- Practice AreaFHI 360's experts use the multiplying effect of innovative and basic technology to further the impact of everything we do.
- External ArticleFHI 360 and Qualcomm Wireless Reach team up with Tata Consultancy Services on the Wireless Solutions for Fisheries in Senegal (WISE) project, using a solution that combines wireless connectivity and GPS with specialized mobile and server applications through a smartphone. Berhane Gebru, Director of Programs for TechLab at FHI 360 discusses the unique approach of the project that addresses entrepreneurship and livelihoods, gender, health education and technology.
- PublicationThis inventory includes nearly 100 examples of digital technologies that are being used in Asia-Pacific to enhance the resilience of individuals, families, communities, businesses or governments.
- ToolsThis manual presents the current state of mobile financial services for garment workers in Bangladesh and the challenges of adopting digitized payments.
- External ArticleFHI 360, the U.S. Agency for International Development and Phandeeyar, an innovation lab in Yangon, hosted the Innovation Marketplace in March. A civic tech competition, the Innovation Marketplace facilitated opportunities to collaborate between civil society organizations and technology companies.
- NewsThis grant allows FHI 360 to support expansion of the Global Resilience Partnership, which invests in digital resilience technologies to help vulnerable people adapt to shocks and chronic stresses.
- FeatureFHI 360’s Feed the Future Malawi Mobile Money project focuses on helping select populations that are unbanked or under-banked, such as farmers, day laborers and social welfare recipients.
- VideoCaroline Averch, Technical Advisor for Financial Services at FHI 360, discusses some of the root causes of financial exclusion and explains financial inclusion and how to expand it.
- FeatureIs exposing young children to screen time harmful? FHI 360’s Jacqueline Hess, Director of Disability Studies and Services & Early Care and Education, says that technologies can aid in brain development during early years.
- FeatureClimate change poses great risks to the well-being of communities around the globe. Farmers in poor communities are often hit the hardest when drought occurs.