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)...
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
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...
Its 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 event. It has broad online coverage and participation. As such,...
Five Questions for Juanita Clark: Building Connectivity in A...
Meet Juanita Clark at the IEEE Virtual Salon: Connectivity and Access in the Era of COVID-19 Wednesday, October 27th. Register today! Africa has famously lagged in Internet access and...
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 women now and in future generations. Global development practitioners, including...
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 passionately involved when it became clear that there was a...
We Created a Tool to Help Predict COVID-19 Increases in Afri...
One of the obstacles if you are trying to guide policy and protect people from COVID-19 is the bewildering amount of data available every day. We are awash in...
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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IoT Technologies Should Increase Vaccination Rates in the Future
The biggest obstacles to achieving universal vaccination coverage worldwide come down to a lack of proper data monitoring. Vaccination...
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Needed: An Ecosystem for Meaningful Digital Innovation in Northern Kenya
The author, Jacob Mugendi, discusses this research on a panel in a recorded E4C Webinar, Digital Development in Kenya:...
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Contact Tracing Apps Can Work, If They Surmount Their Trust Problem
An emerging complementary measure to fight the coronavirus and flatten the new infection curve is the implementation of contact...
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Challenges in Implementing Digital Technologies in Rural Kenya
If you ask people in Nairobi where they might like to live if they didn’t have to worry about...
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Research Brief: How Digital Solutions May Enhance Social Financing
In July 2019, Siemens Stiftung, the foundation of the Siemens engineering firm, convened startup CEOs and experts in financing...
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