1+ hour, 1+ min ago   (1315+ words) Billions in new philanthropic AI wealth are heading toward international development. I wanted to know what the frontier AI models had to say about digital health absorbing that money. I wrote a test and handed the identical prompt to OpenAI’s…...

1+ week, 45+ min ago   (1192+ words) More new charitable wealth has been created in the last two years than the entire Gates Foundation endowment. Most of the international development sector is not organized to receive any of it. That is a solvable problem, and some people…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (271+ words) 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 parity score has sat at 0.92 since 2019, six years of growth…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (694+ words) Recently, ICTWorks raised a valid alarm: voice-only interfaces are often failing small businesses in low- and middle-income countries. We’ve spent years at CLEAR Global documenting that the problem isn’t the interface, but the foundational data. Voice technology is currently built…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (1387+ words) 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. The sector read the November 2025 notification as GDPR arriving…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1105+ words) Ask how ready Timor-Leste’s young people are for artificial intelligence and the honest answer splits in two. They use it more than almost any peer group in Southeast Asia. They can do less with it than almost any peer group…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (745+ words) Africa has 50 data centers that Uptime Institute has physically inspected and certified as built to Tier III or Tier IV. Morocco holds 17 of them, more than three times the next country, and it is almost never the one anyone names first…...

4+ week, 1+ hour ago   (1183+ words) The most exciting federal AI language of 2026 is buried in a scoping services contract, and it has nothing to do with buying AI. The government contracting world has spent eighteen months covering the post-OMB M-25-22 wave of AI contract language as…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (1371+ words) A new study in the International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science surveyed 200 women micro-entrepreneurs in Bengaluru and reported that 32.5% of them are “actively using at least one AI-enabled tool” in their businesses. The tools, according to the…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (914+ words) How many digital health conferences start with the same tired promise: “We just need to digitalize everything and health data quality will magically improve.” After reviewing PATH’s comprehensive assessment of primary health care data systems across Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya,…...