
Why we publish the numbers that make us look bad
Seventy-nine per cent of the trees we plant survive to three years. That means a fifth of them die. Here is why we print the second sentence.
Route quality, numbering regulation, messaging deliverability and enterprise WAN design - written by the engineers and carrier-relations people who run the interconnects they describe.

A village can sit inside a coverage map and still be offline in every way that matters. That gap is why the Foundation exists.

The handpump is the cheap part. Here is the ten-year number, and why we insist on funding it up front.

We were training women successfully and losing them at the offer stage. The fix was accommodation and a conversation with their parents.

In a disaster the scarcest resource is not food or blankets. It is knowing who is where and what they need.

We arrived with a plan for a computer lab. The panchayat wanted drainage. Here is what we did.

Telecom generates enormous quantities of e-waste and India recycles very little of it safely. We should not get credit for cleaning up after ourselves.

The intervention our participants rank highest is a phone call from the same person, at the same time, every week.