New OpenLMIS Public-Private Partnership for Open Source Sustainability
OpenLMIS is looking toward the future. After launching in 2012 in two countries, OpenLMIS has grown to serve over 11,000 health facilities across 9 African countries....
New Toolkit: How to Apply Artificial Intelligence Ethically in Your Programs
As decision making and recommendations become increasingly algorithmically automated, it is critical that we are intentional about producing more fair development...
The ICT4D Guilty Pleasure: Reinventing Digital Wheels for Donors
We are all familiar with the concept of reinventing the flat tire in digital development. That’s when we repackage a known failure as new innovation, usually...
Apply Now: $6,500 Funding for Open Source Humanitarian Projects
Open source software projects in the humanitarian aid sector often need programming, technical writing, and graphic design skills to produce high-quality solutions....
6 Takeaways From COVID-19 Remote Data Collection in Rural DRC
Helping USAID ensure accountability and results through monitoring, evaluation, and learning (ME&L) presented a multitude of challenges this year. The COVID-19...
New USAID Guide: How to Manage Artificial Intelligence Projects in International Development
As machine learning applications become more widely adopted, so does optimism for the ability for artificial intelligence to reshape the development sector, from...
What to Do About Racist Hardware in Digital Development?
In an astonishing letter to the editor published in the December 17, 2020, edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), a group of five doctors from the...
Status of Government Policy Progress on Internet Connectivity Prices
COVID-19 digital response has laid bare the scale and consequences of the digital divide and underlined the urgent need to find solutions to digital inequality.
Governments...
5 Steps for Measuring the Benefits and Risks of Stakeholder Data
We all live in a world where we need to have good quality data, quickly and (ideally) inexpensively, for better decision making. And to share that with partners...
Apply Now: 1 Million Euro for African COVID-19 Digital Response Solutions
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is a human tragedy across the African continent. Besides contributing to the loss of over 50,000 people, the pandemic is expected...