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The conversation we’ve been having about digital sovereignty just became concrete with the America First Global Health Strategy.
The United States had signed 26 bilateral health Memorandum of Understanding with African...
We are witnessing a significant disconnect in modern development economics.
While AI promises unprecedented productivity gains, with forecasts of adding $19.9 trillion to the global economy by 2030, we’re simultaneously...
The global market for artificial intelligence in government is projected to grow from $22 billion to nearly $100 billion by 2033, yet most developing countries have no AI initiatives in their public sectors.
A recent OECD...
The IMF’s AI Preparedness Index destroys the comfortable fiction that Global South countries are “leapfrogging” into AI readiness.
While development practitioners debate which chatbot to deploy in refugee...
The evidence crisis in artificial intelligence for health is stark. AI-powered triage assistants, diagnostic aids, and LLM-based symptom checkers are being deployed from Kenya to Myanmar — but without rigorous local evidence.
Of...
How many AgriTech solutions promise to revolutionize smallholder farming with comprehensive digital advisory platforms? The formula is always the same: aspirational technology like sleek mobile apps, blockchain supply chains,...
The ICT4D community continuously debates how to connect the unconnected. We’ve argued about spectrum allocation, community networks, and whether Starlink is extractive. Those are important conversations.
But while...
For the first time in more than two decades, autocracies outnumber democracies globally — 91 to 88 — according to the V-Dem Institute’s Democracy Report 2025. 72% of the world’s population now lives under...
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,...
