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Digital technology: 2024 Activity report
In 2024, digital technology was a driving force in major economic, social, environmental, and democratic transitions. It provides powerful responses to the climate crisis, rising inequality, the trans...
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These 12 Indian cities are the future of sustainable urban development
In 2018, the Government of India, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Union (EU) launched the City Investments To Innovate, Integrate and Sustain (CITIIS) program, which invited I...
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Senegal: Women Entrepreneurs in the Spotlight
In Senegal, 82% of the entrepreneurial base is made up of individual businesses. Fragile and informal, they often need room to grow in order to become viable. Financial support programs such as the Pa...
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New Delhi summit calls for AI in the public interest
One year after co-chairing the AI Action Summit in Paris with France, India hosted the first AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. The goal was to promote artificial intelligence that responds to local needs...
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E-Governance: French Expertise Mobilized in Vietnam
Moving government business into the digital realm has been a long-standing priority for Vietnam. Since 2015, the government has stepped up its modernization and digitization efforts in an attempt to i...
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12 African Cities making the Digital Transition
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is supporting 12 African cities in their effort to make the transition to digital platforms. The municipalities’ aim is to collectively develop and share skills...
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In Bangladesh, Smart Grids Provide Over a Million People With Access to Electricity
François Lhomme is an expert in intelligent electrical networks (“smart grids”) and a project team leader in the Energy Division of Agence Française de Développement (AFD). Here he describes the merit...
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“The FGEF Has Been Innovation for the Environment for 25 Years”: Stéphanie Bouziges-Eschmann
The French Global Environment Facility (FGEF) was launched after the first Earth Summit, in 1994. Since then, it has worked towards one singular goal: to create synergies between environmental preserv...
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Text Messages to Raise Awareness about Health and Hygiene
In our series on “Shared Innovation”, AFD highlights innovative programs invented or developed in our partner countries. Diffusing good health practices to the general public is a big challenge whe...
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7 Innovative Projects using Data to Combat Covid-19
AFD's “Shared Innovation” series highlights innovative programs created or developed in our partner countries. AFD, Expertise France and The GovLab have launched call for projects that will use dat...
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Tilt, a Digital Platform to help Young People take Action
How to help young French people get involved in action to tackle the major global environmental challenges? This is the question AFD wants to help answer with the Tilt digital ecosystem. It is made up...
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Digital Africa: Seed Funds for Start-ups
As part of its "shared innovation" series, AFD highlights innovative programs that have been created, developed or encouraged in its partner countries. Six partners with expertise in supporting inn...
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Innovating for the Climate and Biodiversity: 5th Edition of the AFD Digital Challenge
The AFD Digital Challenge starts today. For its fifth edition, the competition is devoted to startups and digital innovations that promote climate protection and biodiversity in Africa. Applicants hav...
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Unlikely Allies: Artificial Intelligence and Biodiversity
It’s a potentially groundbreaking combination: AI and biodiversity. And it’s being explored by the major players in their respective fields. Agence Française de Développement and the French National R...
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A New Web Portal Paves the Way to Niger 2.0
The days of spending hours heading to administrative buildings in the capital may be nearing an end. Niger’s government business is going online, in an effort to improve service and expand public acc...
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Reconciliation through Social Entrepreneurship in the Western Balkans
The RISE consortium aims to make social engagement of young people a central focus of reconciliation efforts in the Western Balkans. Predominantly funded by the Agence Française de Développement, RISE...
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Improving Access to Energy in Africa with Digital Innovation
Half of the households in Sub-Saharan Africa lack access to electricity. One answer may lie in energy innovations. The Digital Energy Facility promotes digital innovation by start-ups and operators in...
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The Fund for Innovation in Development Launches its First Call for Projects
It’s part of a new initiative to revamp France’s approach to development. Chaired by Nobel laureate Esther Duflo, the Fund for Innovation in Development is hosted by AFD. Its purpose is to stimulate,...
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AFD Digital Challenge: the Start-ups Designing Sustainable Cities
AFD's “Shared Innovation” series highlights innovative programs created or developed in our partner countries. For its fourth edition, the AFD Digital Challenge is rewarding ten innovative African...
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Digital Africa Fund: Customized support for African start-ups
The Digital Africa seed fund for innovative entrepreneurship in Africa is off to a promising start, just six months on from its launch. Already, one third of the €15 million for technical and financi...
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