by GDI | Mar 5, 2026 | Comment
by Louisa Hann If today’s Silicon Valley billionaires are to be believed, AI is about to supercharge your quality of life, boost your productivity, and provide access to “wildly abundant” intelligence. As Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI puts it, the future “can be vastly...
by GDI | Feb 27, 2026 | Comment
By Lujia Feng, Programme Director: MSc Human Resource Management (International Development) On Thursday, 12 February 2026, we were delighted to welcome Kashif Taj, Apprenticeships Leader at IBM UK, to speak with our MSc Human Resource Management (International...
by GDI | Feb 16, 2026 | Comment
Workshop Title: Resilient Amazon Futures: Strengthening Food, Water, Forest, and Land Governance for Sustainable Development UK Principal Instructor: José A. Puppim de Oliveira, University of Manchester Brazil Principal Instructor: Claudio Szlafsztein, Federal...
by GDI | Feb 12, 2026 | Comment
by Anuradha Ganapathy, PhD Researcher at the Global Development Institute Can you write about AI without ever once referring to it? These were my first thoughts when I came back from the field, learning from and with communities in rural India who were experimenting...
by GDI | Feb 10, 2026 | Comment
by Dr Erika Garcia Fermin, Honorary Research Fellow at the Global Development Institute Last week I had a really energising conversation with Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry on Urban Radar, a podcast by Sheffield Urbanism that discuss current events through the lens of...
by GDI | Feb 6, 2026 | Comment
On Tuesday, 27th January, we held our final community of practice in a series exploring the role of resilience in maintaining a thriving and impactful development sector. Over the past few months, we’ve been bringing together development practitioners, academics, and...
