African Digital Innovators Are Turning Plastic Waste into Va...
Plastic pollution is a growing global menace. Between 2010 and 2020, the global production of plastics increased from 270...
Engineering for Change
Interest: ICT
The boom in mobile phone ownership has been one of the unanticipated success stories of global development. And with all of that computing power in the hands of so many people, software engineers are at the leading edge of the work to improve lives. Other electronic hardware is also gaining momentum, with innovations like e-readers, drones and 3D printers. These tools are how communities can leapfrog over phases of development to catch up with the pack.
Interest: ICT
Silicon Continent
Across Sub-Saharan Africa, government and private-sector leaders see high tech as the way to boost industrial development. Governments like to promote the good news and hide the bad, which...
Cryptographic Institutions Part Three: Honest Governance
This post is part of a three-part series that explores the power of new information technologies, in particular cryptography, to profoundly benefit humanity, creating new ways for social and...
Cryptographic Institutions Part Two: Equitable Markets
This post is part of a three-part series that explores the power of new information technologies, in particular cryptography, to profoundly benefit humanity, creating new ways for social and...
Cryptographic Institutions Part One: Humanitarian Identity
This post is part of a three-part series that explores the power of cryptography and other new information technologies to benefit humanity, creating new ways for social and economic...
Gender Bias in Data and Tech
This article details tech-facilitated direct harms (online GBV) and indirect harms (algorithmic bias, data bias, data security, gender-blind tech) against women and girls. This is a follow up article...
Five Questions for George Chege: Bringing Chick Brooders int...
George Chege is bringing Kenyan chicken farms into the digital age, deploying sensors, heat bulbs and SMS to streamline operations. Kenyan poultry farmers have traditionally heated their chick brooders...
It’s Time for a Global Green Certification for ICT
For many of us around the world, COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, is a virtual...
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Five Questions for Juanita Clark: Building Connectivity in Africa
Meet Juanita Clark at the IEEE Virtual Salon: Connectivity and Access in the Era of COVID-19 Wednesday, October 27th....
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Checking Under the Dashboard: Gender Bias in Data and Tech
This article reveals the often-overlooked consequences of excluding women’s voices from the development of technology. The result is harming...
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Building Open Source Into Procurement
I believe in solving problems at the root. I’ve been using open source software for decades, but became more...
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We Created a Tool to Help Predict COVID-19 Increases in African Countries
One of the obstacles if you are trying to guide policy and protect people from COVID-19 is the bewildering...
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E4C Visualized: Drowning in E-Waste
For a punch in the gut, try these visual representations of the amount of electronics the world discards every...
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The STI Forum Delivers Innovation for Sustainable Development
From ultrasound on a mobile phone to robo-calls for fortified wheat: the STI Forum delivered innovation for sustainable development....
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Robots Are Coming and the Fallout Will Harm Marginalized Communities
COVID-19 has brought about numerous, devastating changes to people’s lives globally. With the number of cases rising across Canada...
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Simprints Puts Faces (and Fingerprints) to Names
Editor’s note: The U.K. biometrics startup Simprints is developing ways of identifying the hundreds of millions of people whose...
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The Digital Divide: How Virtual Technology Can Help Close Gaps in Professional Training
The pandemic has changed working conditions across every sector and industry. Our homes have become places of work with...
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