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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 governments and societies.
Bridging the world s digital divide is increasingly urgent, as those who left out of today s digital transformation are in danger of falling further behind. This means ensuring that digital services are available everywhere, as well as affordable and accessible to all.
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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 governments and societies.
Bridging the world’s digital divide is increasingly urgent, as those who left out of today’s digital transformation are in danger of falling further behind. This means ensuring that digital services are available everywhere, as well as affordable and accessible to all.
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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:
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 a challenge that is unique in history, in its scale and scope, and industries have been adversely affected in many ways. The key takeaway from the session was that 2021 is set to be a year of resiliency and renewed rebuilding, and Industry 4.0 will enable employees and communities to optimise sustainable processes to reduce carbon footprints.