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Here’s what I find maddening about the current state of AI governance in humanitarian organizations: we’ve got 80% of aid workers using AI tools daily while fewer than 25% of their organizations have any formal AI policies. That’s organizational negligence disguised as prudence. Too many humanitarian organizations are paralyzed by the complexity of AI governance, […] The post Use This Simple AI Framework to Stop Drowning in AI Governance appeared first on ICTworks.

AI-native African companies took less than 2% of the continent’s startup funding in the first half of 2026, Grégoire de Padirac, CEO of Digital Africa, told BusinessDay. Over the same period, the number of African startups raising at least $100,000 fell to 190, the lowest since 2021. $200,000 Opportunity Askya AI Growth Platform is a […] The post Apply Now: $200,000 and Coaching for African AI Startups appeared first on ICTworks.

African startups raising between $100,000 and $1 million fell from 179 deals in the second half of 2025 to just 100 in the first half of 2026, a 44% drop in exactly the segment that funds first products. Early-stage founders are being squeezed hardest at the moment AI tooling is changing what a three-person team […] The post Apply Now: Google Africa Applied AI Lab for Founders appeared first on ICTworks.

Africa has 50 data centers that Uptime Institute has physically inspected and certified as built to Tier III or Tier IV. Morocco holds 17 of them, more than three times the next country, and it is almost never the one anyone names first when the sector talks about African data centers. Sector coverage ranks the […] The post Wow! Morocco Leads Africa in Certified Data Center Construction appeared first on ICTworks.

Asia-Pacific is the most disaster-prone region in the world. The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific projects that climate-induced disaster losses could near US$1 trillion annually, or 3 percent of regional GDP, under a 2°C warming scenario. Green technology is gaining traction across the region, but it is not scaling fast […] The post Apply Now: Google DeepMind AI for the Planet Accelerator appeared first on ICTworks.