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Some events DIAL attended:   Broadband Commission Beyond 2030  Annual meeting of the EQUALS Global Partnership  Executive Lunch Briefing on Digital Transformation for UHC 2030 Coalition  Contracts for Data Collaboration Workshop  Concordia Annual Summit  The Case for Good ID Reception  SDGActionZone Lightning Talk and Exhibition  Data for Health Equity: Unlocking Health for All Last month, the

“By 2019, an estimated 3.9 billion people will be using messaging apps (Activate & WSJ Tech). NGOs and the development community have already begun to embrace the opportunity afforded by these platforms to reach more people and track progress and success of their programs.” Led by Maurice Sayinzoga (Digital Impact Alliance), Boris Maguire (Echo Mobile),

Another year, another MERL Tech in the books. Once again, the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) co-sponsored  the MERL Tech conference, a space for discussion, learning and sharing experiences and challenges with the use of technologies for Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) in the social impact, humanitarian and international development fields.   Two full days and a day of pre-session workshops allowed

After a decade at Microsoft, I started my career in global development focusing on public health. I had come from one of the largest technology platform companies in the world, so naturally, my first focus for the Digital Health solutions team I led at PATH was expanding the potential for using technology platforms at the

Civil registration is critical for human rights and effective governance. Globally, almost half of the world’s children, most of them in Africa, do not have their birth registered and are consequently invisible in the eyes of the law. Being invisible, they are vulnerable to many forms of abuse and neglect. They may also be unable

Because these aid organizations are often small, and their resources are limited, we wanted to see how we could align needs across them and pool spend (or demand) for these technology services in order to increase negotiating power with MNOs.