News stories by Hamid Mehmood
Data Drought in the Global South
- Inter Press Service

HAMILTON, Ontario, Canada, Sep 27 (IPS) - In 2020, every human on Earth created an average of at least 1.7 megabytes of data per second, collectively amassing 2.5 quintilliondata bytes. Some 90% of the world’s total data was created in the last two years alone.
Water Research & Education Needs to Flow Towards Developing World
- Inter Press Service

HAMILTON, Canada, May 30 (IPS) - Colin Mayfield, is Senior Advisor, Water Education and Knowledge Management at United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), and Hamid Mehmood is a Senior Researcher*.
Post-secondary education relevant to the global water crisis is concentrated in wealthy countries rather than the poorer, developing places where it is needed most.

