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The COVID-19 pandemic created economic hardships and has had compounding impacts on many aspects of children’s lives. Many children who couldn’t access digital services – from education, to health, to social protection...

While simplified stories of success from the private sector are often unhelpful for humanitarian innovators, there are things that we can learn from entrepreneurial startup companies, particularly in how complexity and uncertainty...

As most of us in the humanitarian sector would recognise, the idea that NGO leaders are less savvy than their private sector counterparts does not ring true. Leaders of humanitarian organisations have exceptionally...

  The economic empowerment of women is a crucial development issue, with digital skills and tools are essential to helping business women cope with the economic shock from the pandemic and grow their businesses. ICT4D...

Digital development is at an inflection point. It is no longer a question of if we should use ICT4D for social and economic advancement, but when and how technology solutions can enhance our impact. National governments...

  Journalist and Nobel Prize laureate Maria Ressa captured the essential nature of the threat that the rising tide of mis- and disinformation poses in her recent Nobel acceptance speech. To paraphrase: Studies have shown...

The World Wide Web was originally conceived as an open protocol with value shared among decentralized systems and users. This Web 1.0 vision soon became Web 2.0 – highly centralized systems creating extremely profitable...

Clearing out boxes of old books and reports recently, I was struck by how many ICT4D initiatives there have been over the last 20 years, many of which have simply repeated the mistakes of their predecessors. Most have failed...

USAID is proposing to amend its Acquisition Regulation (AIDAR) to implement policy and procedures to clarify and streamline contractor reporting requirements related to digital information planning, collection, and submission...