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Digitalising Social Protection: Three lessons learnt

Digitalising Social Protection: Three lessons learnt

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Editors' Spotlight

The Capacity4dev editorial team worked with INTPA.G4 and provides lessons learnt from the INTPA.D4-funded paper “Digital Social Protection: e-solutions for basic service delivery”.

Worldwide
Africa
Togo
+3
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Americas & the Caribbean
Colombia
Digitalisation
Big Data
Internet access
+3
Mobile technology
Social Protection and Inclusion
Social Protection policies

Les femmes et la science dans la région du voisinage Sud de l'UE : leçons tirées de l'initiative THE NEXT SOCIETY

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Voices & Views

Les femmes du voisinage Sud ont un rôle important à jouer pour changer les choses dans leur communauté, par le biais des sciences, de la technologie, de l'ingénierie et des mathématiques. L'UE soutient les jeunes entrepreneurs et...

Africa
Algeria
Egypt
+6
Morocco
Tunisia
Asia
Jordan
Lebanon
Palestine
Gender
Digitalisation
Private Sector

Women and science in the EU Southern Neighbourhood region: lessons learnt from THE NEXT SOCIETY initiative

Article
Voices & Views

Southern Neighbourhood women have an important role to affect change in their communities through science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The EU supports young entrepreneurs and researchers to boost the region’s...

Africa
Algeria
Egypt
+6
Morocco
Tunisia
Asia
Jordan
Lebanon
Palestine
Gender
Digitalisation
Private Sector
Interpreter

The role of homegrown interpretation in development

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Voices & Views

Africa's linguistic diversity is stunning, but with over 1,500 languages spoken across the continent, communication can be a challenge – even within countries themselves.

Africa
Capacity Development
Capacity development
Digitalisation
+1
Communication policy

Miss Geek Africa: Women and girls in digitalisation

Article
Voices & Views

ICT can go a long way in promoting gender equality and women empowerment. Winner of an Africa-wide programming contest tells us how she’s tapping into her digital skills to get ahead in the field.

Africa
Children and Youth
Youth engagement and participation
Gender
+1
Digitalisation

Development Goes Digital

Article
Voices & Views

Innovations in areas such as mobile payments and remote healthcare in developing countries are helping to turn the old development paradigm on its head. “It’s not any more the South which has the problems and the North which has...

Africa
Kenya
Digitalisation

Open Data in Humanitarian Aid

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Voices & Views

Q&A with Rupert Simons, Chief Executive Officer of Publish What You Fund. Publish What You Fund is a non-profit organisation that campaigns for aid transparency. “We believe that information is power and we campaign to make that...

Africa
Sierra Leone
Asia
+1
Nepal
Digitalisation

Agriculture’s Data Revolution

Article
Voices & Views

“If we can replace the hand hoe with a smartphone as the most common tool in the hands of an African farmer, then we are halfway towards our dream,” said Theo de Jager, President of the Pan African Farmers Organisation and the...

Africa
Americas & the Caribbean
Colombia
Agriculture & Rural Development
Fisheries
Digitalisation

Big Data: Big Potential

Article
Voices & Views

Imagine being able to gain information instantly about whether a development project is reaching its intended recipients, or where the next cholera outbreak might be, or track the fluctuating wealth of every district in Cote d...

Africa
Capacity Development
Digitalisation
Knowledge Management
+1
Learning

Spurring Development and Combating Disease with Mobile Phone Data

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Voices & Views

International telecommunications company Orange, recently tested the potential for Big Data to contribute to development when it released anonymous data from five million-plus cell phone users in Cote d’Ivoire and invited...

Africa
Europe
United Kingdom
Health
Infectious disease control
Digitalisation
+1
Big Data