Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Information and Communication Technology for Prosperity

Because the challenges of the 21st century are daunting, the Sustainable Development Goals aim for change at the level of the planet, a veritable seismic shift. Information and communication technology provides the most powerful tool yet: properly deployed, directed, and extended, it can be a tool for common good and accelerate action on the global goals.

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Information and Communication Technology for the Planet

Because the challenges of the 21st century are daunting, the Sustainable Development Goals aim for change at the level of the planet, a veritable seismic shift. Information and communication technology provides the most powerful tool yet: properly deployed, directed, and extended, it can be a tool for common good and accelerate action on the global goals.

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Information and Communication Technology for People

Because the challenges of the 21st century are daunting, the Sustainable Development Goals aim for change at the level of the planet, a veritable seismic shift. Information and communication technology provides the most powerful tool yet: properly deployed, directed, and extended, it can be a tool for common good and accelerate action on the global goals.

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Information and Communication Technology for Peace and Partnership

Because the challenges of the 21st century are daunting, the Sustainable Development Goals aim for change at the level of the planet, a veritable seismic shift. Information and communication technology provides the most powerful tool yet: properly deployed, directed, and extended, it can be a tool for common good and accelerate action on the global goals.

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How Information and Communication Technology Can Fast-Track Development

Technology is never a solution per se: informed by needs, ICT must deliver context-appropriate solutions framed by infrastructure—first and foremost, requisite institutional structure and capacity, a reform-oriented mindset, necessary skills and expertise, appropriate business models, and enabling policy and regulatory environments. Once these prerequisites are at hand or in train, there is great scope for the deployment of e-services and applications across the sectors and themes that development assistance aims to impact.

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