Two decades after the genocide in Rwanda, the country is harnessing science and technology to rebuild its economy.

Summary:

In 2017, after earning his PhD from the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT CGCS-affiliated graduate student Jimmy Gasore aims to return to Rwanda to continue work on the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) climate observatory that he helped establish. The first of its kind in Africa and one of 13 across the globe, the Rwanda-based station “uses high-frequency monitoring systems to detect greenhouse gases and air pollutants all across the continent.”

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