Interviews
AIDF Asia Summit to focus on improving aid delivery and health resilience through mobile innovations
Following the success of last year’s event, the Aid & International Development Forum is pleased to announce the AIDF Asia Summit to take place at the United Nations Conference Centre in...
Big Data Improves Response to Humanitarian Crises
Big Data can improve the response to humanitarian crises by enabling earlier detection and distributing warnings to potentially affected groups. Data services like Mobile Money are also transforming response,...
Software to speed up repatriation of trafficked children in South Asia
According to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC), South Asia is the fastest-growing and second-largest region for human trafficking in the world, after East Asia. A new technologically...
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[Infographic] Mobile for Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Some of the striking facts lie in this section of the AIDF Inforgraphic as Sub-Saharan Africa delivers the fastest growth in mobile usage rates globally. The mobile penetration rate in the region was 39%...
Women Must Be Part of Africa’s Development: Africa Industrialization Day 2015
Following on from our article discussing Africa Industrialization Day, this article discusses the main concerns and discussions which took place. “In recent years, many countries in Africa have experienced...
Africa Industrialization Day 2015
"Africa needs to invest in training and education for women and youth to industrialize, grow the private sector and achieve sustainable development.” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Message for...
Mobile For Development Initiatives
Technology, especially mobile phones, can create positive change to help improve the livelihoods of those in developing countries. Below are some recent initiatives which have been helping to improve food...
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[report] AIDF Mobile for Development: Transforming Global Healthcare Through Mobile Technology
With the ascent of mobile technology and increased connectivity across the globe, the digital divide is slowly closing. As technological changes and solution-based innovations forge ahead in the next few...
TURMAKS Mobile Healthcare Solutions - Case Examples
TURMAKS offers types of products for various types of applications in terms of client needs, use, climatic and/or geographic conditions, with a custom-design manufacturing, according to requirements specifies...
Digital cash for refugees in Kenya’s Kakuma camps
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has introduced digital cash in the Kakuma refugee camps in Kenya which are home to 180 000 mostly South Sudanese refugees. The cash transfers –...
Enabling the Path to Recovery with Critical Connectivity in Nepal
Benegas Brothers Expeditions’ Alpine Guides Rely on Iridium-Enabled Broadband Service to Reestablish Trade Routes and Reconnect Communities in Remote Mountain Villages The moment the 7.8-magnitude...
Inmarsat’s BGAN Link for eHealth
SOS Children’s Villages and Safe Triage Ltd use BGAN Link to bring health monitoring to remote communities in Benin. Linking on-site medical teams to urban hospitals for real-time access to diagnostic...
