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Be Agile(r)
Last week, ICTworks published a July 2016 blog post from Brian Sokol of Abt Associates that advocates for a leaner, more agile approach to the Principles for Digital Development. Finding the…
Cross-Post: Digital Development into Practice: Co-Designing a Citizen Feedback Tool that Makes Sense
In April the World Bank endorsed [1] the Principles for Digital Development [2], signaling its intent to support the use of technologies in projects through human-centered, contextually appropriate,…
Cross-Post: 5 (and 1/2) Things We Learned from Teaching the Digital Principles (DAI Global)
Over the last couple of years, DAI has developed the “ICT Corps—a series of in-house training sessions for our teams around the world on how to integrate ICT into development projects, from…
Fending Off ‘Pilotitis’ in Global Tech
In 2008, Uganda started coming down with a condition well known to the international development community. It wasn’t a virus or disease; it was a case of “pilotitis." As many as 80 NGOs were…
Moving Past Pilots: Entering the Next Phase of Digital Development
Today, we mark the end of the 8th annual ICT4D conference which gathered over 700 implementers, donors, country representatives, the private sector and implementers for four days. While the…
NetHope and DIAL Announce Partnership to Support Digital Development
Nairobi, Kenya, May 17, 2016 NetHope and the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) announced a partnership to guide the use of the Principles for Digital Development at the ICT4D Conference in…
Cross-Post: Why the World Bank endorses the Principles for Digital Development
In March of this year, DIAL assumed the stewardship of the Principles for Digital Development and will continue to build off the community insights, recommendations, convenings and knowledge that…
Reaching the SDGs: New Alliances in Digital Development
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call on all of us to work as partners to end extreme poverty, fight inequality, and address climate change. Digital technologies enable government and…
DIAL welcomes its incoming CEO
The Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) team is pleased announce the appointment of Kate Wilson as its CEO, effective 8 February, 2016. Kate brings over 25 years of experience advising companies and…
Introducing the Digital Impact Alliance
We’d like to invite you on a journey. Today, the Digital Impact Alliance, or DIAL, comes to life. Formerly known as the Mobile Hub, DIAL is a global alliance to harness the power of the digital…