How NGOs and service delivery organisations can be empowered by better use of data to improve public service delivery.

What exactly is privacy? As Bob Gellman points out in his new CGD paper, the concept changes from place to place. Scandinavian countries have strict privacy laws, but tax returns are public; the United States has no broad privacy laws, but tax returns are shield from public scrutiny. In some Europea...

This is a joint post with Kate McQueston. Mobile applications – or ‘apps’ – seem to be the latest craze in mobile technology for global health programming.  The proliferation of these apps is converging around a growing interests in open (and big) data, so you don&rsquo...

The “identity gap” is large, but it’s closing. Over the past 10 years, developing countries from Afghanistan to Zambia—and the donors that support them—have begun to focus on identity systems. Some have sought to create or extend national identification to cover large populations that previously cou...