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For years, we explored the digital regulatory environment in an African country by:
Opening fifteen browser tabs, with three of them showing 404 errors,
Downloaded PDFs from three different ministry websites
Asked a colleague...
The Philippines ranks third globally in tuberculosis burden, with roughly 100 Filipinos dying from TB daily. It also has the fastest-growing HIV epidemic in the Western Pacific.
These twin crises strain a health system contending...
The 2014 Ebola crisis cost Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone $2.2 billion in lost economic growth. When SARS spread through Asia in 2003, affected countries lost $40 billion in GDP. COVID-19 shut down the world.
Early intervention...
Have we been approaching the gender digital divide all wrong?
For years, development practitioners have obsessed over access, affordability, and skills training while missing the most crucial insight about women’s...
I’ve lost count of how many ICT4D Fail Festival entries follow the same script: “Our app had cutting-edge features, our platform was technically robust, our team was experienced. Yet somehow the project still...
About 2.2 billion people remain offline in 2025, and 96 percent of them live in low- and middle-income countries. Even among those who are connected, mobile broadband remains unaffordable in roughly 60 percent of low- and...
Zambia is about to make a spectacular miscalculation.
While researchers and development practitioners celebrate the potential of linking the country’s digital identity system (INRIS) with tax administration to boost...
Donor meetings often conclude that electronic medical records are too complex for low-resource settings. The conventional wisdom in our sector holds that digital health in LMICs should mean SMS reminders and WhatsApp chatbots,...
The AI divide is widening, not closing. As of June 2025, high-income countries held 77% of global colocation data center capacity, while low-income countries held less than 0.1%. Microsoft found generative AI adoption in...
The development sector is proud of what it has built. DHIS2 runs national health information systems in more than 80 countries. CommCare supports community health workers at scale. Safaricom-backed M-Tiba distributed insurance...
