Practical Insights on Scale

Apply Now! $100,000 UNDP Grant Funding to Scale Your Digital Solution

Apply Now! $100,000 UNDP Grant Funding to Scale Your Digital Solution

Published on: May 09 2022 by Wayan Vota - 28 Comments
UNDP created the Chief Digital Office in 2019 and observed hundreds of digital projects and challenges faced by UNDP, governments, and partners. From this experience,...
How to Scale Your Impact with Internal Communications

How to Scale Your Impact with Internal Communications

Published on: Aug 20 2018 by Catholic Relief Services - Comments Off on How to Scale Your Impact with Internal Communications
I am a technical nerd and I’ve struggled for years to understand why solutions I worked on did not get widespread adoption or go to scale.  I’ve learned...
7 Step Guide to Making Your Digital Development Program Sustainable

7 Step Guide to Making Your Digital Development Program Sustainable

Published on: Apr 25 2018 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on 7 Step Guide to Making Your Digital Development Program Sustainable
While there are how to guides and toolkits to plan the initial implementation of a digital development program, there are fewer guides for the issues that organizations...
If You Really Want to Scale ICT4D to Millions, Abandon Africa

If You Really Want to Scale ICT4D to Millions, Abandon Africa

Published on: Aug 07 2015 by Wayan Vota - 20 Comments
We all talk a good game about how we want to scale ICT4D programs. How we want to reach 100,000 or even +1 million constituents with our cool technology solutions....
7 Ways We Can Scale ICT4D Pilotitis

7 Ways We Can Scale ICT4D Pilotitis

Published on: Oct 09 2013 by Wayan Vota - 8 Comments
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...
Join the Mobiles for Youth Workforce Development Twitter Chat on Scale – Today!

Join the Mobiles for Youth Workforce Development Twitter Chat on Scale – Today!

Published on: May 07 2013 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Join the Mobiles for Youth Workforce Development Twitter Chat on Scale – Today!
The Mobiles for Youth Workforce Development (mYWD) Working Group, an initiative of the mEducation Alliance in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation and USAID,...
Want to Scale ICT4D Projects? Stop Developing Software!

Want to Scale ICT4D Projects? Stop Developing Software!

Published on: Mar 29 2013 by Wayan Vota - 5 Comments
Recently Priya Jaisinghani, Teressa Trusty, and I brought together a few folks to have an informal Technology Salon around the pertinent question of how can the...
Mobile Phone Math: ICT4D Scale in the Millions

Mobile Phone Math: ICT4D Scale in the Millions

Published on: Oct 08 2010 by Matt Berg - Comments Off on Mobile Phone Math: ICT4D Scale in the Millions
I’ve been working or interested in the space of ICT for Development (ICT4D) for about a decade now. During this time, I’ve seen a lot of exciting changes, but...
Development Innovation Ventures: Seed Funding for Scale from USAID

Development Innovation Ventures: Seed Funding for Scale from USAID

Published on: Aug 04 2010 by Wayan Vota - 12 Comments
USAID has just announced a very compelling program for all those who want to see scale in international development. The Development Innovation Ventures Annual...