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In June 2011, I wrote that microtasking gave youth a value chain they could use to climb out of poverty. On April 16, 2026, Sama issued redundancy notices to 1,108 Nairobi staff because one client, Meta, ended one engagement.
Fifteen...
Private investors put 6% of healthcare investment into women’s health, according to the World Economic Forum’s Women’s Health Investment Outlook. The report found that 90% of that money lands in just three...
On October 18, Anthropic said it would commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, an LLC that could make large donations to nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations.
Elon Musk replied...
Mobile money will not grow much further until people use it to pay their utility bills.
That is where digital development’s clearest success story is stuck. Across Africa, people use mobile money every day to send...
In 2024, 79% of adults worldwide held a financial account. Only 56% could reliably find extra money in an emergency. The World Bank’s Global Findex 2025 reports both numbers, and the 23-point gap between them is the...
Imagine this: one founder, typing alone on a Tuesday night, building an agentic swarm to solve a social problem in the United States.
While she sleeps, her agents read 4,000 Medicaid renewal packets, flag the 600 applications...
Last December I told Belal Jahjooh he was right about digital agriculture. I was right about the wrong half of it.
Jahjooh’s policy paper, Born Poor, Die Poor, argues that “digital solutions cannot compensate...
In January 2012, Uganda’s Ministry of Health issued a moratorium halting new eHealth projects. Donors and NGOs had piloted up to 80 different mHealth applications in Uganda in 2008, and none of them scaled. Donors...
Large philanthropic money moves to organizations that can take large philanthropic money. Everything else about grant making is downstream of that.
In August, I wrote on ICTworks that the new AI philanthropies had not yet...
On 15 September, Kirsty McNeill sat for her first scrutiny session as Minister for International Development and Africa. Across 78 questions, nobody in the room said digital development, connectivity, or digital public infrastructure....
