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Scale Up to Hyderabad
Next week, the ninth annual ICT4D Conference will bring together local implementers, international NGOs, donors and technology providers from around the world to Hyderabad, India. The focus of the…
The Future of Data-Driven Agriculture
Last week USAID and the Sustainability Innovation Lab at CU-Boulder (SILC) hosted a two-day interactive workshop on leveraging big data to further agricultural development around the globe. The…
Overcoming the Digital Gender Divide: International Girls in ICT Day
In early 2016 I visited a tech hub in Freetown, Sierra Leone that had been established by a young innovator who was passionate about advancing technology in his home country. The Sensi Tech Hub…
Can Open Source Deliver the Dream of Digital Development?
Next year will mark 20 years since the term "open source software" was officially coined, and the “free software” movement has been around even longer. But in the international development…
The Potential of Data for Development
The rise in the use of digital technologies – particularly mobile phones – has led to an exponential rise in digital data. A lot of new data is being generated by people in communities that have…
Providing Sustainable Access to Underserved Populations By Aggregating Core Mobile Services
Despite the growth of smartphone adoption and mobile internet access around the world, the majority of underserved populations in emerging markets still depend on core mobile channels – primarily…
Cross-Post: From Texts to Tweets to Satellites: The Power of Big Data to Fill Gender Data Gaps
Twitter posts, credit card purchases, phone calls, and satellites are all part of our day-to-day digital landscape. Detailed data, known broadly as “big data” because of the massive amounts…
Making Better Use of Technology to Meet the SDGs
The Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) and the ITU (the UN’s information and computing technology agency) have joined forces and launched a program of work aimed at using technology to help the…
My Takeaway from AeHIN: The Critical Interoperability Layer is People
Last week in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, over 300 representatives from South and Southeast Asia Ministries of Health and global digital health experts gathered for the fifth general meeting of the Asian…
Cross-Post: What Does The Rise of Digital Development Mean for NGOs?
Matt Haikin, an ICT for Development (ICT4D) practitioner, summarizes a new paper on digital development in East Africa reports and the challenges for Oxfam and other international NGOs. I’d…