A framework to help uncover trends — Around the world, people and small businesses are working and selling in new ways, using digital platforms. …

Introducing the QYDEL (Quality Youth Digitally Enabled Livelihoods) Project — Jonathan Donner, Caribou Digital and Shikoh Gitau, Qhala With the support of the Mastercard Foundation, Caribou Digital and Qhala are partnering to synthesize and gather new evidence about how Kenyan youth are adapting to “digitally-enabled” livelihoods — new ways of working and selling via platforms, gig work, social commerce, and…

This is a critical moment to shape the world’s digital future. The “response to the response to COVID-19” is already underway. We’re tracking it at this website. The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis, a once in a century event. Grief and sacrifice are everywhere, and the world’s immediate responses…

As automation and digitization transform economies and usher in a new ‘future of work’, closing the skills gap is critical. …

On 24 October 2019 — #UNDAY — I had the privilege to participate as a panelist at the United Nations General Assembly Second Committee Side-event: “Emerging models of economic activities: Implications for sustainable development”. Thanks to the hosts — UN/DESA and UNCTAD, for including me, and thanks to the other…

At last, I think I have found a decent excuse to share pictures of my dog on my otherwise serious blog. Well, one picture anyway. Read on, and you’ll see why. Lately. I’ve been thinking about digital identity, particularly about the different ways that people understand and approach the concept…

Caribou Digital’s style guide for talking about identity in a digital age Thanks to my Caribou Digital colleagues, Savita Bailur, Nicki McGoh, Bryan Pon, and Emrys Shoemaker, for their inputs to this essay How does a person prove who she is? How does she describe who she is? How does…

In the coming months the FiDA team will be conducting new research at the intersection of two broad themes: financial inclusion in the platform era and enterprises and financial inclusion. Apart from agriculture, Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), are the greatest source of employment in many countries in sub-Saharan…

Keynote remarks at the USAID Digital Development Forum, 9 March 2018. With entrepreneurial drive, the right technological solutions and a supportive, enabling environment, what could digital development look like in 2028 for base-of-the-pyramid populations? If there is a guidebook for speakers in the technology community somewhere, it offers a warning…