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I’ve been tracking the artificial intelligence for development (AI4D) conversation for years, and I have to call out what’s become an increasingly troubling pattern: we’ve reduced the entire Global South...

Many LMIC countries are releasing artificial intelligence strategies. Some of those AI strategies focus on healthcare. Most of those follow the same template: aspirational language, vague commitments to equity and safety,...

Traditional agriculture extension workers are overwhelmed. Advisor-to-farmer ratios exceed 1:1,000 across developing countries. Government extension systems are unable to meet the needs of hundreds of millions of farmers. Digital...

I worry that the humanitarian community is on the wrong side of the Starlink debate. We bemoan Starlink bans across Africa and beyond. We treat every restriction as an attack on connectivity. Are we missing a deeper truth? Governments...

Digital development experts often dismiss Generative AI adoption in government systems as either “techno-solutionism” or “digital colonialism.” Yet, India’s judiciary is quietly proving that...

 The gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professions is well documented. Women comprise just 28% of the global STEM workforce and only 35% of STEM graduates worldwide. These figures have...

The findings from a Global Mapping of AI in CHW Programs across low- and middle-income countries by Nate Miller is very telling. He found 38 different AI systems to support community health workers, with a large majority...

The development community needs to wake up to a harsh reality: the same digital sovereignty rhetoric we’ve championed to counter American and Chinese tech monopolies is being weaponized by authoritarian regimes to...

Only one in six countries will meet SDG4 and achieve universal access to quality education by 2030, while an annual financing gap of US$97 billion exists for low- and lower-middle-income countries to reach quality education...