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Apply Now: $100,000 Grants for Web3 and Blockchain Projects

Apply Now: $100,000 Grants for Web3 and Blockchain Projects

Published on: Dec 02 2024 by Wayan Vota - 1 Comment
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...
Apply Now: $100,000 Grants for Your AI Climate Resilience Project

Apply Now: $100,000 Grants for Your AI Climate Resilience Project

Published on: Jul 02 2024 by Wayan Vota - 1 Comment
In May 2024, the world completed 12 consecutive months of record high temperatures, with the global average temperature 0.65 degrees celsius above the 1990–2020...
Apply Now: $100,000 Grants for Your Climate Technology Solution

Apply Now: $100,000 Grants for Your Climate Technology Solution

Published on: Nov 06 2023 by Wayan Vota - 19 Comments
Climate change is a key driver of many of the changes occurring at the global and local level, across every economy, sector, supply chain, and industry. However,...
10 Humanitarian Aid Organizations Using ICT4D to Help Refugees

10 Humanitarian Aid Organizations Using ICT4D to Help Refugees

Published on: Mar 29 2023 by Wayan Vota - 2 Comments
Humanitarian aid organizations use ICT4D tools with refugees to provide displaced people with many lifesaving services. Education, healthcare, livelihoods, protection,...
Apply Now: $1 Million Financial Inclusion Crypto for Good Grants

Apply Now: $1 Million Financial Inclusion Crypto for Good Grants

Published on: Mar 13 2023 by Wayan Vota - 1 Comment
New blockchain technologies are enabling new products and services that can solve critical challenges of our society. Even better, chain-agnostic Web3 innovations that...
7 New Blockchain Initiatives Driving Financial Innovation Across Africa

7 New Blockchain Initiatives Driving Financial Innovation Across Africa

Published on: Apr 27 2022 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on 7 New Blockchain Initiatives Driving Financial Innovation Across Africa
The digital economy is booming across Africa with multiple fintech innovations using blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and Web3 to change the way Africans interact...
Apply Now: $1.5 Million Blockchain and Crypto for Good Program Grants

Apply Now: $1.5 Million Blockchain and Crypto for Good Program Grants

Published on: Apr 11 2022 by Wayan Vota - 2 Comments
New blockchain technologies are enabling new products and services that can solve critical challenges of our society. Even better, chain-agnostic Web3 innovations...
New Framework: Understanding Social Media, Conflict, and Resilience

New Framework: Understanding Social Media, Conflict, and Resilience

Published on: Jan 05 2022 by Guest Writer - 1 Comment
Information has been used throughout history as a weapon to stoke or intensify violent conflict by mobilizing fighters or supporters, rallying the public or allies,...
The ICT4D Guilty Pleasure: Reinventing Digital Wheels for Donors

The ICT4D Guilty Pleasure: Reinventing Digital Wheels for Donors

Published on: Feb 18 2021 by Nadia Andrada - 28 Comments
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...
Why Would Anyone Want to Launch an ICT4D Startup Organization?

Why Would Anyone Want to Launch an ICT4D Startup Organization?

Published on: Jan 23 2020 by Wayan Vota - 18 Comments
We all talk about encouraging entrepreneurship in developing countries. Yet how many of us have launched our own business, or spun off an initiative from our employer...