Around the world, governments are racing to digitize services and tackle climate change. Yet too often, these efforts happen in silos—or even pull in opposite directions. While digital tools can eliminate paper-based processes, reduce travel, and streamline services, they also depend on energy-intensive data centers, growing processing needs, and generate growing volumes of e-waste if not […]
Peter Drucker, often called the father of modern management, once wrote that “innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.” In development, innovation does something similar: It endows resources with a new capacity to create outcomes. In turn, outcomes are what give innovation purpose. At […]
Over the past year, I’ve seen a growing interest in, and a stronger demand for, better tools to prepare for and respond to crises. Our partners in government, the private sector, civil society, foundations, and other development organizations send us the same message time and time again: In the face of crisis, we need greater […]
