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Yesterday, USAID published its 1st Quarter Business Forecast. It covered many procurement themes for the world’s largest bilateral donor organization. Today, we are going to focus on one of the most important themes...

Edutainment is powerful. Nollywood proves we can use edutainment for behavior change. Yet we don’t often use multi-channel communication to empower audiences with the knowledge and agency to take action. Edutainment through...

With over 4 billion people (71% of whom are 15-24 year olds) and 1 in 3 children with Internet access, children’s lives are being shaped behind a screen. Digital technology provides children and young people with wider...

 Alain Labrique delivered the closing keynote at the 2024 Global Digital Health Forum in Nairobi, reflecting on the pressing need to transform global health through collaboration, science, and digital public infrastructure...

If you believe the GenAI hype, then you should not be surprised by the viral New York Time article, A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness, where doctors who were given ChatGPT access along with conventional...

USAID implementing partners can use many tools to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic. New research shows marked improvement in health outcomes when organizations focus on two related aspects of digital development: Investing in...

Diabetes is a global issue. 537 million people have diabetes in the world – 24 million people on the African continent today and 55 million by 2045. Anywhere from 2-9% of Zimbabweans have type 2 diabetes, with the...

Globally, 1.4 billion adults remain unbanked and completely excluded from the financial system. Nearly 60% are women. Web3 technologies provide a powerful new set of tools for evolving the financial services landscape. Startups...

There are many Generative AI tools that are revolutionizing digital development. A recent World Bank report found that ChatGPT is by far the most popular. USAID staff also have access to ChatGPT, albeit a version with less...