Ethiopias 8028 Hotline: Aiding farmers through text and inte...
Ethiopia’s new 8028 Hotline has handled a deluge of calls from farmers looking for agricultural information. The Ethiopia Agricultural Transformation Agency’s...
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
A new charitable giving platform vets Indian nonprofits to g...
It’s easy to forgive indecision when it comes to donating to a worthy cause in India. A bird’s eye view shows at least 3.3 million nonprofit organizations in the...
Case study: How an offline CRM helps a biogas business expan...
Sistema Biobolsa began its operations developing and selling biogas systems in Latin America using organizational tools like spreadsheet software and note taking. But now the business has sold 3200...
A new digital tool takes the guesswork out of making compres...
An experienced soil analyst can discover clues about the dirt with little more than water, a jar and a knife. Soil varies from site to site, and those variations...
10 mThings Changing Lives in Developing Countries
Mobile applications are transforming the livelihoods of millions of people around the world, including in low-income settings and rural areas. These apps, SMS- and voice-based services are improving health, financial inclusion,...
How mobile tech improves global sanitation: Research brief o...
The mobile phone boom of the last decade has given rise to the often-repeated fact that more people worldwide have access to a phone than to a toilet. The...
New open-source tools analyze sites for small hydropower gen...
Micro-hydropower generators rely on the natural flow of a river or stream, unaided by reservoirs to regulate the water delivered to the system. That means that these run-of-river generators...
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Why Is it So Hard to Do Something New in ICT4D?
Three years is long a lifetime, longer in the time it takes technology to change, but short in institutional...
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ICT4D infrastructure: How two kinds of technologies are putting the whole world online
When Google announced its Project Loon plan in 2013, reactions ranged from scoff to swoon. But with real-world tests...
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Putting the world’s impoverished communities online: Five questions for Bob Marsh
Bob Marsh is a household name and the subject of dinner party conversations in a certain kind of household and...
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Don’t toss it… Fix it! How to find the information you need to repair electronics and appliances
By Janet Gunter Co-Founder of The Restart Project Electronic waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams around...
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3D Printing with E-Waste: Five Questions for Roy Ombatti
Roy Ombatti turns sobering e-waste statistics around by using the waste to build salable 3D printers. The world generates...
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TMI! How Knowledge Platforms Tame the Information Overload and Advance Global Development Through Technology
Despite the ubiquity of online information, and arguably because of it, finding reliable data to inform decisions about technology...
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Applications of Big Data for Development
Big data for development has many definitions, but one that is used most often refers to the analysis of...
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How to use big data to make sure that financial inclusion is inclusive
InVenture is a data science company that builds financial identities for people who previously had none. Using over 10,000...
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Five Questions with Shashi Buluswar and Subarna Mitra, Institute for Transformative Technologies
Two years ago, a small team from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley, Calif. released an enormous volume...
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How the Internet of Things Is Improving Lives and Livelihoods in Developing Countries
Wirelessly connected sensors, actuators and other hardware have already changed global development work, and signs point to bigger changes...
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