
Building Inclusive Digital Economies
We’re Caribou Digital
We’re working to create a more just, inclusive and ethical digital world. In partnership with governments, foundations and companies across geographies and sectors we are shaping the future of digital finance, the future of work, skills development, identity, data, policy and more. Find out more about our team of global experts who are working toward equitable and sustainable outcomes in the age of digital development.
What we’re saying
From our blog
The human impact of identity exclusion in financial services
Stories from the UK and Ghana
Savita Bailur
Mar 28
Online livelihoods and young women’s economic empowerment in Nigeria
We are starting a new research project — and we’d like you to join us on the journey.
Digital Identity for Development — and protection
On August 27th, the Taliban boasted of using US digital identity technology to hunt down Afghans who had worked with the international coalition. This should be a wake-up call to all those working on digital identity and digital public infrastructure for development.
Emrys Schoemaker
Sep 07
Recent Publications
Meet Our Advisors

Featured Advisor: Savita Bailur
Research Director at Caribou Digital
Savita is a Research Director at Caribou Digital. She has worked with clients including Omidyar Network, the World Bank and UNICEF while at Caribou. She has around fifteen years of experience on user research in digital development, ranging from gender and access to mobile technology to the identification of marginalized/vulnerable populations in a digital age. She speaks fluent Hindi and Spanish and conversational French, has lived in India and Honduras and has worked in countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America, including India, Brazil, Cote d'Ivoire, Lebanon, Thailand and Kenya. Savita's expertise is qualitative research - conducting interviews and focus groups and analysing these through storytelling and narrative analysis. She has also previously worked on digital governance, telecenters, gender and digital entrepreneurship, community radio and mobile internet use. She has worked with organizations including UN Women, the World Wide Web Foundation, Aptivate, mySociety, the World Bank (Global Governance Practice in DC), Microsoft Research India, Commonwealth Secretariat, USAID (Honduras) and Panos. Savita is a Visiting Fellow at the Media and Communications Department at the London School of Economics (LSE). She was previously a tenure track academic - a co-Program Director for the MSc Management in Information Systems: Development and Change at the University of Manchester and Assistant Professor in ICTs and Development at the University of Manchester. She has also taught in the Information Systems Group (Management Department) and Media and Communications Department at LSE, most recently as course convenor and lecturer on the MSc course on Policy and Practice in ICTs and Development. She holds a PhD and MSc in Information Systems from the LSE as well as degrees from the University of London and University of Cambridge. She has several publications, including two World Bank publications: Evaluating Digital Citizen Engagement: A Practical Guide (2016) and Closing the Feedback Loop: Can Technology Bridge the Accountability Gap (2014). She has also had papers published in the International Journal of Communication, Government Information Quarterly, Information Technology and International Development, Gender, Technology and Development and has spoken at multiple conferences. She is a member of Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Community and several design research groups. Savita is based between London and New York.