For years, development sector teams have faced a familiar tradeoff: global firms often bring global connections but limited in-country context, while local partners offer deep relationships and expertise but may lack access to global tools and systems. Bridging that gap has rarely been easy. This challenge came into focus in a crowded stairwell at the … Read more
How DevGlobal Leverages EO to Advance Agricultural Innovation Earth Observation (EO) technologies have revolutionized our ability to monitor and evaluate agricultural interventions across diverse landscapes – ranging from continent-scale deforestation tracking to detecting single-gene crop improvements. This spectrum of applications reveals how EO bridges the gap between satellite data and on-the-ground impact, empowering governments, NGOs, … Read more
How GIS expertise and local voices maximize program impact for The Carter Center and Ethiopia’s Guinea Worm Eradication Program
Get the Most Data for your Dollar – How the Pros Negotiate a Humanitarian License Fight for health and climate equity by mastering the fine print Just a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the government of the West African country of Sierra Leone was able to use geospatial data to identify at-risk … Read more
Agricultural practices and food systems play a major role in many pressing challenges, including climate change, nutritional security, and ensuring sustainable livelihoods for Africa’s rapidly growing population. Many long-standing agricultural practices compete with natural environments, deteriorate soils and habitats, reduce biodiversity, and affect water supply and quality–much of which has led to degradation of Africa’s … Read more
We failed to recognize community and country needs in rolling out COVID Vaccines. We can learn from these mistakes. There are two popular meta-narratives on the failures of Global COVID-19 vaccine rollout: “multi-national capitalist pharma companies didn’t make tech transfer available, and that leaves the most vulnerable behind” and “countries were not ready to deliver … Read more
