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Welcome to 2019! With the start of a new year, we want to continue our multi-year tradition of asking you, our loyal reader, what you want to read about, or better yet, write about, in using information and communication...
Agricultural systems worldwide are facing a triple challenge: how to sustainably increase productivity, while reducing the impact of agriculture on climate change, and increasing resilience of agriculture and food value...
Recently, the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) commissioned a Baseline ICT4D Ecosystem Study to understand the current aspects and experiences of the digital development ecosystem from multiple stakeholder perspectives.
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Every day, we are all tasked with supporting staff in distant offices to use new and emerging technologies. However, emails, chats, and even phone calls can only go so far, and don’t scale well, so sooner or later,...
Google believes that artificial intelligence and machine learning can provide new ways of approaching problems and meaningfully improve social and economic development.
They want to support organizations that are using the...
I’m finding great unease in recent conversations with leading technology for development practitioners in Washington, DC and elsewhere. They are all nervous about where the international development industry is headed,...
In an increasingly digital age, the lack of verifiable identification often results in exclusion from economic opportunities and a variety of social and political rights. Yet one billion people are still unable to prove...
Closing the global digital divide is such a daunting challenge, some companies have resorted to expensive, eyebrow-raising, flying moonshot solutions. Despite the boldness of these attempts, the most exciting advancements...
Speech-based conversational interfaces have several potential benefits for farmers and the ICTforAg professionals who support them:
There is little requirement for literacy and it offers a natural and familiar modality...
Voices for Change (V4C) was an innovative social behaviour change communications (SBCC) programme aimed to create an environment for young Nigerian women and men aged 16–25 years old, across four states in the North and...
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