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The original post was featured on GSMA Conference Confidential and can be found here. The Mobile 360 Africa series brings together leaders from Africa’s technology and telecom industries for one…
By Michael Downey In the technology field, late Summer and early Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere is the traditional conference season — a time for colleagues to pause to reconnect…
When I moved to Vermont, I spent a year working as an AmeriCorps/VISTA volunteer on adult literacy, which was a powerful and eye-opening experience into the world of public health…
Blog post from Syed Raza, DIAL, and Jonathan Gray, Flowminder. Timely, accurate, high-resolution information on populations distributions, characteristics and movements are key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Data…
There is little doubt that mobile plays a critical role in facilitating services for the developing world and in collective efforts to advance the Sustainable Development Goals. Governments are beginning…
By Michael Downey, OSC Director of Community At the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) Open Source Center, one of our values is the belief that the techniques evolved by the free…
By Michael M. Lokshin, Sardar Azari and Zurab Sajaia This blog post is originally featured on the World Bank Group’s Data Blog, found here “Every company is a technology company”. This idea, popularized…
By Joanne Peter, Johnson & Johnson As patient groups go, pregnant women and new mothers are among the most motivated. They’re eager for information on how to care for themselves and…
By 2018, 3.6 billion people – half of the world’s population – are estimated to be using mobile messaging applications. The growth of messaging applications such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger,…
By Innovate DFID (Department for International Development UK) DFID is delighted to become the 100th organisation to endorse the Principles for Digital Development! They are good practice guidelines for doing development in…
