#HappeningThisWeek | 📣 Join IDinsighters Akashmegh Sharma, Tom Wein, and Vinod Kumar Sharma at the Center for Global Development's upcoming Second Annual Research Conference on Global Lead Exposure. ⤵️ Our team is leading the session "From Field to Lab: A Scalable, Low-Resource 'Playbook' for Lead Surveillance" alongside Jenna Forsyth, Director of Project Unleaded at Stanford University. We are excited to be part of this convening alongside researchers, policymakers, and implementers committed to stamping out global lead poisoning. If you're in the room and would like to learn more about IDinsight's work on lead elimination, come speak with our teammates Akashmegh Sharma, Tom Wein, and Vinod Kumar Sharma. 🗓️ Jun 3 - 4 2026 📍 London
IDinsight
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IDinsight helps leaders combat poverty worldwide by designing, deploying and promoting evidence-generating tools. We tailor the best methodologies to partner needs and constraints to fuse evidence with action. We serve governments, NGOs, foundations and social businesses across Africa and Asia in all major program areas including health, education, agriculture, livelihoods, finance, energy and governance. Our approach rests on four pillars: 1. Rigorous: We develop and use a wide-range of cutting edge data and evidence tools, including experimental evaluations, monitoring systems, data analytics and visualization, process evaluations, machine learning and more. 2. Cost-effective: Every dollar spent is justified by expected impact. If funds could be better used in another way, we say so. 3. Timely: Actionable information is delivered in time for client decision-making deadlines. 4. Demand-driven: We deploy solutions tailored to partner contexts and needs with no competing agendas. Our diverse, growing team of over 200 outstanding colleagues operate in nearly two dozen countries around the world. Learn more at www.IDinsight.org.
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📣 Come hear our Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Charlene Migwe, at the #GlobalDataFestival2026, moderated by Women in Space Kenya! Details ⤵️
And just like that, our lineup is complete 🎉 We are thrilled to announce our final panelist: Charlene Migwe, Deputy Regional Director for East & Southern Africa at IDinsight. Charlene drives regional strategy and high-impact, evidence-based initiatives that strengthen how governments and partners use data to make decisions. Before IDinsight, she led the Mastercard Foundation Research Partnership at Caribou Digital - shaping research and advisory on AI, digital skills, platform livelihoods and financial inclusion across Africa. As Regional Lead at Development Gateway, she built government partnerships to design national and subnational data systems that put evidence at the center of public decision-making. And if that wasn't enough, Charlene founded WORD - Women | Research | Data (Women's Observatory for Research & Data) to expand the availability and use of gender-disaggregated research in policymaking. Because she doesn't just work in the system, she builds new ones for women💪🏾 This is what our session looks like. Five extraordinary women. One powerful room. One conversation that matter and will always matter 🙌🏾 You do not want to miss this. Block your calendar, tell your colleagues and show up 🔥 | Kenya Space Agency | Kenya National Bureau of Statistics | Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data | Mastercard Foundation | Planet | Microsoft #GDF2026 #KSEC2026 #WomenInData #EvidenceBasedPolicy #GenderData #DataAfrica #WomenInTech #CharleneMigwe #IDinsight #WORD
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📣 This month, our Manila office hosted the Exec Team and Regional Directors for a week-long gathering of partner engagements, working sessions, cross-regional learning, and our SEA team's favourite: karaoke evenings. 👩💻📊🎶 📚 The week included a roundtable on 'AI in Philippine Basic Education' with DepEd Philippines and the Education Centre for AI Research (ECAIR), led by IDinsight's Chief Technical and Learning Officer Marc Shotland. https://lnkd.in/egWyTKr2 🎤 It also featured an AI IDeas Hour led by IDinsight's Chief Data Scientist Sid Ravinutala, bringing together sectoral experts, policymakers, and researchers to explore AI4Good applications in the social sector. https://lnkd.in/ebrf_kPz 🇵🇭 🇮🇩 🇻🇳There's nothing quite like the energy of our Southeast Asia team gathered under one roof, with teammates joining from Indonesia and Vietnam. Moments like these are why being together matters: for the work, and for the friendships and lessons that travel back across our offices. 💙 Huge thanks to our SEA team for hosting with so much heart. 📌 Want to be part of our team? Check out our current openings: https://lnkd.in/gV4nYA6E
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📣 Tune in to hear our Chief Data Scientist, @Sid Ravinutala, share how IDinsight and Last Mile Health partnered with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health to deploy #HEPAssist - a generative AI-powered call centre built to support 40,000 frontline workers. 🎧⤵️
