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SDG 9

All goals · Goal 9

Industry, innovation and infrastructure

College Hall, a long sandstone building with arched windows, on the American University of Beirut campus, with palm trees and a path.

Health · Lebanon, Jordan

A WhatsApp chatbot from Beirut helps people find health answers from trusted sources

HIBA answers everyday health questions by text or voice note, in 28 languages, using only curated WHO, IFRC and UNICEF material, and it will not diagnose. It was offered in Lebanon's displacement centers during the 2024 war and is still a small pilot with no independent results.

Pilot · From the ITU 2025 report · 6 min read

Adult teachers sit in rows of pink auditorium chairs, most looking at phones or papers, during a training session in Abuja.

Gender equality · Nigeria

A former teacher's NGO brings AI to girls and teachers in Abuja's public schools

Rising Hope Girls has students turn their drawings into AI images about girls' rights. It also runs school computer labs, trains teachers and built ReadBuddy, a reading app that won an ITU award in July 2026. Its reach and reading results so far are self-reported.

Deployed · From the ITU 2025 report · 6 min read

A teal speech generating device with a screen of picture buttons labelled Emergency, Talk, Feelings, Yes, No and Keyboard.

Accessibility · United Kingdom

Meet the technologist with ALS who built an AI voice tool with his eyes

Bernard Muller designed SMF VoXAI using only eye tracking. It drafts replies in a conversation and speaks them in the user's own voice through an avatar. It is still a pilot, and no results have been published yet.

Pilot · From the ITU 2025 report · 6 min read

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