ICTworks™ is the premier community for international development professionals committed to utilizing new and emerging technologies to magnify the intent of communities to accelerate their social and economic development.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

People with access to lasercutters and 3D printers are designing and fabricating face masks for front-line healthcare workers

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Digital Innovation for Social Impact

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

A community dedicated to researching locally-sourced, easy-to-manufacture designs for PEEP valves, BVMs, automated BVM pumps, and full ventilators.

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Hardware
• COVID
• High-tech COVID Interventions

Empowering rural communities with digital education

• rural

• Hardware
• Digital literacy

We’re building the world’s largest and fastest learning network around development challenges.

• Decent work and economic growth
• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Our software measures economic and infrastructure conditions across Africa, informing how capital can be deployed to drive forward economic progress.

• development

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Access the internet simply and reliably where you are. BRCK is a rugged, self powered, cloud enabled wifi hotspot router with built in fail-overs.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India

• agriculture
• research
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Bots

Soofa makes smart, social, and sustainable technologies for cities and communities. We’re revolutionizing the way we communicate in cities.

• public space

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

We are working on medical devices, to have a fast and easy solution that can be reproduced and assembled locally worldwide.

• Hardware
• High-tech COVID Interventions

This is an exploratory overview of current and upcoming sources of data, processing pipelines, and data products. It is aimed at helping non-experts explore and harness the unfolding revolution of Earth observation, with an emphasis on understanding current capabilities and project development considerations.

• agriculture
• forests

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware