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The development community may be asking the wrong question about Kenya’s controversial new health agreement with the United States. While digital rights advocates express outrage over data sovereignty violations, they’re...

Nearly 250 million children globally face educational disruptions each year due to natural disasters, conflict, illness, and systemic failures. In many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the majority of students sit...

 I’ve heard development practitioners say telemedicine is just a poor substitute for real healthcare. That virtual consultations can’t possibly match the quality of face-to-face care. That we’re shortchanging...

I’ve been diving deep into groundbreaking research on community health worker perceptions of AI applications in rural India. The truth is more complex than the rosy predictions flooding our sector about artificial...

While 1.1 billion people live in acute multidimensional poverty, over half of them children, young innovators worldwide are proving that technology can bridge the gap between hardship and opportunity. Yet an estimated two...

Today is American Thanksgiving, and I’d like to give thanks to Tony Roberts, for his post from 2016: Let a Thousand ICT4D Blogs Bloom. It looked at the leading digital development blogs of that time. Reading that post...

Everyone wants to talk about digital infrastructure. Unreliable electricity, spotty internet, inadequate hardware budgets. These are real problems, and I’ve watched countless digital health conferences devolve into...

The gap between promising digital innovations and transformative impact at scale remains one of development’s most persistent challenges. Subscribe Now for more funding opportunities  Countless enterprises demonstrate...

We are quickly reaching an inflection point where withholding Generative AI solutions from healthcare systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) will be as morally indefensible as denying any other life-saving intervention. Subscribe...