Five Questions with Dr. Kommy Weldemariam, IBMs Master Inven...
Komminist Weldemariam is IBM’s first Master Inventor in the company’s African labs. Kommy, as he is known, owns 65...
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
ICT in the DRC: Challenges, Solutions and Opportunity
Poor Internet access and a lack of electricity cripple startups and other commerce in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the same time, however, the challenges present interesting opportunities...
Hello Tractors Business-Saving Pivot from Hardware to Softwa...
The “smart” tractor company closed its manufacturing operation to focus on agricultural ICT. By September of 2016, an agricultural technology startup called Hello Tractor had built and sold 55...
A Better Portable Air Quality Monitor
Camera sensors and machine learning may make portable air quality monitoring more cost effective and accurate. Ever wondered how much of the brown haze over a city’s skyline is...
Mapping Precedents and Techniques: A Review
Digital tools have changed how mapping is performed in two ways: the tools can be used by anyone anywhere, and complex layers of data can now be collected that...
Love and ICT improving waste management in Maputo
As the first sun rays cross the Indian Ocean and hit the streets of Maputo, waste collectors begin their work in the Mozambican capital. The city is improving its...
Video: How the ITU Views ICTs for Global Development
For four days in September, 2017, the International Telecommunication Union convened representatives of industry, governments, non-profits and other experts in internet and communications technologies in Busan, South Korea. ITU...
Featured ICT Solution
Reinvented Toilets Take on a Lack of Sanitation Access with Internet Connectivity and Waste Processing
Nine startups that are reinventing the toilet have won spots as finalist candidates for the Toilet Board Coalition’s accelerator...
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Five Questions for Brahima Sanou, Director of ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau (ITU-D)
Brahima Sanou has taken the wheel at the Telecommunication Development Bureau of the International Telecommuniction Union (ITU) at a...
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Five Questions for Dr. Chaesub Lee, Director of the ITU Telecommunications Standardization Bureau
The mobile phone revolution in developing countries was possible in large part because of standards in Internet and communications...
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Ten ICTs Connecting Farmers to the World
Internet and communications technologies have transformed farms in the world’s developing and underserved communities. In the past, digital tools...
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Evaluating Development Technology: Quantitative and Qualitative Recommendations
Every year, thousands of products are distributed to communities in low-resource settings. Unfortunately, many of these products are underused...
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Fighting Latin American corruption with civic tech: Five questions for Anca Matioc
Growing up in Romania, political corruption was a family dinner conversation, and Anca Matioc has translated that ingrained interest...
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Learning to Teach ICT4D: 10 Principles Gleaned from Two Decades in the Classroom and the Field
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about teaching ICT4D, it’s that every project needs to be a hybrid between...
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Explore ICTs in Global Development at ITU Telecom World 2017
Artificial intelligence can crunch the numbers on inconceivably large volumes of data, predicting trends, mitigating problems, driving a revolution...
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Algorithmic analysis of satellite data and a new offline tool monitor deforestation worldwide
Despite its protected status, deforestation threatens the Leuser Ecosystem, 2.6 million hectares (6.5 million acres) of rainforest on the...
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Fixing the world’s rural roads with a shovel and a phone app
For those of us who don’t know what it’s like to live at the end of a poorly maintained...
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