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5 Questions to Ask of Every Digital Health AI Solution Design

5 Questions to Ask of Every Digital Health AI Solution Design

Published on: Jun 16 2026 by Wayan Vota - Leave a Comment
Most digital health implementers I know can recite these headline statistics in their sleep. A projected global shortfall of 10 million health workers by 2030. An...
Apply Now with AI: $240M for Agricultural Commodity School Feeding Programs

Apply Now with AI: $240M for Agricultural Commodity School Feeding Programs

Published on: Jun 15 2026 by Wayan Vota - 1 Comment
Globally, 273 million children are out of school, and the gap is widening fastest in the lowest-income countries, where 33 percent of school-aged children are out...
Small Models and Smartphones Beat Sovereign AI GPU Clusters

Small Models and Smartphones Beat Sovereign AI GPU Clusters

Published on: Jun 11 2026 by Wayan Vota - 1 Comment
Part 2 of a three-part series. Part 1: Sovereign AI is a Nvidia sales channel.  The trap is real. The escape route is also real, and most strategy documents have...
Built by User: $250,000 NGO Software Procurements Are Dead

Built by User: $250,000 NGO Software Procurements Are Dead

Published on: Jun 09 2026 by Wayan Vota - Leave a Comment
In May, two researchers at the University of Southern California published a paper describing a tool I have wanted for fifteen years: a conversational AI agent...
Apply Now: €400,000 for Digital Energy Innovations Across Africa

Apply Now: €400,000 for Digital Energy Innovations Across Africa

Published on: Jun 08 2026 by Wayan Vota - 1 Comment
Around 600 million Africans still live without electricity, and sub-Saharan Africa accounts for eight out of every ten people globally without access. Progress...
Sovereign AI Is a Nvidia Sales Channel Using Development Language

Sovereign AI Is a Nvidia Sales Channel Using Development Language

Published on: Jun 04 2026 by Wayan Vota - Leave a Comment
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...
Community Health Workers Are Right to Distrust Artificial Intelligence Solutions

Community Health Workers Are Right to Distrust Artificial Intelligence Solutions

Published on: Jun 02 2026 by Wayan Vota - Leave a Comment
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....
Apply Now: $250,000 for African Language AI Projects

Apply Now: $250,000 for African Language AI Projects

Published on: Jun 01 2026 by Wayan Vota - 1 Comment
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...
Compute Reality of Artificial Intelligence in Global Health LMICs

Compute Reality of Artificial Intelligence in Global Health LMICs

Published on: May 28 2026 by Wayan Vota - Leave a Comment
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...
Apply Now: $700,000 for AI-Assisted Cervical Cancer Screening in Africa

Apply Now: $700,000 for AI-Assisted Cervical Cancer Screening in Africa

Published on: May 25 2026 by Wayan Vota - Leave a Comment
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...