Tech Innovators

From Timbuktu Chronicles Sat Jul 19 2014, 08:59:00

In SciDev:

This month's podcast features two female innovators who are making a difference in the developing world.

First we meet Neeti Kailas, an award-winning Indian designer who is working to improve the early diagnosis of hearing impairment in newborn babies. Every year, almost 100,000 hearing impaired babies are born in India, but speech development can be safeguarded with early screening.

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