informed consent assumes the user understands data privacy, which is a false assumption for the next billion internet users in lmics ...

AI Incubator is a six-month program with biweekly mentoring, sponsored travel, and a $10,000 fellowship for senior African drug researchers ...

AI-native African companies took less than 2% of the continent’s startup funding in the first half of 2026, Grégoire de Padirac, CEO of Digital Africa, told BusinessDay. Over the same period, the ...

Published reports that are not acted on are a waste of everyone's time and money. We need to move from "publish or perish" to "impact or die" ...

Chief of Party, GBI Alliance: In 2010, NetHope and USAID formed the Global Broadband and Innovations (GBI) Alliance with the goal of providing leadership on a range ...

Are we building AI systems backwards, evaluating them wrongly, and then wondering why our multi-million dollar algorithms fail to deliver the outcomes we promised donors? After analyzing the latest ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly emerging as a transformative force in shaping new possibilities for economic development, social inclusion, and innovation in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs ...

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 ...

“Innovation” has become a hugely popular word in the humanitarian and development sectors over the last 10 or 15 years. And amongst NGOs, UN agencies, and bilateral and multilateral agencies there has ...

In the modern world, the ability to innovate with technology defines the path to development. For Brazil, I believe it is time to claim our space in the rising wave of generative AI. Follow #GenAI4Dev ...

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 ...

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 ...