Every day, country leaders face barriers to delivering essential digital services to their population. We’re actively reconfiguring how the world of digital transformation operates and making sure that investments go to the right places in the right ways.

To better understand population movements and help the Ministry of Health establish new health services in Malawi, we partnered with Cooper Smith, the Malawi Government Ministry of Health, MACRA and mobile network operators to analyze and map mobile data.

Have you ever thought about the infrastructure — the core digital systems — that makes it possible for you to skip the travel, wait times, and headaches associated with conducting many simple government and business transactions in person?

As governments build out identity, payment, civil registration, and other foundational layers of digital public infrastructure, civil society organizations, privacy advocates, and others are understandably raising concerns over surveillance and privacy.

Digitization has enormous potential to catalyze development and improve the lives of hundreds of millions around the world through access to financial services, health care, and education. 

Two intersecting trends in the world of data will have far-reaching implications for data governance and provide new opportunities and challenges for developing countries.