What happens when a rural health extension worker encounters a complex case with no doctor nearby? On the latest episode of High-Impact Growth, Abraham Zerihun (Last Mile Health) and Sid Ravinutala (IDinsight) share how they partnered with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health to deploy HEP Assist—a generative AI-powered call center built to support 40,000 frontline workers. They move past the typical tech hype to look at the hard realities of AI deployment, including shifting variable cost models, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architecture constraints, and local language performance. With over 6,500 live consultations already completed, this isn’t a pilot on paper—it’s proof of what is possible at the last mile when government ownership drives innovation. 🎧 Listen to the full episode of High-Impact Growth to hear Abraham and Sid break down how to design safe, human-centered AI for global health development. → https://hubs.ly/Q04j3LGm0 #HighImpactGrowth #GlobalHealth #DigitalDevelopment #AIforGood
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We recently wrapped our annual exec meeting, this time in the Philippines. These events always exceed expectations for me -- there is just so much that cannot be accomplished on Zoom! Namely trust-building, strategy-setting, and hands-on-keyboard time with AI transformation. 𝐎𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 🧭 After a year of executing against our new direction, we feel increasingly confident that the intersection of 1) scale, 2) cost-effectiveness, and 3) burgeoning new tech is exactly where IDinsight should be. Our scale pillar in particular is sharpening around its intersection with the other two pillars: 🏛️ Supporting NGOs with proven, cost-effective interventions to take them to government scale — where cost is the barrier, not intervention quality 🤖 Deploying AI products through government systems: tools like Frontline Assist (a co-pilot for frontline health workers), BenefitsAI (connecting citizens to entitlements they can't access), and AI teacher assistants for local language content Both point to the same north star: rigorous evidence and smart technology making delivery at scale work better for vulnerable people everywhere. 𝐎𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 💻 We held a hands-on-keyboard session where the entire exec team sat down and built things in Claude. We did breakout groups to identify repeatable tasks that could be AI-hacked. One personal unlock was a daily briefing Claude skill that pulls together my calendar, outstanding threads, and Slack to-dos every morning - something my CEO support team used to prepare manually. Saves so much time! We have grand plans to scale up similar hands-on AI training to the whole org systematically. Write us if you want to share tips! 𝐎𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 🤍 We reprised something called "Voices," which I borrowed from my time at Yale School of Management - a storytelling session where execs share something real and authentic, unrelated to work. The threads that ran across very different lives surprised me: Growing up as an insider-outsider. Moving often and searching for home. Anxious perfectionism (occupational hazard at an org that selects for high achievers 😅). And grief, including the work of figuring out who you become when someone essential in your life is gone. I left feeling much closer to our entire team, especially those who recently joined -- and am so proud to be leading this org alongside remarkably wise, resilient, passionate, and thoughtful people. *** As we leave Manila, I think we all feel pride that we are carrying forward a strong new strategy in the midst of countless waves of disruption to our sector. We're proud to have graduated out of survival mode and are building ambitiously to help the sector realize the true potential of all the opportunities before us. And critically, we're doing that with a team of all-stars. Excited for what comes next! 🌻 #GlobalDevelopment #AITransformation #Leadership #SocialImpact #IDinsight #ScalingImpact #CostEffectiveness
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📍 Earlier this month in Manila, IDinsight hosted an AI IDeasHour bringing together sectoral experts, policymakers, and researchers to explore #AI4Good applications in the social sector. 🎤 Led by our Chief Data Scientist, Sid Ravinutala, the session explored how generative and agentic AI is reshaping service delivery by governments and NGOs. 📌 We spotlighted impactful AI use cases from across our regions, such as: 🇮🇳 predictive models to find out-of-school girls in India 🇳🇬 optimal teacher allocation across schools in Nigeria 🇿🇦 LLM-powered hotlines answering questions from mothers in South Africa 🛠️ The session dived deeper into everything beneath an AI model: product fundamentals, internal talent, data infrastructure that captures high-quality operational data, and model-user gap, where even technically sound tools can fall short when frontline teams lack the motivation or agency to act on the model's recommendations. 💙 Shoutout to our partners and peers for being part of the conversation and engaging in such a lively discussion. 🔗 To learn more about how you can prepare your organization for impactful AI adoption, read our insights: https://lnkd.in/ejHBdm22 🔔 More #IDeasHours to come, stay tuned.
