The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has released the Digital Strategy 2022-2025 to support countries and groups to use digital technologies as a starting point to promote the reduction of inequality, increase inclusiveness, combat climate change, and explore more economic development opportunities.
Through this bold and ambitious strategy, UNDP hopes to be able to stay ahead of the curve in the face of the evolving digital technologies to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
United Nations Development Programme
Strategic Plan 2022-2025
In the new strategic plan, digitalization itself is also one of the three main means of helping UNDP achieve its core goals. Several of UNDP's core goals include supporting 100 million people out of poverty and helping 500 million people gain access to clean energy.
Digital technologies can promote fairness and equity by promoting civic and political participation and the conduct of authentication, data exchange and payment to reduce corruption. It is estimated that by 2030, artificial intelligence and digital technologies can reduce global carbon dioxide emissions by 10%-20%.
Achim Steiner
Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
"Digital technologies are opening up new ways of working and thinking, but they are also tapping into opportunities we never dared to imagine, such as helping policymakers better understand how our natural world – like forests, coral reefs and glaciers – is changing and where we need to act." Take the UNDP Future for Data platform, for example, which provides policymakers with up-to-date data and analysis to clarify key areas like vaccine equity. ”
Digital transformation is imminent
UNDP supports communities in developing and using digital technologies to explore a range of development options that are urgently needed.
Over the course of a year, UNDP helped 82 countries adopt more than 580 digital solutions to respond to COVID-19 (also known as "COVID-19").
These include digital finance to help people in quarantine pay by cash transfer; helping countries conduct digital assessments; and providing ward robots during the pandemic.
@Rwanda A ROBOT donated by the United Nations Development Programme helps staff test for COVID-19 (also known as "COVID-19") at the International Airport and two treatment centres in Kigali
The strategy will also help UNDP address the emerging challenges facing the new digital world. Without the right governance tools, digital technologies can exacerbate inequality and prejudice. While we have made some progress bridging the digital divide, today, 2.9 billion people around the world still do not have access to the Internet, a large proportion of whom are women in developing countries.
Robert Opple
Chief Digital Officer, United Nations Development Programme
"Last year, many of our partner countries increased their need for digital transformation, and UNDP is currently supporting digital transformation in 35 countries. This is the trust that countries have placed in us and that our strong support can meet their needs. We are committed to rights-based, whole-of-society digital transformation that leaves no one behind. We hope that our efforts will benefit everyone in the world, not just our generation, but our children and grandchildren. ”
Leaving no one behind is a long way off
UNDP will help countries benefit from digital technologies in three ways:
First, digital technologies will be widely used in UNDP's work to achieve more effective results in development efforts, while at the same time, an emphasis on innovative approaches and tools will scale promising solutions and provide insight into future possibilities through forward-looking forecasting.
Second, UNDP will support groups to create a rights-based, inclusive and resilient digital ecosystem that leaves no one behind.
Third, UNDP will continue to drive its own transformation to lead by example to meet current and future technology needs. We launched the UNDP Smarter Future initiative to encourage participants to continuously improve their digital skills and learn to use data strategically to protect the future of UNDP.
UNDP will engage and engage with a wide range of people around the world, including entrepreneurs, academia, researchers, youth and policymakers, to promote global collaboration on responsible technology and sustainable use. These dialogues are necessary to identify and scale many digitally-related local development scenarios. The outcome of these dialogues will be incorporated into the UNDP Accelerator Lab Network.
Rooted in the framework outlined in the UN Secretary-General's Roadmap for Digital Cooperation and our Common Agenda, UNDP's Digital Strategy 2022-2025 is an important complement to the UN's global efforts to expand access to affordable broadband, with a particular focus on the digital empowerment of key groups, including women and people with disabilities, creating more jobs for them and advancing human development.
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