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ICTs point to way out of unemployment trap

This content was published on Nov 29, 2003 But a group of underprivileged South African youths is hoping to prove the opposite, with the support of a Swiss-backed technology training scheme. Just over half of all South Africans aged between 15 and 30 are unemployed, according to the Swiss-South African Cooperation Initiative (SSACI). And of those job seekers, it’s estimated that 61 per…

Monkey test offers hope to paralysed

This content was published on Nov 29, 2003 The result paves the way for human trials for spinal cord regeneration, which could begin next year. The treated monkeys, which had suffered paralysis in one hand, regained 80 per cent of the movement they had lost. Up to 12 months of further study is needed to confirm these results and, in particular, to see…

Piccard launches solar adventure

This content was published on Nov 28, 2003 The world record attempt – to be launched in 2007 – is backed by the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. The aircraft will resemble a large glider, with a 150m² wingspan, almost as large as that of a Boeing 747. Its entire surface will be covered with solar panels, and the tail will be…

Wall Street Journal tips hat to Swiss innovation

This content was published on Nov 28, 2003 The European Innovation Awards, presented in association with Accenture, awarded a gold prize to Abmi, a silver to SpeedScript, and an honourable mention was given to a team of researchers at the University of Fribourg. The reason the Swiss stand out among all other European nations this year, according to the WSJ, is that “despite…

Skyguide starts to pay crash victim families

This content was published on Nov 28, 2003 The Swiss air traffic control agency, Skyguide, confirmed it had reached an out-of-court settlement with the families of twelve of those who lost their lives. The mid-air crash on July 1, 2002, occurred when a Russian passenger plane carrying over 40 schoolchildren collided with a DHL cargo jet while flying over Überlingen in southern Germany.…

Swiss village provides web services for the blind

This content was published on Nov 28, 2003 The village of Biberist has designed its homepage in such a way that everybody can get the information they need. A young man sits in front of a blank screen. His fingers quickly type out www.biberist.ch on the keyboard and the website opens – but the screen remains black. The man is surfing on the…

The digital revolution

This content was published on Nov 28, 2003 The third industrial revolution is well underway. Over the past 15 years, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have increasingly become a part of our daily lives.But not everyone is part of this emerging information society – the digital divide between “haves” and “have nots” is growing, leaving billions of people literally cut off from the…

Early stage funding for biotech alley firm in Schlieren

This content was published on Nov 28, 2003 The firm can offer its platform to other drug development companies who want to increase the potency of their drugs, but it also has a number of drug candidates of its own that it wants to develop. The young firm, a spinoff of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich, has attracted a lot…

Women still disadvantaged in Switzerland

This content was published on Nov 27, 2003 Women are less educated, under-represented in the workplace, worse paid and more likely to do housework and bring up children than men. However, women have two clear advantages over men: they live longer on average and are less likely to get into trouble with the law. The latest study by the Federal Statistics Office shows…

Digital information eludes security measures

This content was published on Nov 27, 2003 But the intangible nature of digital data means it is very difficult to protect, leading experts to call for the tightening of security. Since the worldwide web was invented by the Geneva-based European Institute for Nuclear Research (Cern ) ten years ago, information has become one of the world’s most sought-after commodities. Widespread access to…

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