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Community Health · AI

From Data to Decisions: Why Africa's Health AI Revolution Starts with Infrastructure, Not Algorithms

Kenya has 107,000 community health workers generating millions of data points every month — yet most of that data sits unanalysed. Here's what needs to change.

Dr. Wycliffe Mwebi, PhD
15 min read
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Public Health

Using Machine Learning for Early Outbreak Detection in Resource-Limited Settings

How we built a malaria prediction model that works with incomplete, delayed, and low-quality data from rural health facilities.

Dr. Sara Al-Mansouri
12 min read
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M&E & Development

Why Most NGO Dashboards Fail — and How to Build Ones That Don't

A frank look at the gap between what donors want to see and what program teams actually need to make decisions.

ZURI Research Team
8 min read
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Agriculture

Satellite Imagery for Smallholder Targeting: Lessons from West Africa

What we learned from trying to use remote sensing data to identify the highest-need farmers across three countries.

Dr. James Kariuki
10 min read
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Generative AI

Deploying LLMs in Low-Bandwidth, Multilingual Environments: A Practical Guide

Technical lessons from deploying AI assistants for community health workers in East Africa where connectivity is unreliable.

Tobias Müller
14 min read
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Ethics & AI

Responsible AI in Humanitarian Contexts: Moving Beyond Principles to Practice

How we operationalize ethical AI in high-stakes environments — and why most ethical AI frameworks fall short in the field.

ZURI Ethics Team
9 min read
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FinTech

Beyond FICO: Building Credit Scores for the Unbanked in the Middle East

How psychometric data, mobile behavior, and social capital signals can predict creditworthiness where financial records don't exist.

ZURI FinTech Team
11 min read