Why Every ICT4D Practitioner Should Care About Responsible Technology
When All Tech Is Human released its 2025 Responsible Tech Guide, it crystallized something I’ve been feeling: the work we’ve been doing at the intersection...
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We Must Help Countries Resist the Sovereign Generative AI Trap
The digital development community has make this mistake before. We chase politically appealing solutions that sound like empowerment but actually deepen dependency...
Apply Now: $100,000 for Your Student Climate Tech Startup Idea
Developing countries currently receive less than 10% of the funding needed to adapt to climate change, creating a staggering $310 billion annual finance gap by...
OLPC’s Predictable Failure: EduTech Lessons We Keep Refusing to Learn
Spoiler alert: Giving children laptops without empowering teachers doesn’t magically improve education
I’m shocked – absolutely shocked –...
Apply Now: $300,000 for Early-Stage Social Impact Organizations
2.8 billion people still live on less than $2 per day and critical gaps persist in healthcare, education, and digital access across the Global South. Yet early-stage...
Kenya Just Sold Citizen Health Data for $5.66 Per Person. Expect More & Worse.
The development community may be asking the wrong question about Kenya’s controversial new health agreement with the United States. While digital rights advocates...
Apply Now: $20,000 to Deploy Mobile Phone Education Technology
Nearly 250 million children globally face educational disruptions each year due to natural disasters, conflict, illness, and systemic failures.
In many low- and...
Babyl Paradox: When Evidence-Based Digital Success Cannot Beat Corporate Failure
I’ve heard development practitioners say telemedicine is just a poor substitute for real healthcare. That virtual consultations can’t possibly match...
How Do You Explain ChatGPT to a Community Health Worker?
I’ve been diving deep into groundbreaking research on community health worker perceptions of AI applications in rural India. The truth is more complex than...
Apply Now: $250,000 for Youth-Led Tech Solutions to End Poverty
While 1.1 billion people live in acute multidimensional poverty, over half of them children, young innovators worldwide are proving that technology can bridge the...
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