Generative AI Found 10 Innovative USAID Programs Advancing Digital Democracy
Our recent posts on using Generative AI to explore the Advancing Digital Democracy RFP proved to be very popular. They broke many ICTworks email open rates and...
Please RSVP Now: Frontiers of Digital Development Forum 2022
Please RSVP Now for the Frontiers of Digital Development Forum on November 1-2 – a hybrid forum for tough conversations on frontier technology brought to...
The Right to Repair Technology Solutions is a Development Issue
Who owns the device you are reading this blog post on?
It may seem like a straightforward question until a power surge fries a key circuit or a stray elbow knocks...
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...
How the Honduran Disability Community Uses Digital Solutions
Studies on how many disabled people live in Honduras are scarce. Results of a survey by the National Statistics Institute (INE), carried out in September 2002,...
Apply Now: $300,000 USAID Contracts for Digital Agriculture Solutions
Feed the Future is the U.S. Government’s global hunger & food security initiative. The USAID Bureau for Food Security wants to integrate digital tools and...
We Need a 10th Principle for Digital Development: Educate the User
We in the international development community talk a lot about privacy and security in digital development. We try to think through privacy and security in terms...
When Do We Stop Promoting Facebook in Digital Development?
Another day, and yet another data privacy failure at Facebook, which had over 21 major privacy scandals in 2018 alone. It was a big year, with Russian trolls, Cambridge...
Apply Now: USAID Funding to Aggregate Broadband Internet Demand for Better ICT4D Programs
USAID programs are utilizing digital technology more than ever before – and the rapid expansion of mobile and internet access in the developing world holds the...
What You Need to Know About the USAID Gender and ICT Survey Toolkit
Recently USAID’s Global Development Lab and mStar project released the Gender and ICT Survey Toolkit. In an informative webinar (you can listen to the recording...