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 Winners of the USAID Digital Development Awards are helping countries and communities work toward sustainable growth and resilience by building digital skills via telecenters in the Peruvian Amazon to using drones to...

Digital agriculture is important to the World Bank because it can help improve food security by making the food system more efficient, sustainable and equitable. Digital technologies can help reduce costs, increase productivity,...

Climate change and food security have an immutable link. Climate change has a cascading impact from agroecosystems to agricultural production, to the people and countries and ultimately consumers depending on reliable food...

The Global Digital Development Forum is returning for a 4th year on April 26-27, 2023. This year we will host a hybrid event, including an online conference for global participation and locally organized sessions for country-specific...

Over the past five years, nearly 1.4 billion people have gained access to the internet through a mobile phone and by the end of 2021, 55% of the world’s population was using mobile internet. This is providing people...

UNICEF’s Children’s Climate Risk Index reveals that 1 billion children (nearly half of the world’s child population) are at ‘extremely high risk’ of the devastating impacts of climate change. Sign Up Now for...

Almost 10 years ago, we predicted that the rise of advanced algorithms and open data would converge and a computer could to do your international development job one day. At the time, natural language processing that good...

Regulation of artificial intelligence is the need of the hour. The release of The Blueprint for An AI Bill of Rights (AIBoR) by the US White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is fitting. The Blueprint adds to...

The past decade has seen the United Kingdom’s government continue to evolve its strategy of “doing development in a digital world” from a sectoral lens towards a more holistic and comprehensive approach. The FCDO (Foreign,...