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After extensive pilot deployments across sub-Saharan Africa, I can finally share what MosquitAI delivers. And why the Gates Foundation committed $41.1 million today...
How to Leverage Digital Systems for Monitoring and Evaluation
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) systems are essential catalysts for transformation and capacity building within the international development sector. They give...
What is ICT4D, Tech4Good, and Digital Development in International Development?
In the ever-evolving landscape of international development, digital technology has been recognized as a critical tool for achieving impactful results. The intersection...
The Rise and Fall of Innovation Labs in International Development
“Innovation” has become a hugely popular word in the humanitarian and development sectors over the last 10 or 15 years. And amongst NGOs, UN agencies, and bilateral...
5 Things Humanitarian Innovators Can Learn From the Private Sector
While simplified stories of success from the private sector are often unhelpful for humanitarian innovators, there are things that we can learn from entrepreneurial...
6 Reasons Why We Keep Failing at Digital Development Interventions
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...
It is Time to Break Out of the Innovation Silo
As we know all too well, the pace of progress is falling far short of both the desperate needs in the world and the ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals....
7 Ways We Can Scale ICT4D Pilotitis
One overarching theme from the recent Mobiles! Conference was the need to get past pilotitis – the too many small projects that never scale, dying the day...
4 Learnings About Access to Information in Uganda
Beyond Access recently visited Uganda to learn more about local development priorities, how people are accessing information, and libraries. It was a fascinating...
The Choice Between Facebook and Running Water Isn’t Obvious
Over the past several years two seemingly independent ideas have been gaining traction:
New technology allows developing nations to leapfrog over traditional growth...
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