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

In 2024, the World Health Organization received reports of 14.4 million dengue cases, its highest global burden on record. Indonesia reported 257,271 cases and India reported 232,425. An early warning ...

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

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?

UNICEF Femtech Ventures program now seeks applicants with AI, machine learning, blockchain and data science applications in three pillars ...

On October 18, Anthropic said it would commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, an LLC that could make large donations to nonprofits or direct distributions to specific ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...