Articles by Caylee Talpert
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Guest Articles
Wednesday
October 29
2025The Emergence of InfraTech: How AI and Other Digital Technologies are Enabling Climate-Resilient Transportation Infrastructure in LMICs
An estimated 1 billion people around the world lack access to all-weather roads. As Caylee Talpert at AnyWay Solutions explains, this means that over 12% of the global population cannot travel to school or work reliably throughout the year. She highlights the impacts of this gap, and explores how artificial intelligence, satellite and drone technology, and other advanced "InfraTech" solutions are optimizing climate-resilient transportation infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Technology, Transportation
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Guest Articles
Tuesday
May 23
2017Why a Few More Women Coders Isn’t Enough to Close the Digital Gender Divide
“Girls in ICT,” “women in tech,” “women in STEM,” “girls that code." Attend any conference on business, social enterprise or technology in emerging markets and you can likely take in a panel on one of these topics. But while high-level discussions and new initiatives to encourage girls to enter the technology field are steps in the right direction, there is still a long way to go in closing the digital gender divide.
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- Technology
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Guest Articles
Tuesday
August 12
2014Israeli Innovation Meets Rwandan Entrepreneurship: High-tech for Western markets is still the main focus of Israeli startups, but that’s slowly changing
Israel has the second-highest concentration of start-up companies after Silicon Valley, but most of this entrepreneurial energy has been focused on Western markets. This is slowly changing, with projects like kLab in Rwanda, writes Caylee Talpert, deputy director of the Pears Innovation for International Development Program at Tel Aviv University.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
