| Tech Hubs in Africa after the Pandemic - 26/04/2023 |
| International Trade Center / ITU WSIS |
| International and Regional Organizations | International |
| The entrepreneurial support landscape in Africa is changing. Over the last ten years, a new generation of Business Support Organizations (BSOs) known as ‘tech hubs’ have emerged and rapidly spread across the continent. According to Afrilabs’ most recent survey -pre-pandemic-, 1031 hubs were operating across Africa in October 2021 “Tech hub” is a broad term that describes a diverse set of organizat (...) |
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| ASEAN Post-COVID Digital Policy Priorities - How do COVID-19 and emerging economic drivers change ASEAN digital policy priorities? - 03/04/2023 |
| ASEAN |
| International and Regional Organizations | International |
| The economies of ASEAN span the full spectrum from high income to middle income to emerging. This inevitably means that they have different economic and social policy priorities. Nonetheless, all the nations of ASEAN have important common characteristics: they are located in one of the most economically regions of the world and they are relatively dependent on international trade. In a very real (...) |
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| Financial Inclusion-Friendly government-to-person payment programs (G2P): Recommendations for Stakeholders - 27/10/2022 |
| CGAP |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | International |
| The recent COVID-19 pandemic saw an unprecedented response to the expansion of government-to-person payment programs (G2P) as countries adopted new ways to quickly transfer funds to their citizens. The World Bank estimates that roughly 760 million people have received G2P payments digitally since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and that digital payment programs on average paid more quickly (...) |
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| How COVID-19 put the role of technology in education under the spotlight - 03/10/2022 |
| OECD |
| International and Regional Organizations | International |
| Education at a Glance is the authoritative source for data on the state of education around the world. It provides information on the structure, finances and performance of education systems across OECD countries and partner economies. A specific chapter is dedicated to the COVID crisis and the shift from crisis management to recovery. Two new indicators on professional development for teachers a (...) |
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| The Role of Digital in the COVID-19 Social Assistance Response - 19/09/2022 |
| The World Bank |
| International and Regional Organizations | International |
| The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in vast numbers of people in need of social assistance, many of whom were not previously covered by social safety nets. To meet this unprecedented level of need, governments quickly scaled social assistance reaching over 1.7 billion people in low- and middle income countries. Scaling up social assistance presented two separate but related challenges: first, adapting (...) |
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| Digital transformation of transportation in Latin America and the Caribbean - 10/06/2022 |
| Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) |
| International and Regional Organizations | International |
| In the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the adoption of technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, and edge computing can bring unprecedented benefits to the sector in order to increase its efficiency, sustainability, and inclusion. The crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic gave concrete examples of these benefits allowing, among others, to continue with (...) |
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