In a sector where every dollar must have an impact, financing to experiment with artificial intelligence technology in the humanitarian and development space can be hard to come by.
“If we invest, some of these investments will work out, some of them won’t. That's definitely a tough reality in the sector we’re working in where nobody wants to waste money,” says Bernhard Kowatsch, head of the innovation accelerator at the World Food Programme.
For him, part of the answer is to co-design solutions with local communities and program officers as well as technology experts, to ensure they have the best chance of achieving impact.