Earlier this summer I turned sixty. I wrote about it here at the time, about how it didn’t feel like a milestone so much as a nudge, a tap on the shoulder from someone leaning over to say you know you don’t have forever, don’t you? I talked about sitting down and asking AI to … Continue reading Beautifully Borrowed: A book about living
Month: September 2026
Welcoming back the Mobile Database
Between 2003 and 2010, kiwanja.net tracked hundreds of early experiments in mobile technology for international development – many before ICT4D was a familiar term – and years before most NGOs had given mobile phones a second thought. Despite its popularity the Mobile Database was ‘lost’ after a website migration, but thanks to advances in AI … Continue reading Welcoming back the Mobile Database
Technology. Spirituality. Change.
I’ve spent much of my life working at the intersection of technology and social good, something many of us used to call ICT4D. Over the years I’ve been involved in projects that use mobile phones to improve healthcare, increase access to education and give a voice to people often left unheard. But behind the code … Continue reading Technology. Spirituality. Change.
Welcome to ‘One Beautiful Road’
Most people want to make a difference. Almost everyone, if you ask them directly, will say they’d like to think the world might be a little better off as a result of their philanthropic efforts. And yet so much of that willingness rarely turns into anything real. It’s not because people don’t care, but because … Continue reading Welcome to ‘One Beautiful Road’