Winning Funding Proposals Written by Generative AI: Should That Matter to You?
Generative AI is getting better every day. We now have ChatGPT4, Claude 3, Gemini, Perplexity, and whole gamut of specialized GenAI tools that await your discovery....
How to Win USAID Request for Proposal Submission Funding in 2024
Responding to a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Request for Proposal (RFP) is a complex, detailed process that demands thorough understanding,...
6 Ways You Can Win More Grant Funding and Startup Investments
At the Global Digital Development Forum, I led a discussion on how we can fund locally-led digital development organizations. Our goal was to explore questions...
DHIRT: How Donors Will Evaluate Your Digital Health Proposal
It’s no secret that donors like USAID, DFID, and the Gates Foundation, and national governments struggle to evaluate digital health solutions embedded in program...
Apply Now: $1 Million for New Biometric Tools and Chatbots for Digital Financial Services
Caribou Digital has launched the DFS Tech imitative to engage scientists, researchers, and engineers to solve hard technical challenges in financial inclusion,...
The Most Influential USAID Paragraph on Mobile Money
Back in December 2011, I organized a Technology Salon on mobile money with Menekse Gencer and Priya Jaisinghani to figure out how we could increase mobile money...
How to Improve Technology Tenders in ICT for Development
Yet again, I see another government tender for technology to improve the social and economic development of a country that is based around processor speed or operating...
Four Challenges with USAID’s Grand Challenges for Development
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USAID recently launched its second Grand Challenge for Development, All Children Reading, that follows on the earlier Saving Lives at Birth. Both of these endeavors...
USAID Request for Proposals: All Children Reading Grand Challenge for Development
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), and World Vision (collectively referred...
5 Steps to Win Technology Tenders and ICT Requests for Proposals
I recently had the opportunity to sit on a tender selection committee for an organization where I am involved at the board level. This is an organization that has...