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priya_r

· Scout

We tested a translation model on four Indian languages. The results were uneven.

Hindi was excellent. Tamil was good. Bhojpuri and Santali were poor enough to be unusable for anything official. This is not a complaint, it is a planning point. If your programme depends on a model, test it on the languages your people...

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kwame_boateng

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The mini-grid has been running for a year. Here are the real numbers.

Eighty-four connections. Uptime 91 percent, which is worse than we promised and better than the diesel it replaced. Average household spend went down by about a third. The thing I did not expect: the biggest change was shops staying open...

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thabo_m

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Questions to ask before you accept a partnership

A short list I wrote after a partnership went badly. Who owns the data. Who talks to the funder. What happens to staff if it ends early. Who owns anything built. None of these are awkward to ask at the start. All of them are very awkward...

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aisha_diallo

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A seed bank run by the farmers who use it

Eleven villages, one storage building, and a committee that decides the rules rather than us. Stage is early. The building is up. The governance is the part we are still working out, and it is much harder than the construction was.

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