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In rural developing communities, access is often provided through slow satellite or other low- bandwidth long-distance wireless links, if available at all. As a result, the quality of Internet access is often poor and, at...

Whenever a new political administration ascends into power in the USA, each government agency writes a briefing book describing their efforts and aspirations. USAID is no different. Agency staff wrote a briefing book describing...

2017 is a few short weeks away, and it’s time to start thinking about how we might approach our work differently in the new year. On that theme, Troy Etulain and I came up with a few questions that can help us all think...

There are several projects that use mobile multimedia for health education in hard-to-reach rural settings, where video, being non-textual, enables the educational content to reach populations that cannot read. The missing...

  Recently, we sent out a survey on international development experiences with gender data to help inform the MERL Tech conference. We asked whether international development staff collected it in their work, how they...

Did you ever worry about the lack of porn in cybercafés? Or work on increasing World Cup viewership? What about a TV drama dissemination program? I thought not. So what can we learn from the most popular online activities? Entertainment...

Few technologies have undergone as radical a change as drones. Where five years ago, unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, or drones, were mainly seen as an instrument of war, today they are far more likely to be flown by a wedding...

We all want to be good at our jobs. We want to accomplish the things we set out to do. If we aren’t accomplishing them, we want to figure out why or try new solutions. The trend toward Adaptive M&E is exactly that:...

In software development, there is a term called “eating your own dog food” – meaning using your own software to better understand and address your users’ pain points. I’m proud to say that at Dimagi,...