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Artificial intelligence and machine learning based solutions hold a promise of becoming a transformative force in multiple facets of humanitarian and development work. However, alongside this lies the potential of negative...

 The prediction and management of floods is a critical humanitarian issue in regions lacking hydrological data. Floods disproportionately affect developing countries due to the absence of dense streamflow gauge networks. Global...

Free public Wi-Fi Internet access holds transformative potential for Nigeria’s youth, providing critical opportunities for education, employment, and social inclusion in a country where internet access remains limited...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can help support climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as climate science, across many different areas, for example energy, agriculture, forestry, climate...

The current involvement of the private sector in the technopolitics of development, and specifically Big Tech, differs substantially from the role that it took during the 1980s. Back then, the privatization of public assets...

The mixed-methods assessment of community health data in ‘Do you trust those data?’—a mixed-methods study assessing the quality of data reported by community health workers in Kenya and Malawi, found large discrepancies...

There are more than 7,000 human languages, yet only those few used by the world’s economically and politically powerful nations have a strong online presence in digital platforms. For example, a language like Swahili,...

Digital environments can bring harms to children and young people, especially the worst forms, namely online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA) and other existing or emerging forms of online violence against children...

Using artificial intelligence for fundraising… yup, there’s a bot for that! Savvy software developers are building AI fundraising tools faster than donation appeals on Giving Tuesday. We can now use Generative AI...