As 2024 will get underway, we’d wish to announce the outcomes of NextBillion’s annual “Most Influential Article of the 12 months” contest. A yearly custom since 2012, the competition highlights 12 of our most-read articles from the previous yr, giving readers a chance to vote for those that influenced their considering essentially the most.
This yr’s contest featured a robust slate of articles, masking a various array of subjects starting from techniques change to decarbonization, in sectors that included vitality, agriculture, finance and extra. (You possibly can entry all of the articles within the contest at this hyperlink.)
So with out additional ado, listed here are the three winners, as chosen by our readers.
First Place
In our top-voted article of 2023, Sofia Ollvid at SolarAid explores a SolarAid program that’s coaching technicians in Africa to restore photo voltaic gadgets, providing a promising answer to the issue of digital waste.
Second Place
In second place, an article from Brigit Helms at Miller Heart for Social Entrepreneurship highlights insights from social entrepreneurs in Miller Heart’s Clear Water and Local weather-Sensible Agriculture program, who talk about their improvements and classes discovered.
Third Place
In third place, an article from Lucie Klarsfeld McGrath, Louise Berthault and Jeanne Charbit at Hystra discusses analysis that sheds gentle in the marketplace for menstrual well being and hygiene options in eight rising economies.
As all the time, we invite you to learn (or re-read) these three excellent items — and all 12 of the articles within the contest. Many due to all of the readers who voted — we’re grateful in your ongoing assist and engagement. And particular due to the authors of those profitable articles, the opposite authors whose articles have been featured on this contest, and all of the visitor writers whose work we revealed up to now yr. Your insights drive NextBillion’s protection, and we’re trying ahead to working with you in 2024. We welcome all our readers and writers to contact us if you happen to’d like to debate a potential visitor article or different kind of collaboration within the coming yr. Joyful 2024!
James Militzer is the managing editor of NextBillion.
Picture tailored from a photograph by Jason Dent.
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