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SDG Digital GameChangers Award

Category 3: Prosperity – Promoting economic growth

Digital projects, applications, and policies can spur economic growth, job creation, and sustainable infrastructure development.

Category 4: Peace – Building peaceful and inclusive societies

Building Peaceful and Inclusive Societies
This category aims to leverage the power of ICTs to build peaceful, just, and inclusive societies while highlighting the importance of international collaboration. It recognizes the transformative power of digital in strengthening governance structures, promoting transparency, and facilitating cooperation among diverse stakeholders.
Submissions for this category may include but are not limited to ICT projects, applications or policies that promote:

  • Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution, leveraging digital to promote peacebuilding efforts, conflict prevention, and resolution, fostering social cohesion and harmony within communities and societies
  • Access to Justice, highlighting initiatives that utilize ICTs to improve access to justice, enhance legal systems ensuring equal rights and protection for all individuals
  • Transparency, recognizing initiatives that promote good governance and transparency, through digital platforms, enabling citizens to engage with institutions
  • Data-driven Decision Making, highlighting initiatives that harness data and digital technologies to inform evidence-based policymaking, improve public service delivery, and strengthen decision-making processes at local, national, and international levels
SDG Digital GameChangers Award Category 3: Prosperity
Category 3: Prosperity

Related SDGs

Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

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Project Name: ekShop
Organization: a2i programme, ICT Division, Bangladesh
Stakeholder Type: Government

ekShop is the First rural e-commerce platform in Bangladesh, helping producers in rural areas and the thousands of marginal entrepreneurs and SMEs to be able to sell their goods in and outside the country using the e-commerce marketplace. The marketplace incorporates all the major and trusted e-commerce, payments and logistic players into one platform through API and acts as a national e-commerce facilitator and infrastructure backbone. Entrepreneurs can go to government-run digital centres around the country to learn how to upload data and information of their products (capacity building)

Impact: integrated major e-commerce companies, connecting 180k micro-merchants and serving 8M consumers.

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