10 Human Rights Impacts of Land Governance Digitalization
Digitalization – the adoption and use of information and communications technologies (ICT) and artificial intelligence in different sectors and every...
Please Use Accurate Poverty Maps in Humanitarian Relief Programs
Many critical decisions require accurate, quantitative data on the local distribution of wealth and poverty.
Governments and non-profit organizations rely on such...
How Spatial Intelligence Solutions Can Improve Public Health Outcomes
Accurate quantification of a population, and the ability to locate this population with precision, are fundamental requirements for reporting the true coverage...
Apply Now: Computer Science Research Internships with Google
Computer science research happens at Google everyday on both services and products such as Search, Maps, Google Assistant, Google Translate, Google Cloud and their...
How You Can Support the COVID-19 Response Right Now
As I’ve gone from from worried to crazy worried about the novel coronavirus impact on all of us, I keep asking myself the question:
“What can I do to help with...
Which Is Better for Farm Size Mapping: UAV Drones or Satellites?
Development programming is full of information gathering, such as farm size. In a program I once worked on, smallholder farmers had to have less than three hectares...
ICT4D Hype Cycle for 2019: AI, Blockchain, Chatbots, Data, And…
Back in 2014, we posted our first Development Hype Cycle to showcase how technologies move from initial invention to widespread application. We followed it up with...
Apply Now: $200,000 Remote Sensing Agriculture Technology Challenge
Smallholder farmers produce the vast majority of the world’s cocoa, the basic ingredient for chocolate. Cocoa farmers face daunting challenges: declining yields,...
Finally! Accurate Mobile Network Coverage Maps Show Connectivity Reality
Closing the global digital divide is such a daunting challenge, some companies have resorted to expensive, eyebrow-raising, flying moonshot solutions. Despite...
Don’t Be Strava: Six Ways to Break Your Data Stockholm Syndrome
In the last few days, there has been a lot of hand-wringing after Strava, a run tracking app, published a global heat map of its users’ exercise paths. As it...