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The ICT4D community obsesses over mobile coverage maps while completely missing what matters for digital inclusion.
We celebrate when another country hits 90% mobile...
Voice Isn’t Failing LMICs – The Lack of Data Is
Recently, ICTWorks raised a valid alarm: voice-only interfaces are often failing small businesses in low- and middle-income countries. We’ve spent years at CLEAR...
India’s Data Law Is Stricter Than GDPR: Please Prepare Now
India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Rules take full effect on 13 May 2027. If your program collects data from anyone in India, you have nine months,...
Wow! Morocco Leads Africa in Certified Data Center Construction
Africa has 50 data centers that Uptime Institute has physically inspected and certified as built to Tier III or Tier IV. Morocco holds 17 of them, more than three...
We Have an Artificial Intelligence Definition Problem in ICT4D
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Your Health Data Problems Do Not Need Another Mobile Application
How many digital health conferences start with the same tired promise: “We just need to digitalize everything and health data quality will magically improve.”...
How I Built an Open Source Digital Marketplace for Women in Costa Rica
Honest ICT4D case studies are the ones that admit which technology choices were forced on us by the people we were trying to serve.
I was the technical lead at...
Wow! Open Source Costs NGOs More Than Commercial Software
For 15 years, open source has functioned as something close to scripture in ICT4D.
Principles for Digital Development enshrined it as Principle 6.
Digital Public...
Hidden Climate Crisis Destroying Software Developer Productivity
The development community is obsessing over the wrong climate threat.
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Borrow the Ceiling While Building Africa’s Artificial Intelligence Floor
On June 9, an American company shipped its most capable artificial intelligence model. Three days later, a letter from the US Commerce Department forced it offline...
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