I’ve spent over a decade advocating for mobile phone access as a pathway to development. Like many in our community, I firmly believed that connecting everyone...
When this USA administration dismantled USAID, people noticed. Courts intervened. Senators held hearings. Aid workers went on television. The chaos was loud, and...
Three billion people — 38% of the world’s population — experience the digital divide daily. They live within mobile broadband coverage but remain offline,...
The conversation we’ve been having about digital sovereignty just became concrete with the America First Global Health Strategy.
The United States has signed...
We are witnessing a significant disconnect in modern development economics.
While AI promises unprecedented productivity gains, with forecasts of adding $19.9 trillion...
The global market for artificial intelligence in government is projected to grow from $22 billion to nearly $100 billion by 2033, yet most developing countries...
The IMF’s AI Preparedness Index destroys the comfortable fiction that Global South countries are “leapfrogging” into AI readiness.
While development...
The evidence crisis in artificial intelligence for health is stark. AI-powered triage assistants, diagnostic aids, and LLM-based symptom checkers are being deployed...
How many AgriTech solutions promise to revolutionize smallholder farming with comprehensive digital advisory platforms? The formula is always the same: aspirational...
The ICT4D community continuously debates how to connect the unconnected. We’ve argued about spectrum allocation, community networks, and whether Starlink...
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