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#119: GiveDirectly's AI Flood Cash Missed the Farmers Who Could Not Charge a Phone, Microsoft Puts 5 Million Dollars Behind California's Wildfire Cameras, Sikkim Wires Its 16 Most Dangerous Glacial Lakes
Impact Signals #119: GiveDirectly's AI Flood Cash Missed the Farmers Who Could Not Charge a Phone, Microsoft Puts 5 Million Dollars Behind California's Wildfire Cameras, Sikkim Wires Its 16 Most Dangerous Glacial Lakes The New Humanitarian went to Ibaji, on Nigeria's Niger and Benue floodplains, to find out who GiveDirectly's forecast-triggered cash pilot actually paid, and found that the flood model held while the phone-based enrolment and exact-match identity checks cut out farmers who could not afford a charging hub or whose names did not match a bank record; GiveDirectly has since…
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