AI for Ethiopia: Harnessing Technology to Combat Poverty - The Borgen Project
Hemant Gupta-The Borgen Project
The burgeoning internet user base of Ethiopia presents an opportunity to leverage AI to combat poverty and promote sustainable development.
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Plantix #1 FREE app for crop diagnosis and treatments
PEAT GmbH-Plantix
Grow your farming success with Plantix – get a free crop diagnosis, customised solutions, and increase your knowledge to boost crop production.
What Are Drones Doing Cheaper And Faster In Burkina Faso?
Andrew Wight-Forbes
In Burkina Faso, in Africa's Sahel region, a group of drone operators is making the surveying of land for irrigation and agriculture more accurate, quicker and cheaper.
UNGA: How digital technologies can accelerate progress towards the SDGs
Vodafone.com
Joakim Reiter, Vodafone Group’s Chief External and Corporate Affairs Officer, spoke at SDG Digital at the ECOSOC Chamber at UN’s Headquarters in New York during a session showcasing solutions to achieve the SDGs through Digital Technologies.
Putting Poverty Back on the Map: Introducing the World Bank’s New Geospatial Poverty Portal
World Bank Blogs
The conditions and circumstances of people across the world cannot be boiled down to only national averages. Within the same country, economic development can be unbalanced, with some regions benefiting from growth while others lag.
Digital technology: Promoting the use of Togolese national languages
Global Voices
In Togo, despite government intentions to promote the teaching of national languages other than French, this promotion mainly comes from private online initiatives.
Science, Technology, Innovation key To Africa's Development | News Ghana
News Ghana
Mr Michael Owusu, Chief Operating Officer of KGL Group, a wholly-owned Ghanaian group of companies in tech-based related services, has said Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) are key components Africa needs to foster economic and social development. He commended the steps Africa had taken in various fields including Medicine, Engineering…
Gender Digital Divide High In Poor Countries Says UNICEF Report
Harshita Kumari-Feminism in India
UNICEF's latest finding on the digital divide’s gender dimension further extends the worrisome findings, as the data pointed out that the largest gap was observed in South Asia, where adolescent boys and young men were favoured by 27 percentage points over their female counterparts.
90% of adolescent girls and young women in poor countries are deprived of the Internet
Globe Echo
A report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stated that the Internet is not available to 90% of adolescent girls and young women in the poorest countries, in a higher percentage than that of males within the same age group, stressing the role that education plays in this disparity. In 2020, UNICEF and the […]
Frontier technologies can make big inroads on inequality
University World News
Extending Synchrotron technologies to Latin America and the Caribbean and Africa – the areas of the world with the most pressing development problem...
The Solution to Poverty Is Prosperity, With Magatte Wade
While African countries embrace emerging and innovative technologies, the U.S. appears to be applying the brakes in an unexpected manner.
How tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India
Rest of World
Vegetable carts, flower shops, mom-and-pop stores: Small speakers that read out digital payment receipts are making fintech companies big money.
Going digital makes aid programs more effective
MIT Technology Review
Poor households are more likely to get fed when rice deliveries are swapped out for debit cards.
Mobile Internet Is Changing Employment in Developing Countries, but Not Always as Expected - ProMarket
ProMarket
Scholars and policymakers have put much faith into the prospect of internet connectivity catalyzing development in low- and middle-income countries. In new research, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg and Gaurav Chiplunkar find that improved 3G coverage does lead to better employment opportunities for individuals and higher female labor force participation. However, these new opportunities mostly reflect the […]
How Will Technology Transform Global Education In 2023? | Entrepreneur
Divya Jain-Entrepreneur
Looking ahead to 2025, experts project that global spending across digital education will surpass $350 billion, highlighting the growing significance of technology in the education sector
Only 36% of Least Developed Countries’ Population Use the Internet
Oussama Aamari - Morocco World News-https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/
Approximately 720 million people in the world’s least developed countries (LDCs) did not have internet access in 2022, according to a new report by the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
