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Operationalizing the WDR
In the last decade or so, mobile phones have been appearing in the least likely of places: in the hands of a Masai warrior in the middle of the Kenyan bush, on a fishing boat off the coast of Vanuatu’s...
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Partnerships and opportunities for digital jobs
What are ‘digital jobs’? If you have access to a computer, Internet and online or mobile payment, can you get a job? The answer is yes, but having basic literacy and computer skills are essential....
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Are we heading towards a jobless future?
From the wheel to the steam engine, from the car to ‘New Horizons’ — an inter-planetary space probe capable of transmitting high-resolution images of Pluto and its moons — from the abacus to exascale...
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SDG target focusing on identification critical to supporting achievement of...
Photo: © UNICEF/BANA2012-02020/Jannatul Mawa This week, multilateral development banks (MDBs) and IMF representatives gathered for Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis...
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Energy analytics for access, efficiency and development
Image from Chris Chopyak, who captured the workshop in simple designs and strategic illustrations What do Open and Big Data principles and advanced analytics have to do with energy access and...
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Cleaning the planet, one web application at a time
When you think about clean technology, images of wind turbines, solar panels and electric cars most likely come to mind. You probably don’t connect it with things like mobile applications, Big Data,...
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アイデアソン：コード・フォー・レジリエンスでイノベーション創出のために技術と災害リスクの専門家が結集
自然災害の現場に最初に到着するのは、ほとんどの場合、被害を受けたコミュニティの人々です。しかし、災害からの復旧、復興のメカニズムはトップダウン型であることが多く、そのためのツールやプロセスも政府や機関によって構築されています。防災グローバル・ファシリティ（GFDRR）が運営するグローバル・イニシアティブ であるコード・フォー・レジリエンス...
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Inspirational stories from connect:ID – the journey to digital IDs for all
Today marks the end of the connect:ID conference, one of the most influential events in the United States, powered through an alliance with the world’s leading identity industry association. courtesy...
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Mobile services: a game-changer for the greater good
Mobile services are the extension services of inclusion. Increasingly, the world’s poor – and especially the bottom 40 percent in terms of income – are being reached via mobile devices by government...
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Ideathon: Code for Resilience mixes tech and disaster risk experts to spark...
The first people to arrive at the scene of any natural disaster are almost always members of the affected community. Yet in most cases, disaster response and recovery mechanisms are built from the top...
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The criterion problem: Measuring the legal identity target in the post-2015...
Legal identity credentials are essential for social protection and full participation in societies and economies.The proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) target #16.9 puts the spotlight on...
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Means versus ends: Deconstructing the Sustainable Development Goals and the...
The post-2015 development agenda is being shaped as we speak. The United Nations recently released a report that synthesizes the full range of inputs received from various stakeholders. These inputs,...
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Categorizing the collaboration and community promotion spaces that make urban...
A variety of collaboration spaces are spreading across urban innovation ecosystems. This makes sense intuitively, because collaboration spaces create and — in some cases — manage and sustain the...
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Makers and education, part one: how are disruptive technologies affecting the...
Girls learning how to design and make a toy with a laser cutter, which increases interest in STEM career options. Photo: Saori Imaizumi/World Bank Group Affordable, accessible technologies can...
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Connectivity equals opportunity: PPPs narrow the "broadband gap"
A billboard announces the arrival of high-speed broadband internet in downtown Nukua'lofa, the capital of Tonga. Photo: Tom Perry / World Bank You don’t need to be a grandparent or even have a...
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How affordable is broadband?
(Note: China and India were broken out in this graph due to the distorting effect of their populations on the estimations per region.) According to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU),...
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Government disrupted – now for the creative construction phase
“There is almost nothing that government can or should do alone,” said one of the panelists at a recent global webinar on the future of digital government.[1] This was just one of the many signals of...
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Fostering cities as technology innovation ecosystems: a big opportunity for...
Source: Florida, Richard (2013) “The Global Startup Cities”Cities are becoming the new ecosystems for innovation. Recent studies on venture capital (VC) investment in the United States reveal that...
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Good Open Data. . . by design
An unprecedented number of individuals and organizations are finding ways to explore, interpret and use Open Data. Public agencies are hosting Open Data events such as meetups, hackathons and data...
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A global information society: are we there yet?
Gender and inclusion must be more integrated into global information and communication technology(ICT) strategies. The concept of a global information society is one of the most discussed and...
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