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The digital divide is emerging as one of the 21st century’s steepest hurdles to global equality. The COVID-19 pandemic has only deepened this digital divide and progress to bring more people online has slowed down.

Connecting everyone in the world to the web will not single-handedly bridge the digital divide, tech experts at the Web Summit said this week, citing other invisible barriers like high costs, low digital literacy, and complicated user interfaces. The so-called "digital divide" refers to the gap between those who have access to computers and the internet and those who don't,

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The climate crisis is forcing the fashion industry to swerve to an environmentally conscious mindset that, in hindsight, is the essence of luxury and high-quality products.

ITU and UNDP join forces to address urgent unmet capacity building needs ​​​​ The rise of digital technologies and ways of working offers extraordinary new opportunities to further global sustainable development and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, from increasing economic resilience to mitigating the damage of COVID-19 and delivering more effective public services. Yet not everyone is equally able to take advantage of these opportunities, particularly as the rapid pace of d...

ITU ​​​​ The rise of digital technologies and ways of working offers extraordinary new opportunities to further global sustainable development and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, from increasing economic resilience to mitigating the damage of COVID-19 and delivering more effective public services. Yet not everyone is equally able to take advantage of these opportunities, particularly as the rapid pace of digital change places further demands on resource-constrained governme...

Read later Audio version Summary: Robert Opp, United Nations Development Programme’s Chief Digital Officer Robert, shares his two-pronged digital strategy for transforming the agency internally and helping to shape the national digital activities of its member governments. (Pixabay/LinkedIn) Digital technology is at the heart of how the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) intends to achieve its goals of helping eradicate poverty and reduce inequality and exclusion around the world.�...

Business leaders underscore technology for delivering sustainability goals Dubai, UAE, February 7, 2021 Aveva, a global leader in engineering and industrial software, convened leaders from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Schneider Electric, Petronas and Verdantix in a virtual press panel session recently, to discuss how digitisation is driving the sustainability business agenda for industrial organisations.   Participants highlighted how in the past year, the world had faced ...

AVEVA, a global leader in engineering and industrial software, convened leaders from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Schneider Electric, PETRONAS and Verdantix in a virtual press panel session recently, to discuss how digitization is driving the sustainability business agenda for industrial organizations. Participants highlighted how in the past year, the world had faced a […]