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How do countries rate on digital progress?

January 22, 2016

Technology alone will not
solve development challenges

WHAT ELSE IS NEEDED?
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HOW DO COUNTRIES RATE ON DIGITAL PROGRESS?
What do Emerging, Transitioning, and Transforming mean?
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EMERGING Countries with low Internet use Policies
  • • Remove high duties on ICT capital imports. Improve physical infrastructure
  • • Promote digital literacy and basic cognitive and socio-emotional skills
  • • Use the internet in the public sector to provide information and monitor service providers
TRANSITIONING Countries transitioning toward universal Internet use Policies
  • • Build effective competition regulation and enforcement capacity
  • • Teach advanced cognitive and socio-emotional skills that complement technology
  • • Move toward effective e-government system
TRANSFORMING Countries transforming into digital societies Policies
  • • Regulate platform competition and privacy
  • • Improve ICT and STEM skills, and lifelong learning
  • • Move toward ubiquitous e-government services and participatory policymaking
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