Surprise! Digital agriculture raised incomes when it put a second buyer in front of the farmer so there is price competition at the farm gate ...

Impact Accelerator funds scale. It wants ventures with evidence that their model works and a credible route to major impact ...

FCDO is reclassifying digital out of development, and ICT4D will end up like WASH - fobbed off onto multilaterals and the private sector.

It will only fund partnerships and each partnership can request up to US$1 million over two years. Winners also join a peer learning cohort and get Atlassian software and staff expertise. The ...

AI-native African companies took less than 2% of the continent’s startup funding in the first half of 2026, Grégoire de Padirac, CEO of Digital Africa, told BusinessDay. Over the same period, the ...

The WHO Mental Health Atlas 2024 counts a median of 1.1 to 2.4 specialized mental health workers per 100,000 people in low-income and lower-middle-income countries. High-income countries report 67.2, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Africa is home to 18% of the world’s people but holds less than 1% of global data centre capacity, and only about 40% of its population is online. That gap in compute, connectivity, and digital skills ...

The AI Startup Program from the Accra-based Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology that has trained African software entrepreneurs since 2008, is open for the 2027 cohort, offering select ...

Nonprofits in the Global South are now 35% more capable of digitalizing than their Global North peers, according to NetHope’s 2024 Digital Nonprofit Ability assessment. The catch: capability does not ...

Part 2 of a three-part series. Part 1: Sovereign AI is a Nvidia sales channel. The trap is real. The escape route is also real, and most strategy documents have not caught up to it. For most of the ...