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Given the significant role the IMF plays in shaping governments’ macroeconomic policies through providing loans and guidance, an increased focus on gender equality at the Fund is critical. The new gender strategy will help to increase alignment between the Fund’s support to governments and its own research identifying gender equality as macro-critical. The strategy’s implementation offers the opportunity for a more intentional, systematic effort to ensure that IMF lending and advice do not...

While clearly on the right path, Saudi Arabia still has a lot to do before it reaps the full benefits of open data.

Botswana is among countries in the world which are publishing inadequate data disaggregated by sex, thereby weakening and undercutting policies meant to

Building gender aware data systems is critical to create a level playing field for women and girls Photo: © Stephan Gladieu / World Bank To advance an affirmative answer to this question, the World Development Report (WDR) 2021: Data for Better Lives calls for a new social contract for data that ensures better representation for marginalized people. This means that data captured and analyzed in data systems reflect the needs of ALL people. While data are generally undersupplied and underused...

Building gender aware data systems are critical to create a level playing field for women and girls Photo: © Stephan Gladieu / World Bank To advance an affirmative answer to this question, the World Development Report (WDR) 2021: Data for Better Lives calls for a new social contract for data that ensures better representation for marginalized people. This means that data captured and analyzed in data systems reflect the needs of ALL people. While data are generally undersupplied and underuse...

Africa Information Highway (AIH) Live Exchange #Session 5 Publication : 6 avril 2021 What: Africa Information Highway Live Exchange 5 Who: African Development Bank, Open Data Watch and partners When: Wednesday, 14 April 2021, 12.00-13:45 GMT PARAMETRAGE Cookies fonctionnels Ce site utilise des cookies pour assurer son bon fonctionnement et ne peuvent pas être désactivés de nos systèmes. Nous ne les utilisons pas à des fins publicitaires. Si ces cookies sont bloqués, certaine...

The UAE ranks first in the Gulf, Arab Region, and Western Asia, and seventh globally in the Telecommunication Infrastructure Index. The UAE achieves No.1 position in mobile subscription index and mobile broadband Internet subscription index. The UAE maintains its leadership in 5G, the fifth generation of mobile commercial service in the country. According to The Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority ‘s report, the year 2020 witnessed a noticeable increase in the dema...

The Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority: Great strides by the UAEs telecommunications sector
during 2020

Great strides by the UAEs telecommunications sector during 2020 Filed on March 13, 2021 According to The Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authoritys report, the year 2020 witnessed a noticeable increase in the demand for telecommunications and internet services. This growth is also a reflection of the sectors readiness and the authoritys resolve to move towards the future, by deploying all modern technologies in the best way possible to realise greater achievements a...

DUBAI, 25 days ago The UAEs telecommunications infrastructure ranks first in the Gulf, Arab Region and Western Asia, and seventh globally in the Telecommunications Infrastructure Index, according to the UN E-Government Survey 2020.   In the Smart Services Index, the UAE ranks first in the Gulf, the Arab Region and West Asia, and the eighth in the world, said a statement from the UAE Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDGRA).   The authority said the year 202...