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The rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence – computers behaving like humans, and performing tasks which people usually carry out – promises to transform everything from car travel to personal finance. But how...

We’re experimenting with a roundup of the best links for your long-form reading pleasure over the weekend. Please let us know what you think about this idea in the post comments. The rapid uptake of mobile technology...

The Electronic Cash Transfer Learning Action Network (ELAN) works to improve the effectiveness and impact of digital payments in humanitarian response. Within this remit, we’ve hosted trade fairs where financial service...

At a previous employer, I was always shocked at the role of the national staff in the organization. Here were some of the smartest, most dedicated professionals I’ve met in international development, and yet the organization...

In most developing and emerging economies, governments are in principle the main providers of public goods such as justice, security, health and education, among others. However, this does not imply that governments themselves...

The surge in global refugees has had devastating effects on the education of affected children. Only 61% of refugee children have access to primary education, and only 23% have access to secondary school. Overall, refugee...

AgResults is a $122 million experiment designed to answer the following question: can incentive-based prize contests, notable for successes in spurring the aviation and space industries, help solve market failures in agricultural...

As a profession, the technology for social change field is at least a decade old. We can and should be working to professionalize, setting standards and improving practice, and developing a body of evidence on which we can...

The promise of digitally-enabled personalized learning dates back to the 1960s. As with many early predictions, it took decades before the potential began to be realized. For the first time we are seeing personalized learning...