Virtual - Capacity Development Webinar on “Developing Institutional Capacities in Digital Transformation for a More Inclusive and Equitable Recovery”., 14-15 December 2020.
The webinar aimed to strengthen public institutional capacities in public policymaking for digital transformation in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It aims to strengthen the digital capacity of countries, especially the developing countries, and in particular the capacity of the LDCs, SIDS, LLDCs, and countries with economies in transition, to participate in, and benefit from, the growing opportunities of digitalization while mitigating the risks. Mandated activity - General Assembly resolution 73/218 of 8 January 2019 emphasized that “there is a pressing need to address the major impediments that developing countries face in accessing new technologies”. It further stressed that “important and growing digital divides remain between and within developed and developing countries in terms of the availability, affordability and use of information and communications technologies and access to broadband”. The resolution recognized that ICTs have the potential to provide new solutions to development challenges and to integrate developing and least developed countries into the global economy. It is in this context that the capacity building webinar on Digital Transformation is organised, under the theme of “Developing Institutional Capacities in Digital Transformation for a More Inclusive and Equitable Recovery”. This webinar is a follow-up to the recommendations made during the Expert Group Meeting “Addressing Emerging Requirements and Challenges for Policy and Decision-Making in Digital Transformation in Developing Countries” convened by UN DESA/DPIDG in December 2019.
Event page: https://unpan.un.org/node/477
Final report: https://publicadministration.un.org/Portals/1/Final%20Report%20Capacity%20Development%20Webinar%2014-15%20Dec%202020.pdf