Within a few years, I expect most people will meet their government and their NGO service provider through an AI agent ...

Health lost the most dollars. DRG lost the largest proportion. Moving USAID programs to State Department didn't preserve foreign aid.

Private investors put 6% of healthcare investment into women’s health, according to the World Economic Forum’s Women’s Health Investment Outlook. The report found that 90% of that money lands in just ...

Samasource said its workers saw a 4x income increase after four years, and that it wanted workers to move on within two years. Did it happen?

UNESCO estimates that 57% of the world’s children lack basic skills. Sub-Saharan African economies pay the steepest price. UNESCO projects they will lose 26% of GDP in 2030 if children there fail to ...

Last December I told Belal Jahjooh he was right about digital agriculture. I was right about the wrong half of it. Jahjooh’s policy paper, Born Poor, Die Poor, argues that “digital solutions cannot ...

Imagine this: one founder, typing alone on a Tuesday night, building an agentic swarm to solve a social problem in the United States. While she sleeps, her agents read 4,000 Medicaid renewal packets, ...

Large philanthropic money moves to organizations that can take large philanthropic money. Everything else about grant making is downstream of that. In August, I wrote on ICTworks that the new AI ...

In January 2012, Uganda’s Ministry of Health issued a moratorium halting new eHealth projects. Donors and NGOs had piloted up to 80 different mHealth applications in Uganda in 2008, and none of them ...

In 2024, 79% of adults worldwide held a financial account. Only 56% could reliably find extra money in an emergency. The World Bank’s Global Findex 2025 reports both numbers, and the 23-point gap ...

Mobile money will not grow much further until people use it to pay their utility bills. That is where digital development’s clearest success story is stuck. Across Africa, people use mobile money ...