The Africa Science Leadership Program, launched on 2 March, is the first of its kind in the developing world (see www.up.ac.za/aslp).up.ac.za/aslp
They expect to reach 60,000 respondents in 25 provinces making the survey the largest undertaking of its kind in the developing world.
Last April, interviewers with the 2010 Chinese Family Panel Studies survey dispersed across the nation to survey 14,865 households a total that makes the study the largest of its kind in the developing world.
You can kind of think of it like a LinkedIn for the developing world.
"This is very important," says epidemiologist Ken Nelson of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore: "It means that the possibility of delivering this kind of therapy" in the developing world "is becoming real".
Of course, that kind of legal reform presupposes a measure of democracy and good government, something much of the developing world doesn't have.
For developing world projects, add a unique "export" from the developed world, a side effect of Friedman's "The World is Flat;" effective political opposition from non-government organizations to any kind of mining, especially anything nuclear.
Director Michael Matheson Miller reviews the situation in Haiti in particular and in some sub-Saharan African countries, and finds that the perfectly legitimate desire to help, which often manifests itself in the form of cash and in-kind donations, keeps the developing world in its developing state.
But when we talk about poverty in the UK, we aren't talking about the same kind of poverty as in the developing world.
Crime scientists have a special role to play in studying these crimes because their work is oriented to solutions and it is this kind of practical help that the developing world most needs.
TERI in Delhi is, meanwhile, challenging assumptions about what kind of progress is possible in the developing world through its Lighting a Billion Lives campaign, helping rural Indians gain access to clean and reliable energy.
