RDF-ASP2020 (中文) RDF-ASP2020
Information and communications technology (ICT) are both a meta infrastructure and an enabler of socioeconomic development. The impact of ICT on financial, transport and trade facilitation infrastructure and services can encourage innovations and provide a basis for an expanded digital economy that can be harnessed to address longstanding problems of exclusion, the altered climate and the degraded environment.
Over the years Asia and the Pacific region continued its robust growth in providing ICT connectivity to huge population living in the region. While the socioeconomic benefits created by ICT have been widely recognized over the past decades, ICT connectivity has not reached everyone who would benefit from it.
Equitable information and communications technology (ICT) connectivity around the Asia and the Pacific region remains a development bottleneck as is a particular concern in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic which has accelerated digitalization trends and requires policy makers, development partners and investors to review their strategies, fiscal space and investment priorities. More specifically, the session will provide information on the following topics: | Ms. Anju Mangal
Head of Asia-Pacific Region, A4AI,
Web Foundation
[Short bio]
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Mr. John Garrity
Consultant (Digital Connectivity),
Asian Development Bank
[Short bio] [Presentation]
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Mr Syed Aamir Riaz
Programme Officer
[Short bio] [Presentation]
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Mr. Tomas Lamanauskas
MP EnVision and Advisor BDT
[Short bio] [Presentation]
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