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How many promising digital health pilots have you seen celebrated at conferences for addressing mental health, only to disappear into the graveyard of good intentions? The sector’s obsession with perfect pilots...
Despite record progress in financial inclusion, 1.3 billion adults worldwide remain unbanked, with women comprising 55% of this excluded population. For communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Asia, limited...
On the balcony of a building facing the road to Pattamadai in Tamil Nadu, four Pattupai artisans gathered at midday to meet Digital Empowerment Foundation’s Cluster Coordinator Vinoda Sin to learn how to use artificial...
When the WHO Science Council released its 2025 report Advancing the Responsible Use of Digital Technologies in Global Health, I saw digital health practitioners nod approvingly at the familiar recommendations.
The report...
The authoritarian playbook is clear: shut down the internet, silence dissent, surveil citizens, manipulate elections. As a result, authorities cut internet access to 111 million Africans in 2024. This censorship inflicted...
We are witnessing one of the most dangerous narratives to emerge in the ICT4D space in decades.
While Washington and Beijing battle for technological supremacy, development practitioners are being pushed to pick sides in...
Sadly, countless health chatbot projects crash and burn across low- and middle-income countries each year.
It’s not about artificial intelligence limitations, insufficient funding, or even poor internet connectivity....
Artificial intelligence startups dominate global VC funding in 2025, yet the vast majority of this $193 billion in capital flowing to well-funded Silicon Valley firms pursuing commercial applications.
We need a different...
For artisans like Kohinoor Khatoon, becoming a digital entrepreneur is a milestone, not the journey’s end. While digital access is opening doors in the villages of West Bengal, it is also surfacing persistent barriers,...
While development practitioners debate whether smartphones have rendered Community Information Centres obsolete, new research from Ghana reveals a more complex truth: CICs aren’t competing with mobile technology—they’re...
