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Billions of people all over the world use WhatsApp to stay connected to friends and family. It is a key tool to provide vulnerable, disempowered and minority communities with easy and secure access to vital information...
Published on: Jul 24 2025 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on What It Really Takes for Technology Pilots to Become Public Policy
If you’ve spent any time in the world of digital development, you know the pattern: a promising tech pilot launches with donor fanfare, shows early results, but then… fizzles out before reaching true scale.
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This is your final chance to submit GDHF abstracts to share your digital health innovations, challenges, and lessons learned with a global community of peers, implementers, policymakers, funders, and technologists.
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African countries need genuinely innovative approaches to addressing climate and digital transformation challenges. Technology innovations that fill gaps or solve pressing problems in a unique or significantly improved
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Published on: Jul 15 2025 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on Why Digital Public Infrastructure Orientation Determines Development Impact
When Facebook’s global outage in 2021 disrupted COVID-19 health updates for millions in Argentina and other countries, it exposed an uncomfortable reality that our most vulnerable populations depend on infrastructure...
Rapid technological advancement promises tremendous benefits, but it also risks exacerbating socio-economic disparities and deepening social divisions.
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Surprise! Most cybersecurity guidance for rural communities in developing countries is actually harmful. Groundbreaking research from rural Ghana shows that well-intentioned security programs have made vulnerable populations...
Digital skills and technology solutions are more critical for African economies as they embrace digital transformation. Countries are positioning themselves as major tech hubs as the world goes virtual.
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Published on: Jul 03 2025 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Public Infrastructure Can Transform Service Delivery
The humanitarian sector stands at the cusp of a technological revolution that could fundamentally transform how we deliver services to the world’s most vulnerable populations. A new research paper from University College...
I’ve been building open source software technology for NGOs for over a decade, and I have a confession: we’ve been living a lie.
For years, I firmly believed that open source was the moral imperative that would...
