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8 Recommendations for Farmer-Centric Data Governance Models

8 Recommendations for Farmer-Centric Data Governance Models

Published on: Sep 04 2024 by Guest Writer - 1 Comment
Agricultural technologies can benefit farmers, businesses, consumers, and the environment in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, companies that control...
Improving Adoption of Innovation in International Development Organisations

Improving Adoption of Innovation in International Development Organisations

Published on: Aug 28 2024 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on Improving Adoption of Innovation in International Development Organisations
Innovation is becoming increasingly important in international development co-operation. Without new approaches and technologies, the complex and often inter-connected...
6 Principles for Gender Equitable Artificial Intelligence Solutions

6 Principles for Gender Equitable Artificial Intelligence Solutions

Published on: Aug 22 2024 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on 6 Principles for Gender Equitable Artificial Intelligence Solutions
Artificial intelligence and machine learning based solutions hold a promise of becoming a transformative force in multiple facets of humanitarian and development...
How Evil is Big Tech with Corporate Capture of Artificial Intelligence Solutions?

How Evil is Big Tech with Corporate Capture of Artificial Intelligence Solutions?

Published on: Aug 15 2024 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on How Evil is Big Tech with Corporate Capture of Artificial Intelligence Solutions?
The current involvement of the private sector in the technopolitics of development, and specifically Big Tech, differs substantially from the role that it took...
2 Ways to Improve CHW Data Collection at Health Facilities

2 Ways to Improve CHW Data Collection at Health Facilities

Published on: Aug 14 2024 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on 2 Ways to Improve CHW Data Collection at Health Facilities
The mixed-methods assessment of community health data in ‘Do you trust those data?’—a mixed-methods study assessing the quality of data reported by community...
5 Generative AI Grant Writing Tools for Your Fundraising Proposals

5 Generative AI Grant Writing Tools for Your Fundraising Proposals

Published on: Aug 08 2024 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on 5 Generative AI Grant Writing Tools for Your Fundraising Proposals
Using artificial intelligence for fundraising… yup, there’s a bot for that! Savvy software developers are building AI fundraising tools faster than donation...
10 Steps to Build an African Community Internet Network

10 Steps to Build an African Community Internet Network

Published on: Aug 07 2024 by Guest Writer - 1 Comment
Community networks are Internet communication networks deployed and operated by citizens to meet their own needs. In recent years, the community networks movement...
Introducing USAID Digital Policy: International Development is Digital

Introducing USAID Digital Policy: International Development is Digital

Published on: Jul 31 2024 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on Introducing USAID Digital Policy: International Development is Digital
 Last week, Administrator Samantha Power reiterated USAID’s commitment to a model of development that advances open, inclusive, secure, and rights-respecting...
Did You Notice that El Salvador Adopted Bitcoin for Digital Payments?

Did You Notice that El Salvador Adopted Bitcoin for Digital Payments?

Published on: Jul 25 2024 by Guest Writer - 3 Comments
In the summer of 2021, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced that the country would become the first in the world to adopt Bitcoin as official currency....
6 Barriers to the Fourth Industrial Revolution in African Countries

6 Barriers to the Fourth Industrial Revolution in African Countries

Published on: Jul 24 2024 by Guest Writer - 1 Comment
The Fourth Industrial Revolution refers to a range of new technologies, digitization, and robotization that are affecting all disciplines, economies, and sectors....