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Cross-post: Tackling COVID-19: A Problem So Big, You Can See It From Space
The world passed a grim milestone yesterday, as it reached 500 thousand cases of COVID-19. The pandemic is rapidly encompassing nearly all facets of life and demonstrating both how connected the…
SDG Building Block Demonstration
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the world’s shared plan to end extreme poverty, reduce inequality, and protect the planet by 2030. Targeted and responsible use of technology can help…
How DIAL Can Help the Response to COVID-19
With the growth in COVID-19 cases over the past few weeks, I have been thinking a lot about my work in global health, particularly Ebola, and how our work at the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) can…
What We Learned About Financing Digital Technology
This blog is part of a series aimed at exploring the scalability of financing digital technology and the procurement process for digital tools in the development sector, specifically for…
How Governments can use the Digital Principles to Enable Digital Transformation
In September 2018, the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) published the SDG Digital Investment Framework in partnership with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). This framework calls on…
The New Evaluation Frontier
Evaluation practice in the international development sector has evolved significantly over the last decade. It wasn’t that long ago that most development projects would only track output…
Moving Forward: The Need for Better Data
The digital age has led to enormous opportunities across the world and sub-Saharan Africa, but also significant challenges. This is an installment of a new DIAL insights series that explores some of…
Financing Digital Technologies: Conversations about Public Procurement
This blog is part of a series aimed at exploring the scalability of financing digital technology and the procurement process for digital tools in the development sector, specifically for…
In Digital Development, Responsible Data Use Must Be A Priority
Since we were founded, almost five years ago, one of the central tasks of the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) has been delivering prototypes and replicable models for digital data for development.…
Learning as we go in a fast-paced digital world
For the past five years, the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) has taken a human-centered design approach to our programming, including building, testing and conducting research with our partners,…