8+ hour, 9+ min ago   (222+ words) 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 number of African startups raising at least $100,000 fell to 190, the…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (643+ words) The conventional wisdom about small and medium enterprises in developing countries sounds reasonable enough: build more fiber optic cables, expand mobile coverage, launch digital literacy campaigns, and eventually SMEs will adopt technology. I’ve watched this supply-side playbook unfold across sub-Saharan…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (286+ words) 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, and spend US$65.89 per person against under a dollar. People in that gap type their problems…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1470+ words) Humanitarian procurement is good at buying things that stay bought. A water tank is the same water tank the day after you sign for it. An algorithmic system is not, and that one difference breaks the current purchasing process. The…...

1+ week, 6+ day 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…...

2+ week, 6+ day 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…...

3+ week, 3+ 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…...

3+ week, 4+ 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…...

3+ week, 6+ day 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…...