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What is polygon mapping? 🌎🗺️ Technoserve is using this innovative technology to support sustainable agriculture and land use planning in developing countries.
Take a look back at some of the technological advances leading the fight to end world hunger and poverty in 2022.
A new TechnoServe report shows how to include farmers lacking Internet access in training that improves their skills and incomes
When designed and applied in accordance with local needs, technology can dramatically improve income and opportunities for low-income people worldwide. See how tech solutions changed the lives of entrepreneurs and smallholder farmers in TechnoServe’s programs this past year.
Can an innovative approach to teaching school students also transform how we train entrepreneurs and smallholder farmers around the world?
TechnoServe integrates technology into many of our programs to reach more people and scale our impact around the world. Today we are sharing five things you might not know about how technology is fighting poverty in 2021.
Emerging technology solutions combining aerial and phone imagery with machine learning could solve long-standing challenges in getting accurate, timely data for trade and investment decisions in the global nut and dried fruit industry.
In Kenya, entrepreneurship offers a pathway out of poverty for many young people like Irene Minyao. However, without the right skills and support, running a small business for the first time can be a daunting task. TechnoServe recently piloted a new digital platform that will help entrepreneurs gain the business management skills they need to succeed in an increasingly competitive environment.
Human-centered design is revolutionizing software development in the tech sector. Can the process of design thinking help create better solutions for international development, too? Learn how design principles for technology can reduce poverty in the latest edition of Tech vs. Poverty, a new column by Director of TechnoServe Labs Dave Hale.
Technology has the potential to address many of the world’s most pressing development challenges. But some of the biggest failures incorporating technology in development contexts result from solutions that don’t fit the target users’ needs and capabilities. In his first regular column on applying technology to solve development problems, Director of TechnoServe Labs Dave Hale discusses the first step for developing technology solutions: understanding the end user.
