Artificial intelligence and human development
AI’s potential for enhancing development efforts is enormous, but we need to ensure its ethical and equitable use.
AI’s potential for enhancing development efforts is enormous, but we need to ensure its ethical and equitable use.
Pakistan's devastating 2010 Indus basin floods left approximately one-fifth of Pakistan's land area underwater and directly affected about 20 million people.
The rocketing growth in the number of people online and improvements in computer capacity are making it possible for governments and the private sector to collect and share information on every facet of people's lives.
The Middle Hills in the Nepal Himalayas are home to a large part of the country's population. This area has been identified as particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
The Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was established in 1997 with the dual purpose of helping developing countries achieve sustainable development (as defined nationally) and industrialized countries achieve compliance with (bind
Shifting cultivation has generally been subject to policies that are geared toward eradicating the system altogether, whether by banning the practice or inducing farmers to take up alternative employment.
Cambodia has a long history of migration, dislocation and forced resettlement.
The grasslands and steppes of Mongolia are currently home to some 35 million head of livestock and 180 000 herding families.
Securing the livelihoods of forest-dependent peoples necessitates good governance and sustainable management of common-pool resources.
This project will support digital innovations that solve development challenges. It will establish a seed funding program, develop approaches for scaling up innovations, and nurture entrepreneurial leaders.