February 2021 - Insight

Bring your own water; bring your own blood. The perils of giving birth in Sierra Leone

February 24, 2021 memuna 0

Bring your own water! Bring your own blood! Filth encrusted speculum supplied. Sierra Leone’s doctors return to their country to make a difference. These are the conditions under which they are forced to work, and […]

Annihilation by deforestation: How the pursuit of short-term “gain” will be the death of a country – by Sonkita Conteh, Director, Namati Sierra Leone

February 10, 2021 memuna 1

2019 was a terrible year for Sierra Leone’s forests. According to the 2020 annual pubic finance audit report, more than 10 million slow-growing, rosewood trees were shipped out of the country. Approximately two hundred thousand […]

Artificial Intelligence and Start-Ups in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Progress, Promises and Perils | Mobile for Development

February 9, 2021 memuna Comments Off

Around the world, artificial intelligence (AI) is automating functions and making new services possible with breakthroughs in low-cost computing power, cloud computing services, growth in big data and advancements in machine learning (ML) and related […]