Join us for an exciting week with the Global Stoplight Network to discuss the latest trends in data and storytelling, technology and AI, and poverty elimination throughout the world.
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Welcome to the Poverty Stoplight Innovation Week!
The opening ceremony includes an intimate conversation with Dr. Martin Burt, Founder and CEO of Fundación Paraguaya and The Poverty Stoplight.
In dialogue with Rodrigo París, Latin American Social Changemaker, Philanthropist and Journalist.
Session held in Spanish with live audio translation in English.
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This session explores how civic technology can advance transparency, accountability, and measurable social impact.
Featuring Oluseun Onigbinde, co-founder of BudgIT and a leading advocate for fiscal transparency, open governance, and citizen engagement across Africa, and Julia Corvalan, PhD, Global Operations Manager at Poverty Stoplight and an international development expert focused …
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This conversation explores chronic overperformance, burnout, and the growing role of screens, devices, and digital tools in shaping how we work, strive, compare, and disconnect.
Drawing on themes from Life. Reclaimed: Find Freedom from Chronic Overperformance, Pippa Grange, a performance psychologist, culture coach, author, and ethical leadership fellow who has …
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This session explores how artificial intelligence can help turn insight into action, strengthen human agency, and accelerate the journey to ending extreme poverty.
Featuring Zahid Torres-Rahman of Business Fights Poverty, the conversation will draw on the organization’s work as a global community of 30,000 professionals advancing lives, livelihoods, and access …
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This recap session will highlight the latest technology updates across the Poverty Stoplight ecosystem, including improvements in data visualization, the AI chatbot, and the digital platform.
Guido Ruiz Díaz and Fabrizio Núñez of Fundación Paraguaya will share recent progress, key learnings, and next steps for strengthening the tools that support …
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Microfinance works best when it is part of a broader strategy that helps families build capabilities, dignity, and agency.
This session will explore how Poverty Stoplight technology can help microfinance institutions move beyond repayment rates alone and focus on whether families are measurably improving their lives.
In conversation with Larry …
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As a part of Poverty Stoplight Innovation Week, please join us for an intimate conversation with Raul Gauto, Paraguayan Social Changemaker, Environmentalist, and Entrepreneur.
He will be interviewed by Luis Fernando Sanabria, COO at Fundación Paraguaya. This candid exchange will cover Raul’s remarkable trajectory across the Latin American social impact …
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As artificial intelligence accelerates new possibilities for development, financial inclusion, and service delivery, this session asks a critical question: how do we ensure that technology strengthens human agency rather than replacing it?
In conversation with Julia Corvalan, of Poverty Stoplight, Eric Kaduru of CARE USA will explore what it means …
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The past decade has been marked by a decline in support and funding for initiatives in the humanitarian and development sector, best exemplified by the dismantling of USAID in early 2025. These trends have left knowledge and funding gaps that further highlight the need for new approaches in addressing global …
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This practical session will introduce partners to the new Stoplight Mobile App, highlighting its key improvements and walking through the survey-taking and synchronization flow.
Guido Ruiz Díaz and Fabrizio Núñez of Fundación Paraguaya will guide implementation teams through what has changed, how the app supports fieldwork, and what partners should …
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Data can feel intimidating: technical, abstract, and reserved for experts. But at its core, data is simply evidence: facts, observations, conversations, survey responses, patterns, and stories that can help us better understand the people and communities we serve.
In this session, Ibrahima Ball, Program Data Analyst for International Programs at …
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This session explores the evolving technology innovation ecosystem in Latin America, with a focus on entrepreneurship, investment, and regional trends.
In conversation with Julia Corvalan, Gabi Cibils and Vivianne Bernardes-Cibils of Cibersons will share perspectives from their work across venture capital, technology, and cross-border innovation.
Vivianne brings more than 35 …
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This “kitchen table” conversation brings together Aspen New Voices Fellows for a candid exchange on what is happening across the global development and social impact sectors — and where they are finding hope.
Convened by Julia Corvalan of Poverty Stoplight, the session will feature Elsa D’Silva of Red Dot Foundation/Safecity, …
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This conversation will explore the relationship between gender, poverty, and social change, with a focus on how bottom-up approaches can create meaningful “micro-transformations” in people’s lives and communities.
Featured guest Professor Emeritus Naila Kabeer of the London School of Economics and Political Science will bring her renowned expertise on gender, …
