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Client Impact Letter – 2023
DevGlobal community, 2022 was a year of immense growth. Growth for us meant focusing in on our strengths
Our Work in Action
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How Accelerator Programs Drive Growth and Innovation for Corporations
In an era where innovation is a necessity, companies are increasingly turning to business accelerator programs to surface novel approaches, create new strategic directions and generate change
Case Studies
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Negotiating a Humanitarian Data License
Get the Most Data for your Dollar – How the Pros Negotiate a Humanitarian License Fight for health
Agriculture
Modern Food Systems: Role of Digital and Regenerative Agriculture
Agricultural practices and food systems play a major role in many pressing challenges, including climate change, nutritional security,
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What Does GIS Day Mean to Us?
For those of us working in geospatially focused organizations, the applicability of using geographic information systems (GIS) to
Geospatial
Producing Global Training Dataset Labels
The ramp project is working with the World Health Organization to map healthcare buildings, a tool that will support humanitarian emergency response teams in the likelihood of the next pandemic. In this blog post, we discuss the labeling process, answering a fundamental question: How can we ensure generating high-quality labels working with remote teams?
Geospatial
A Perfect Machine Learning Training Data Set?
“What is good enough” is a living question that has evolved over the span of the ramp project. It starts at the end, in defining our use case and engaging end-users as advisors to get an idea of how the model outputs will be utilized. Working backward in this way has allowed us to craft our approach to establishing training data guidance and quality assurance . . .
Geospatial
Creating our on-ramp: how to train a hungry AI model
The ramp project is an ambitious endeavor for many reasons, not the least of which is the curation and open release of high-quality training data in the form of tens of thousands of high-resolution imagery chips with accompanying labels that “teach” our machine learning model . . .
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COVID Reflections
We failed to recognize community and country needs in rolling out COVID Vaccines. We can learn from these
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Introducing the RAMP Project
Leap-frogging the digital divide There’s power in mapping. Maps mean recognition – an acknowledgment that communities exist and
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion – living our values as a small business
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are priorities for DevGlobal. As the world navigates a new way forward with the
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From Nairobi and Back Again
As a teenager, I was unsure of my future and all the potential paths between the local and global chasm. How am I supposed to change the world for good? How can one person truly understand the world? How can change transcend borders, cultures and histories?
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2022 Impact Letter – DevGlobal
DevGlobal team, partners, and fellow change makers, I am nervous, but excited. . . DevGlobal has signed up