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Theory of this, theory of that. It often feels as if we have a theory for everything in international development, and in ICT4D as a subset of overall development...
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How Engineers Can Leverage Internet of Things for Better Development Interventions
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Please Do Not Create Yet Another Development Knowledge Portal
The symptoms are familiar. You seem to hear about a new information portal or knowledge platform for international development being launched every week. You check...
ICT4D Hype Cycle for 2019: AI, Blockchain, Chatbots, Data, And…
Back in 2014, we posted our first Development Hype Cycle to showcase how technologies move from initial invention to widespread application. We followed it up with...
Five Ways We Should Do Development Differently in a Digital Age – Your Weekend Long Reads
Caribou Digital turns five years old this year. While 2019 is a rapidly changing digital world, 2014 felt very different. Different elections, different technological...
Our 5 Guiding Principles for SurveyCTO. What Are Yours? – Your Weekend Long Reads
As a social enterprise funded through user fees from hundreds of different organizations, we at Dobility have an unusual degree of freedom: for the most part, we...
5 Problems with 4th Industrial Revolution – Your Weekend Long Reads
Watching a video at UNESCO’s Mobile Learning Week produced by Huawaei on the Fourth Industrial Revolution reminded me of everything that is problematic and...
Please Submit Your Session Ideas for MERL Tech DC 2019
We gathered at the first MERL Tech Conference in 2014 to discuss how technology was enabling the field of monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL)....
DFID Names Top 10 ICT4D Trends for 2019
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) recently launched the Frontier Technology Livestreaming programme to help UKAid apply emerging technologies...
What Topics Do You Want to See on ICTworks?
Welcome to 2019! With the start of a new year, we want to continue our multi-year tradition of asking you, our loyal reader, what you want to read about, or better...
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