Surprise! Digital agriculture raised incomes when it put a second buyer in front of the farmer so there is price competition at the farm gate ...

Impact Accelerator funds scale. It wants ventures with evidence that their model works and a credible route to major impact ...

It will only fund partnerships and each partnership can request up to US$1 million over two years. Winners also join a peer learning cohort and get Atlassian software and staff expertise. The ...

Large philanthropic money moves to organizations that can take large philanthropic money. Everything else about grant making is downstream of that. In August, I wrote on ICTworks that the new AI ...

FCDO is reclassifying digital out of development, and ICT4D will end up like WASH - fobbed off onto multilaterals and the private sector.

“Responsible AI” has emerged as the key concept for achieving peaceful and equitable human futures with AI. Responsible artificial intelligence refers to the design, development, deployment and ...

The global humanitarian system has been jolted by a sudden and drastic move: the US Secretary of State has frozen virtually all foreign aid and ordered a review of every program, based on the new ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to dramatically improve lives and livelihoods across the Republic of Rwanda, as well as make remarkable progress towards achievement of national ...

Gender gaps in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) studies become evident from a young age, with girls facing barriers including unequal access to digital assets and skills. Fewer than 1 ...

Opening fifteen browser tabs, with three of them showing 404 errors, Downloaded PDFs from three different ministry websites Asked a colleague in Nairobi or Lagos for the law nobody can find online ...

Africa is home to 18% of the world’s people but holds less than 1% of global data centre capacity, and only about 40% of its population is online. That gap in compute, connectivity, and digital skills ...

When this USA administration dismantled USAID, people noticed. Courts intervened. Senators held hearings. Aid workers went on television. The chaos was loud, and the resistance was proportional. When ...