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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.
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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.
The organization, which operates in 170 member countries and territories, was in fact the first agency within the wider UN family to devise a digital strategy, which it started work on in late 2018. By September 2019, it had hired Robert Opp, former Director of the UN’s World Food Programme’s Innovation & Change Management Division, to assume the newly-created role of Chief Digital Officer (CDO). Opp says:
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NCA Gov. Khalid bin Abdullah Al-Sabti and ITU’s telecommunication development bureau director Doreen Bogdan-Martin signing the agreement in Geneva (Asharq Al-Awsat) Geneva - Asharq Al-Awsat
The Saudi National Cybersecurity Authority signed a strategic partnership agreement with the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on Thursday, launching the global program on “Creating a Safe and Prosperous Cyberspace for Children .
National Cybersecurity Authority Gov. Khalid bin Abdullah Al-Sabti and ITU’s telecommunication development bureau director Doreen Bogdan-Martin penned the accord at the union’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
Delegates from both sides attended the ceremony, including the Kingdom’s permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, envoy Dr. Abdul Aziz Al-Wasel, and deputy governor of the NCA for international cooperation, Majid bin Mohammed Al-M