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ICTforAg services and solutions disseminated through mobile phones offer the promise to connect millions of smallholder farmers and improve their access to agricultural information. While new ICT4Ag solutions come online...
In today’s operating environment, every business needs access to cloud-based computing infrastructure. Nonprofit organizations are no different.
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NGOs also need access to cloud technology...
As the old adage goes, you can’t improve what you don’t measure. When it comes to containing the COVID-19 pandemic in the world’s poorest countries, there is a lot – too much – that we do not measure, especially...
Being a young Zimbabwean who holds no faith in our banking system – mobile money has been a big part of my life. Around 49% of Zimbabweans are registered with a mobile money service. 1 in 2 Zimbos is a significant number...
The novel coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated challenges in Africa’s education system and reinforces the need for innovative and scalable COVID-19 Digital Response solutions in education.
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A year ago, we wanted to understand how online gender-based violence manifests across Africa, and how technology companies, which are often based out of Africa, respond to this violence.
One year and 3,300+ interviews later,...
Since the onset of coronavirus, the EduTech Hub Helpdesk Team has responded to requests from DFID advisers and World Bank staff across 15 countries across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East to review and provide input on...
Around the world, countless people face daily inequalities. There’s no country in the world where girls and women have equal opportunities to boys and men. The world’s poorest people suffer most from the climate...
Published on: Aug 27 2020 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on Are You Deploying Technologies of Disempowerment?
As noted in Technologies of Disempowerment, several technological systems for welfare delivery and social security in India have ended up disempowering many people, while aiming to solve problems for them. For example, biometric...
Published on: Aug 26 2020 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on 3 Lessons Learned Implementing Digital Health Systems During COVID-19
In early 2020, when COVID-19 emerged as a global pandemic and urgent public health crisis, countries all over the world scrambled to develop a rapid and effective response to limit the introduction of COVID-19 through their...