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Here are some of the key quotes from the session. The World Economic Forum's latest Agenda Dialogues looked at the challenge of closing the digital divide and ensuring equitable access to the opportunities that internet connectivity affords. Taking part were: Paula Ingabire, Minister of Information and communications technology and Innovation ...
Countering the global digital divide is an increasingly urgent imperative because several essential aspects of everyday life – including banking, health care, education, media, communications and even identity – depend on access to digital tools and technologies. Connectivity has become a conduit to information, communication, education and ...
An open, modern 5G infrastructure, jointly built by the telecom, cloud and IT industries, can help close this digital divide. In 2020, the world embraced digital transformation at an expedited pace, reimagining technology’s critical role in how we work, learn and live. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic illuminated a long-standing issue ...
The EDISON Alliance is launching two new initiatives aimed at further reducing the digital divide: the Lighthouse Countries Network and the Digital Inclusion Navigator. These initiatives can further the work of the Alliance, and continue to alleviate the roadblocks that currently prevent billions from accessing a critical part of the global ...
The objective is to ensure that IsDB better serves the needs of its 57 member states and helps reduce the digital divide. The digitalisation and mainstreaming of ICT services into various developmental sectors will help develop the digital economies of developing and least-developed countries. Ultimately, this should lead to enhanced digital ...
The opportunity to innovate, create, and unlock new economic opportunities has never been greater, thanks in part to technology and global connectivity. But for 2.7 billion people without access to our digital world, that’s not their reality today. With technology a greater equaliser of opportunity, we can work together to bridge that gap.
But free access or not, UNESCO says that there remains a significant digital gender divide. Across 10 countries in Africa, Asia and South America, women are 30-50% less likely than men to use the internet to participate in public life. Globally, women are 23% less likely than men to use mobile internet.
On the one hand, COVID-19 increased the existing digital gender divide, setting equality between men and women back a generation. On the other hand, the digital acceleration fueled by the current sanitary and economic crisis, represents a historic opportunity we must seize for radical change.
To understand the impact of the digital divide across SDG issues, Connect Humanity created the State of Digital Inequity report, surveying thousands of Civil Society Organizations (CSO) that work to improve the lives of the most marginalized and vulnerable people on earth. More than 7,500 CSOs from 136 countries, which collectively serve more ...
COVID-19 has intensified the digital divide. Small retailers are a key source of economic support in communities. The pandemic has intensified a weakness of small retailers: their digital capabilities. The loss of small retailers will inhibit the economic recovery in Latin America, South East Asia and Africa.