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$500,000 Award Recognizes Fundación Sobrevivencia Cofán for Extraordinary Creativity and Effectiveness Quito, Ecuador (PRWEB) March 05, 2013 The Fundación Sobrevivencia Cofán (FSC, Cofan Survival Fund in English) is one of only 13 nonprofit organizations around the world to win this year’s MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. The award, which was announced on February 28, recognizes exceptional grantees who have demonstrated creativity and impact,...

EMERYVILLE, Calif., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- New Logic Research announced today the successful commissioning of another VSEP vibrating membrane system at a municipal landfill - this time in Quito, Ecuador. The RO system takes landfill leachate from storage ponds and filters it to create clean water that is recycled and used as irrigation water. The water permeating from the system has only about 50 parts per million of dissolved solids, which is lower than the town drinking water....

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought political asylum at Ecuador's embassy in London on Tuesday night, claiming he had been "abandoned" by his own government in Australia in his attempts to avert what he calls political persecution by the United States for releasing U.S. classified documents on his website. Assange’s move comes just days after Britain’s supreme court rejected the last of his appeals against extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over sex crime...

BEDFORD, Mass., June 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FuseSource, the Integration Everywhere Company, today invited software developers, architects, DevOps managers and other information technology professionals to attend two complimentary Fuse Day events in South America this month: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 in Quito, Ecuador and Thursday, June 14, in Santiago, Chile. There is no cost to attend the informative events, which provide attendees with an opportunity to learn about popular open...

In a unique collaboration between scientists from the UK, Ecuador and Réunion, a new species of yeast has been discovered growing on the fruit of an unidentified and innocuous bramble collected from the biodiversity-rich Maquipucuna cloud forest nature reserve, near Quito, in Ecuador."We are actively looking for new yeasts with the ability to ferment plant material to produce bio-energy," said Dr Steve James from the National Collection of Yeast Cultures at the Institute of Food...

A global exporter; a powerful investment opportunity; a world leader in bio-politics and coveted tourism destination among the international jet set: the secret is out; Ecuador IS the country for your next business investment and your next holiday. Beverly Hills, CA (PRWEB) February 24, 2011 Ecuador is a country filled with historical and natural wonders, from the ancient to modern. In 2010 Ecuador welcomed over 1,044,000 travelers (a 7.9% increase over 2009) from around the world to...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Mayor of Quito, Ecuador, signed an agreement on Monday to formalize Quito's partnership with the global concessionaire Quiport to manage Quito's new international airport. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110201/NE40512 ) The new airport replaces the existing Mariscal Sucre Airport in the center of the city and is the only new international airport currently under construction in Latin America. It will be located roughly 15...

Effectiveness of steam injection demonstrated for production of Pungarayacu heavy oil QUITO, Ecuador, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ - David Dyck, President and Chief Operating Officer of Ivanhoe Energy Inc. (TSX: IE, NASDAQ: IVAN), and David Martin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Energy Latin America, announced today that the company has successfully produced oil at its second appraisal well in the Pungarayacu field on Block 20 in Ecuador, following steam injection...

Santiago Pastor appointed Vice President, Operations for Ivanhoe Energy Ecuador QUITO, ECUADOR, July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - David Dyck, President and Chief Operating Officer of Ivanhoe Energy Inc. (TSX: IE, NASDAQ: IVAN), and David Martin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Energy Latin America, announced today that the company's second well, IP-5b, located in the Pungarayacu field on Block 20 in Ecuador has successfully reached total depth and logging activities have...

Ra'anana, Israel, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Percello Ltd., an Israeli fabless semiconductor company developing highly integrated and low-cost digital baseband for UMTS and LTE femtocells, will unveil Quito, the industry's first femtocell reference design that supports 32 users and evolved high-speed packet access (HSPA+) data rates, at Mobile World Congress. This new reference design is based on Percello's Aquilo family of chipsets, which offers the capacity and speed required for...