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📣 Join Charlene Migwe and Poornima Ramesh at the Population Intelligence Hackathon, where IDinsight joins United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), World Health Organization, Google, Esri, and WorldPop to shape the next generation of connected population intelligence.⤵️
No single dataset tells the full story. That is why, on 3 June 2026 at the Global Data Festival in Nairobi, we are convening the Population Intelligence Hackathon: From Signals to Population Intelligence. Together with WHO, Google, ESRI, WorldPop and IDinsight, we will bring data scientists, demographers, public health specialists, AI experts, geospatial experts, policymakers, humanitarian actors, climate change experts and technology partners into one room. The ambition is clear: to shape the next generation of connected population intelligence. We will explore how open-source signals, AI, geospatial data, population layers and country validation can work together to help countries: see earlier, plan smarter and act faster. Because better decisions begin with better connected intelligence. Join us. 📅 03 June 2026 🕚 11:00–12:30 EAT 📍 Edge Hotel and Convention Centre, Nairobi 🔗 www.gdfksec2026.org #UNFPA #WHO #DataFest2026 #PopulationIntelligence #AIforGood #GeospatialIntelligence #DataForDevelopment #ClimateAction #HumanitarianData #EIOS
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#RegistrationsOpen | Next month in Bogotá, our Chief Data Scientist, Sid Ravinutala, takes the stage at the Accelerate: Data and AI for Social Impact Conference, hosted by DataDotOrg and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Sid will be sharing his insights on the panel "Shockproof: Building Resilience at the Intersection of Health and Financial Inclusion" alongside: 🎤 Elizabeth Langdon-Gray, Executive Director, Harvard Data Science Initiative (Moderator), Harvard University 🎤 Ivana Feldfeber, Co-founder and Executive Directress, DataGénero - Observatorio 🎤 Olasimbo Sojinrin, Chief Executive Officer, Solar Sister The session will examine what it means to build resilience and what it takes to design systems, tools, and interventions that hold up under pressure. Join the session to explore how data and AI can be harnessed responsibly to strengthen communities across the globe. 📍 Bogotá, Colombia 🗓 Thursday, 11 June 2026 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/gSeT78Eg
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📣 Last week, IDinsight joined DepEd Philippines and the Education Center for AI Research (ECAIR) for a roundtable discussion on "Navigating AI in Philippine Basic Education." 🇵🇭📚📖 Drawing on global evidence from comparable education systems, IDinsight's Chief Technical and Learning Officer, Marc Shotland, presented a curated set of AI applications to showcase what has worked, what has not, and what lessons are most relevant to the Philippine context. Led by Education Secretary Sonny Angara, the session brought together senior DepEd officials to discuss how these lessons could inform DepEd's emerging work on AI in education. 🔔 Stay tuned for more updates from our partnership. 📸 Photo credits: DepEd Philippines
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Just got back from a wonderful trip to the Philippines. One highlight was an engaging session with DepEd Philippines, attended by Secretary Sonny Angara and many of the wonderful Assistant Secretaries in the department. IDinsight has worked closely with DepEd over the years on many critical topics, including school feeding, teacher workloads, emergency disruptions, remote learning, inclusive education, and grade repetition. Each project was driven by real policy questions, and thus shaped evidence-informed decisions that benefit Filipino children and teachers at scale. This visit, we came to share what we have been learning globally on cutting-edge AI deployments in education. IDinsight Chief Technical & Learning Officer Marc Shotland led a 90-minute session sharing what we know so far on the edtech and AI applications that have actually worked (spoiler: we don't know much yet, due to very limited evidence!), what the most numerous and promising use cases are, and where more data and evidence generation is needed. Our SEA team and I framed the twin imperatives we keep coming back to: 🚀 Accelerate AI's potential - as a customizable teaching aid, a teacher support tool, and a force multiplier for an overstretched workforce; 🔬 But study innovations carefully: we need to measure both impact and unintended consequences, and rigorously evaluate before scaling. DepEd's leadership showed up curious, informed, and ready to engage on both fronts. The Philippines faces some of the most acute education challenges in the world -- and some of the most committed people working to fix them. Grateful to the Education Center for AI Research (ECAIR) for co-convening, and to the DepEd team and Secretary Angara for making time. #Philippines #DepEd #AIinEducation #GlobalDevelopment #Evaluation
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