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The agricultural sector makes a substantial contribution to GDP and livelihoods across the developing world. However, regular and reliable agricultural data remains difficult and expensive to collect on the ground. As a...
Published on: Aug 05 2021 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on It’s Time to Connect African Entrepreneurs to Global Venture Capital
When it comes to innovation, Africa has an abundance of entrepreneurial talent. Nowhere is early-stage, technology-driven innovation more exciting than it is in Africa right now. Comprised of 54 sovereign nations, it is...
Satellite communication plays a necessary role in the global connectivity ecosystem, connecting rural and remote populations, providing backhaul connectivity to mobile cellular networks, and rapidly establishing communication...
Access to financial services will play a critical role in economic growth and poverty reduction for the 1.2 billion people live on the African continent. The World Bank argues that financial inclusion has the potential to...
Published on: Jul 29 2021 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on 5 Methods for Decentering Digital Health in International Development
The use of digital health is not uniform across the world. In international cooperation, respectful engagement starts with ‘how we talk about digital health’. As technologies and intervention models emerge mostly from...
The central problem of software is that anything can be built.
With a physical structure, nature and physics puts some constraints on the space of ideas. With software, a project can be wholly completed and deployed and...
Published on: Jul 26 2021 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Apply Now: $400,000 to Study Social Media Impact on COVAX Uptake
COVID-19 vaccines will play a critical role in returning our societies to some sense of pre-pandemic normalcy and ultimately ending this crisis. As vaccines become increasingly available in all countries, the public health...
Around 15 per cent of the world’s population, or an estimated one billion people are persons with disabilities. Persons with disabilities are at a disadvantage regarding most Sustainable Development Goals.
Barriers to...
The humanitarian sector provides a unique opportunity to scale advanced approaches. Having worked as a researcher and as a humanitarian program manager there are hurdles in both organizational structures to do this.
Research...
COVID-19 has put a spotlight on the digital divide within, between countries and regions, making access to digital platforms and services a key priority to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The crisis is disproportionately...
