Take a photo-led tour of WALI's rural innovation lab in Ahmed Abad Wang.
A place-led answer to what a practical rural innovation lab in Balochistan actually looks like.
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Field stories and practical ideas from a rural innovation lab connected to the world.
The WALI Journal documents what the lab is doing, what its initiatives are learning, and what partners can verify through reports, field evidence, and public program records.
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WALI's 2025 annual report: a year of programs, learners, and growth.
196 learners trained, six Urdu AI workshops delivered, a winter digital learning camp for children, and a full timeline of how the lab has grown since 2021.
- Founded in 2021 and opened as a solar-powered community-led tech lab in October 2022
- 196 learners completed the core digital literacy program in 2025
- 108 female and 88 male learners completed the three-month course
Latest stories
From the lab, the field, and the communities WALI works with.
Stories about rural innovation, girls' digital access, women's enterprise, Urdu AI, connectivity, and community learning across Pakistan.
How girls in Balochistan are accessing repeated digital learning close to home.
A field story grounded in WALI's girls' computer-lab images and 2025 participation record.
Read articleWhy solar-powered internet matters when rural learning depends on power and connectivity together.
A lab-based explanation of how WALI's infrastructure makes repeated access possible.
Read articleHow AI teacher training becomes more usable in Pakistan when the explanation happens in Urdu.
A teacher-facing bridge between Urdu AI, workshop delivery, and local facilitation.
Read articleWhy WIRE's mother-daughter model matters for women's innovation in rural Pakistan.
An enterprise story linking income, school continuity, and women's digital confidence.
Read articleHow WALI responds to the digital divide in Balochistan through place, infrastructure, and language access.
A data-led explainer built from annual-report and organizational-profile evidence.
Read articleWhat 196 learners trained in 2025 reveal about digital literacy impact in Lasbela.
A closer breakdown of completion, gender balance, and why repeated training matters more than one-off events.
Read articleWhy internet quality in Pakistan becomes a public-interest issue, not only a user complaint.
An infrastructure-facing article linking rural access problems to PakSpeed's civic utility.
Read articleHow WANG, WALI, and product initiatives form a nonprofit social enterprise model in Pakistan.
A cleaner explanation of why mission, delivery, and products are split across the ecosystem.
Read articleHow community internet access in Ahmed Abad Wang turned a village into a working digital learning site.
A place-based story showing how local access changes what a rural community can do.
Read articleReports and records
Annual reports, initiative records, and program outcomes — all in one place.
For partners, journalists, funders, and public institutions looking to understand WALI's work through dated records, operating metrics, and initiative history.
How the Urdu AI Dost program trained facilitators across Pakistan and reached 2,600+ learners in one month.
A dedicated look at the community-facilitator model behind Urdu AI's national grassroots expansion.
Read articleWALI Annual Report 2025 records 196 learners, six AI workshops, and a year-round rural lab in Lasbela.
The strongest institutional story in the archive: timeline, metrics, and what 2025 says about WALI's operating model.
Read articleHow WALI's digital literacy program trained 196 learners in 2025.
A closer look at the three-month curriculum, certificate pathway, and why the program matters for first-contact digital confidence.
Read articleSix Urdu AI workshops made artificial intelligence more accessible in rural Balochistan.
How WALI used simple Urdu, practical modules, and local facilitation to reduce the language barrier around AI.
Read articleWALI's winter digital learning camp gave children a local entry into technology.
The winter camp shows how the lab extends digital learning beyond adults and youth into earlier learning stages.
Read articleWhy the Internet Society partnership matters for WALI's rural innovation model.
Connectivity, solar power, and public validation helped make WALI more than a classroom. They made it infrastructure.
Read articleHow Ahmed Abad Wang became the local anchor for a rural innovation lab with wider ambition.
A place-based institutional story linking Bela, Lasbela, and the continuity of WALI's work since 2021.
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Each case study tells one story in depth — an initiative, a partnership, or a community outcome.
How WALI's work grows from a rural lab into programs and tools that reach beyond Lasbela.
How Internet Society-backed connectivity helped WALI become a real rural innovation lab.
Infrastructure, connectivity, and institutional backing made repeated delivery possible in Lasbela.
Read case studyHow Urdu AI grew from rural workshops into a national learning network.
Language access became one of the ecosystem's clearest national impact stories.
Read case studyHow WIRE turns women's innovation into livelihoods and school continuity.
A closer look at the enterprise pathway inside the wider WALI ecosystem.
Read case studyHow PakSpeed extends WALI's lab logic into public digital infrastructure.
PakSpeed shows why product thinking matters for a rural innovation institution.
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Browse by topic: programs, initiatives, partnerships, and field stories.
What happened, where it happened, who it served, and what the outcomes show.
Programs
Digital literacy, first-contact learning, youth support, and training services delivered from the lab.
Initiatives
Urdu AI, WIRE, PakSpeed, PakEducate, and the larger ecosystem emerging from Lasbela.
Partners
Funders, institutions, and collaborators that make the work more durable and more visible.
Field record
Reports, photos, workshops, community sessions, and annual metrics that build public trust over time.