Lebone in Ireland
Members of the Lebone team recently traveled to Dublin, Ireland courtesy of the new and exciting Science Gallery and its Lightwave Exhibit to install an exhibit and raise awareness. We were fortunate...
View ArticleLebone & MIT IDEAS
We are very grateful to the MIT IDEAS competition for awarding Lebone with the Muhammad Yunus Innovation Challenge to Alleviate Poverty award at last night’s award ceremony. We look forward to a brief...
View ArticleLebone + OLPCorps
13.06.09 Lebone + OLPCorps Lebone is excited and honoured to join the inaugural Africa OLPCorps. We decided to join the summer OLPCorps program because we share a similar vision for using technology to...
View ArticleLebone + Popular Mechanics
Lebone was named one of the 10 Most Brilliant Innovations of 2009 by Popular Mechanics! We are very honored and humbled to be a part of this remarkable community of innovators. Just being in the same...
View ArticleLebone in Maine!
Lebone members Aviva and Hugo recently returned from Camden, Maine where they were honoured and took part in a wonderful week-long “change agent” program as Pop!Tech 2009 Social Innovation Fellows. It...
View ArticleRevisiting Five Rand
The Lebone team is incredibly lucky to be able to work with talented and dedicated individuals based in our target locations. One of these is Justy Ndaambe, who has been enormously valuable to the...
View ArticleLebone in Long Beach!
Hugo, and by extension team Lebone, was recently honoured as a TED2010 Fellow for innovative work in Africa and interdisciplinary work at The Laboratory at Harvard! It was an amazing opportunity for...
View ArticleAnniversaries
There are some important events which deserve to be remembered. Today is the 20th anniversary of the independence of Namibia–one of the very last African states to gain self-determination. Sam Nujoma...
View ArticleEarth Day and Bill Gates
On Wednesday, Bill Gates gave a speech at Sanders Theatre at Harvard, urging the nation’s brightest students to tackle the most challenging issues facing the world. Though I wasn’t able to see the...
View ArticleUSAID Innovation Forum
On September 22nd we took part in the Science, Technology and Innovation Forum in New York City which was put together by U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) and the New York Academy of...
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