The power of the human imagination to predict the future is awe-inspiring. In the novels of Jules Verne and Philip K. Dick, and films that predicted the future of news media, such as Sidney Lumet’s […]

Su Kahumbu is a mobile phone application wizard who creates apps for smallholder farmers in Africa. The wizardry comes in the simplicity of her tools. The latest of which is iCow. iCow is aimed at […]

Combining the latest digital technology with the tradition of science-fiction and the imagination of the crowd, Witness is a project from Edgeryders that aims to bring people together to solve complex problems in unorthodox ways, […]

An exciting new session has just been added to the Main Event of #IID21 – a conversation with Alaa Salah and Alicia Garza. ’From social movements to shifting power dynamics – lessons from the trenches […]

Residents of Freetown, Sierra Leone are about to get their water supply in part from an innovative new project spearheaded by the first female mayor of the capital, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE. The collaborative project brings […]

In a wide-ranging interview on the World Economic Forum blog, Martin Burt, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Fundación Paraguaya, creator of Poverty Spotlight, and IID panelist, explains how his organization is persuading Paraguayan companies […]

Since when did a blockchain chicken farm have anything to do with International Development? Since now. Xiaowei Wang, speaking at IID21, explores the connections between community empowerment, technology and ecology through public art, technology projects […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered, among other things, a radical rethink of the development – both as a paradigm and as a sector itself.  The last few months has seen those proclaiming the end of […]