The nonprofit sector is all a-twitter about the coming “third wave” of AI-fueled philanthropy, inspired by an article from Nan Ransohoff. The debates range from “this is the biggest thing ever to hit ...

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 ...

The WHO Mental Health Atlas 2024 counts a median of 1.1 to 2.4 specialized mental health workers per 100,000 people in low-income and lower-middle-income countries. High-income countries report 67.2, ...

Internet access keeps expanding, but the gender gap has stopped closing. ITU data for 2025 shows 77% of men online against 71% of women, about 280 million more men than women connected. The gender ...

India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Rules take full effect on 13 May 2027. If your program collects data from anyone in India, you have nine months, and your consent checkbox will not suffice.

African startups raising between $100,000 and $1 million fell from 179 deals in the second half of 2025 to just 100 in the first half of 2026, a 44% drop in exactly the segment that funds first ...

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 ...

The AI Startup Program from the Accra-based Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology that has trained African software entrepreneurs since 2008, is open for the 2027 cohort, offering select ...

Nonprofits in the Global South are now 35% more capable of digitalizing than their Global North peers, according to NetHope’s 2024 Digital Nonprofit Ability assessment. The catch: capability does not ...

Part 2 of a three-part series. Part 1: Sovereign AI is a Nvidia sales channel. The trap is real. The escape route is also real, and most strategy documents have not caught up to it. For most of the ...