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Around 600 million Africans still live without electricity, and sub-Saharan Africa accounts for eight out of every ten people globally without access. Progress has stalled. The IEA estimates the continent receives less than...

Part 1 of a three-part series on the sovereign AI trap. There is a version of digital sovereignty worth defending. Public Digital’s forthcoming book Digital Sovereignty: The Power to Decide defines it as an organization...

The global digital health community has a consensus diagnosis for community health worker (CHW) skepticism about AI: it’s a training problem. Fix the onboarding. Improve the interface. Run human-centered design workshops....

Africa is home to more than 2,000 languages, yet only about 42 have any meaningful support in today’s large language models. A 2025 review found that across widely used systems, just three scripts — Latin, Arabic, and...

We have spent two years debating whether AI belongs in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) healthcare. That debate is over. AI is already running, whether we sanctioned it or not. Health workers paste patient symptoms...

India’s nursing education sector is rapidly adopting digital tools such as learning management systems, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), simulation platforms, and artificial intelligence–supported learning. However,...

Cervical cancer kills roughly 350,000 women every year, and about 90% of those deaths happen in low- and middle-income countries. The disease is almost entirely preventable, yet the average screening coverage in sub-Saharan...

Development practitioners are celebrating voice interfaces as the ultimate accessibility solution. Yet research from Kenya’s small business sector reveals this assumption is fundamentally wrong. What happens when voice...

For years, we explored the digital regulatory environment in an African country by: Opening fifteen browser tabs, with three of them showing 404 errors, Downloaded PDFs from three different ministry websites Asked a colleague...