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In 2013, I co-founded Light of Hope, an education company that runs an after-school programme for children aged 4-12 in Bangladesh. We built creativity workshops, moral education curricula and learning experiences for children who struggled in a rote-learning school system. The programmes wor...

In most of the international development and social impact organisations I work with as a strategic AI advisor, the actual use cases of artificial intelligence are not normally based on formal policies or other top-down guidance. Rather, AI is more commonly used via ad hoc workarounds, a practice sometimes termed “shadow AI use.”

Staff are regularly using publicly avai...

Rising rates of financial fraud in emerging economies threaten to undermine the promise of digitization and the economic gains it unlocks. But for women entrepreneurs, digital tools are...

Multilateral development banks (MDBs) have spent the last decade building the foundations of digital economies across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), by financing broadband networks, data centers, digital ID systems and regulatory frameworks. This work can help to make large-scale AI deployment in these markets a viable investment opportunity.

But laying the ...

Despite years of emphasizing the need to reach underserved businesses, the impact investing sector is increasingly focusing on lower-risk opportunities. According to GIIN data, mature, publicly traded companies have drawn the