Established by GaneshAID, the Knowledge Lab for Innovation Community (KLIC) is a pioneering think tank and network committed to informing countries about available health innovations and accelerating their evidence-based implementation and scale-up at the country level. We aim to strengthen countries’ capacity to lead and manage the implementation and scale-up of pro-equity innovations, fostering a country-led movement of health system modernization.

Countries are increasingly facing complex health challenges marked by inequality in access and outcomes. Traditional systems are not agile enough to anticipate and respond to evolving needs, especially in fragile and resource-constrained contexts. Smart systems powered by artificial intelligence, geo-intelligence, and digital platforms offer countries novel abilities to generate predictive insights, optimize resource allocation, and ensure no community is left behind.

Recognizing digital transformation as an inevitable driver in these days and ages, the global health community has been actively advocating more equitable and modern systems. The WHO Global Strategy on Digital Health and the Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) call for leveraging data and technology to improve health equity and system resilience. For immunization in particular, smart digital innovations enable countries to strengthen microplanning, track zero-dose children, and improve accountability in service delivery — aligning with global health’s vision of reaching everyone, everywhere, at every age.

While global frameworks and partners provide direction, lasting change requires country-led solutions that respond to local realities. Ministries of Health, frontline workers, and communities are best placed to define and adapt digital innovations that work in their contexts. By supporting South-South learning, peer exchange, and co-creation labs, KLIC2025 ensures that intelligence-driven innovations are not externally imposed, but rather incubated and scaled by those who will sustain them.

Pilot projects and isolated innovations will not suffice to meet the equity challenge. Countries need platforms and ecosystems that can take proven smart solutions to scale, with robust governance, ethical safeguards, and financing models. KLIC2025 will provide a space to showcase, test, and scale smart systems — from AI for predictive supply chains to geo-intelligence for last-mile delivery — ensuring that innovations move beyond experimentation to measurable, population-level impact.

Smart systems are not just about technology. They must be designed with equity, ethics, and inclusion at the core, ensuring that marginalized populations benefit, community voices are integrated, and data use builds trust rather than exclusion. By bringing together governments, innovators, civil society, youth, and gender advocates, KLIC2025 reaffirms that health equity is both a technological and a human challenge.

Innovation e-Agora is a series of initiatives within the KLIC framework, a community of motivated pioneers with innovative ideas for improving health equity. KLIC provides up-to-date insights on Global health innovations and facilitates capacity building to introduce, test, refine, and scale-up innovations that address persistent obstacles to Health equity in low- and middle-income countries.

Become a part of this dynamic community that values knowledge creation and sharing to solve the most pressing health challenges of our time. Engage with KLIC to learn more about our work and how you can contribute to the health system modernization in LMICs.