We Need to Rethink Digital Health Incentives for Sustainable Software Solutions
In a recent episode of High Impact Growth, Dimagi staff delved into the challenges and opportunities in the evolving digital health market. This discussion highlights...
ICT4D Pilotitis Causes and Remedies Framework
Countries from low-and-medium income sectors have faced several long-standing challenges, including poverty, unemployment and an overburdened healthcare system....
Can Digital Community Centers Be Financially Sustainable?
To bridge the digital divide, digital community centers — physical spaces that provide access to the internet, technology devices, and digital skills — have...
10 Examples of Successful African e-Government Digital Services
What are African e-Government Services?
African countries are implementing a diverse range of e-Government services, aiming to improve service delivery, enhance...
How to Bring Public Financial Management into the Digital Era
In our new paper and recent conference, we are critical of the prevailing paradigm for how we think about digital within public financial management (PFM). In short,...
Digital Public Goods Need Sustainable Funding for Success
Last year, the UN Global Pulse and the Digital Public Goods Alliance conducted qualitative research to understand the challenges with developing and deploying digital...
4 Things Humanitarian Innovators Need to Unlearn From the Private Sector
As most of us in the humanitarian sector would recognise, the idea that NGO leaders are less savvy than their private sector counterparts does not ring true....
5 Additional Ways to Create Digital Development Sustainability
We constantly talk about sustainability when designing and refining digital solutions, but what do we really mean when we say it? Josh Woodard’s post “Is It...
Is It Finally Time to Retire Sustainability in ICT4D?
Talk – and debate – of the term “sustainability” in ICT4D is nothing new. The theme has been discussed on ICTworks for more than a decade....
Apply Now: $75,000 for Open Source Software Sustainability Planning
Expensive mainstream proprietary software from advanced markets isn’t appropriate for many resource-constrained contexts in international development. Open Source...