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 ...

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 ...