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Recently, I was rural India with VSO International checking in on Samadhan, a citizen engagement software program that connects marginalized communities to the local government petitioning process. We visited the District...

Please register now for ICTforAg 2016 on June 10th, at FHI 360 in Washington, DC. This 1-day conference will build on ICTforAg 2015 and bring together +275 thought leaders and decision makers in agriculture and technology...

At the Digital Development: From Principles to Practice Forum, ICT4D practitioners came together to discuss the inherent tensions between open and interoperable data for transparency and performance improvement, while also...

The development and policy spaces have seen the use of data to drive decision making and increase impact. Non-profit and government organisations are using data to inform decisions, such as how much money to invest in a...

Whenever I look at publications produced by development organizations, including those I’ve written, I can’t help but wonder if all of those smiling people pictured within could have even imagined how far their...

The 2016 UNESCO Mobile Learning Week kicked off last Monday with a webinar entitled Innovation and quality: Two sides of the same coin? The virtual event, held in partnership with Education Fast Forward, debated the extent...

Poverty reduction efforts in many developing countries often take the form of household water filters, community hand-driven water pumps, improved wood, charcoal or kerosene cookstoves, and pit latrines. Improving access...

The number of technology tools to support digital payments and vouchers can be overwhelming, especially in humanitarian response, where time is limited and situations change rapidly. The Electronic Cash Transfer Learning...

On Leap Day, Feb 29, over 260 people, representing more than 150 organizations participated in a Digital Development event held at FHI 360. It was an effort to celebrate the newly published report, From Principle to Practice:...