back in the capital, dar es salaam, the world food programme is testing solar panel stations that willgress of each child when they recharge. that way if a tablet breaks, the youngster can get a new one without having to start lessons from the beginning again. in london this week, 11 semifinalists from seven different countries were chosen from the nearly 200 teams that entered. they will refine their software before the final five are chosen to go to tanzania to start the year—long project with the children. so the problem is that there are about 60—100 million kids who have no access to school because school is too far. then you have 250 million more who go to school and leave without ever having learned to read or write a word. and these are kids in botswana, boston, brighton — it doesn't matter. kids go to school all over the world and they go, they don't learn and why is that? that's the question we are trying to address. in our greatest desire, every single child on planet earth has access to a world—class education in the palm of their hand. every single child has his or her pot

back in the capital, the world food programme is testing solar panel stations that will monitor the progresscharge. that way, if a tablet breaks, the youngster can get a new one without having to start lessons from the beginning again. in london this week, 11 semifinalists are seven different countries were chosen from the nearly 200 teams that entered. they will refine the softwa re that entered. they will refine the software before the final five chosen to go to tanzania to speak in the year—long project with the children. there are about 60 to 100 million children with no access to a school. and then there are 250 million who go to school and to leave without ever having learnt to read or write. these are children in botswa na read or write. these are children in botswana in brighton, in boston, it does not matter. kids go to school all over the world and they go, they don't learn. why is that? that is the question we are trying to address. in our greatest desire, every single child on the earth will have access to world—class education in palm of their hand. every single child has the po

back in the capital, dar es salaam, the world food programme is testing solar panel stations that willn london this week, 11 semifinalists from seven different countries were chosen from the nearly 200 teams that entered. they will refine their software before the final five are chosen to go to tanzania to start the year—long project with the children. so the problem is that there are about 60—100 million kids who have no access to school because school is too far. then you have 250 million more who go to school and leave without ever having learned to read or write a word. and these are kids in botswana, boston, brighton — it doesn't matter. kids go to school all over the world and they go, they don't learn and why is that? that's the question we are trying to address. in our greatest desire, every single child on planet earth has access to a world—class education in the palm of their hand. every single child has his or her potential fulfilled. that's the dream and it's not a far—fetched dream. it is possible. we are hoping to be back next year to see how the teams get along but for n

world's largest domestic biometric identification system. the word means foundation. it started out as a voluntary programme to help indians get foodenefits, but the government has now made it mandatory and once the ide to be linked all sorts of things like tax phone numbers, bank accounts, and all of that is making the scheme deeply controversial. how do you keep track of 1.2 billion people? that is india's challenge. take the country's benefits bill. lots of indians are poor, and they receive all sorts of subsidies. but around a quarter of it is stolen, so around a quarter of it is stolen, so a few years ago the indian government had an incredible idea. why not register everybody‘s fingerprints and iris scans, and give them a unique number, which would give them aadhar? proof of identity. it has already saved billions of dollars by cutting benefit fraud, and that is just the beginning. the government hopes to use it to raise more tax, to register voters properly, weed out the one third of indian drivers reckoned to be using a false licence, and much, much more. in fa ct, licence, and much, much more. in fact, it seems almost ever