater drones that could help in rescue missions and explorations, as well as prevent radiation leakage under the sea.
