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United Nations Activities on Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Geneva: ITU (2025), xvi, 500 pp.
"If 2023 was the year of generative artificial intelligence, 2024 was marked by the rapid expansion and adoption of AI, driving waves of innovation across nearly every conceivable domain. The United Nations system has kept an encouraging pace, redoubling efforts to harness the power and potential of
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Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful
Cambridge: Polity Press (2025), vii, 248 pp.
"With over 300 million people in need of humanitarian assistance and with emergencies and climate disasters becoming ever more common, AI and big data are being championed as a force for good and as a solution to the complex challenges of the aid sector. This book argues, on the contrary, that digit
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AI for Good Innovate for Impact. Interim Report 2025
Geneva: ITU (2025), xxxiv, 828 pp.
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the way we address complex societal challenges, offering new possibilities in areas such as healthcare, climate resilience, education, and digital inclusion. The Innovate for Impact project was launched in 2024 to identify, support, and showcase practical A
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ICT and Rural Development in the Global South
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xiii, 211 pp.
"Drawing on years of experience across 45 countries, as well as extensive original academic research, Willem van Eekelen situates the evolving role of ICT in wider development patterns in the Global South. He discusses the effects of ICT on agriculture, trade, financial flows, resource management an
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E-empowerment tips for facilitators: Information and communication technologies for farmer field schools
Rome: FAO (2024), viii, 56 pp.
5 Lessons Learned Running a Chatbot Service for Social Good
Deep Insights
ICTworks (2024)
"ONE is a campaigning and advocacy organization focused on fighting extreme poverty and preventable diseases, particularly in Africa. ONE had been using mobile technologies to reach new audiences since 2012, leveraging SMS, USSD, IVR and mobile-optimized websites to provide a simple and easy for cit
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AI for Good: Impact Report
Geneva: ITU (2024), viii, 80 pp.
USAID Digital Policy 2024-2034
USAID (2024), 46 pp.
"For nearly 50 years, USAID has been a leader in supporting digital transformation around the world. This Policy now sets the course for USAID to continue advancing development and humanitarian outcomes in an ever-accelerating digital age. The Agency will strive to improve our ability to meet the ne
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AI in Global Development Playbook
USAID (2024), 46 pp.
"When used effectively and responsibly, artificial intelligence (AI) holds the potential to accelerate progress on sustainable development and close digital divides, but it also poses risks that could further impede progress toward these goals. With the right enabling environment and ecosystem of ac
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Artificial Intelligence and International Cultural Relations: Challenges and Opportunities for Cross-Sector Collaboration
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2024), 120 pp.
"The integration of AI systems has profoundly transformed multiple dimensions of international cultural relations (ICR). Notably, changes in recent years have accentuated imbalances among languages, affected the situation of cultural sectors, and impacted the integrity of information while also prov
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The promises and pitfalls of cryptocurrencies and blockchain for marginalized communities
Information, Communication & Society, volume 28, issue 11 (2024), pp. 1979-1996
"Cryptocurrencies, and the blockchain technology that underlies them, have attracted much attention over the last decade from scholars, tech communities, financial institutions, states and more. The extreme volatility of the cryptocurrency market has made some people very rich and cost others almost
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"The main conclusions drawn from the analysis of online opinions during natural disasters in Africa are highlighted below:
● Climate change is one of the main concerns of the African population in recent years. This climate problem is considered to be causing more and greater natural disasters on
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Assessing the digital readiness and communication ecosystem of rural youth: Methodological guidelines
Rome: FAO (2024), vi, 92 pp.
Connected farmers: A casebook of good practices and inspiring stories from Europe and Central Asia
Budapest: FAO (2024), vi, 127 pp.
"Numerous barriers hinder mobile information services in delivering information effectively to smallholder farmers. Many of these barriers can be explained by farmers’ habits in using their phones. Therefore, carefully considering how exactly farmers use their phones in specific local context is c
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Rural communication services: Trends and experiences in Asia and the Pacific
Rome: FAO (2024), vii, 79 pp.
A return of dominant paradigm in China: Making Alibaba a development solution for rural China and the globe
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 21 pp.
"In 2011, Alibaba launched the Taobao Villages initiative, which enables rural e-commerce and connects rural sellers with urban buyers, highlighting the role of e-commerce platforms in reducing rural poverty. This approach was later integrated into national rural development policies. As the Digital
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