A view of crowded streets in the Kigali city center during the afternoon rush hour on April 05, 2024 in Kigali, Rwanda. (Photo by J. Countess/Getty Images)
In an age where artificial intelligence (AI) can write poetry and drive cars, our development algorithms still struggle with a fundamental task: recognising human potential. In the Global South, millions of informal workers operate in sophisticated, self-regulated networks that rival corporate structures in their complexity. Yet our…