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The Digital Revolution: Fostering Inclusion and Resilient Growth

How are digital solutions enabling economic transformation in developing economies? Hear highlights from our recent event.
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The internet celebrates its 40th birthday, but some users are twice its age!

Considering the global demographic shifts we are seeing and how quickly our everyday lives are moving online, it’s crucial to equip seniors with the skills to connect in a safe and meaningful way.
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Digital Africa: Technological Transformation for Jobs

Evidence presented in this report demonstrates that internet availability increases jobs and reduced poverty in African countries.

Digital Policy Responses to COVID-19

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic the Digital Development team has been tracking digital responses globally to understand how governments, telecoms and the private sector have supported affordable and resilient digital infrastructure and services to help individuals, businesses and governments cope with the crisis. We invite you to navigate the database using our interactive dashboard and visualization tool.

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Turning Kenya into a Digital Nation

The Kenya Transparency and Communications Infrastructure Project (KTCIP) has significantly expanded the geographic coverage of broadband services while reducing prices. Concurrently, the project has leveraged improvements in connectivity to modernize the public sector, digitize public data, and support young tech entrepreneurs.

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Open Data

The World Bank provides free and open access to a comprehensive set of development data in countries around the globe, including China.
Jul 14, 2021

The Korean Trust Fund on ICT4D

The Korean Trust Fund on ICT4D, administered jointly by the ICT Sector Unit and infoDev, supports activities that serve as input in the development of lending operations in key domains of ICT for Development.
Partnership for Open Data

The World Bank has joined forces with Open Data Institute and Open Knowledge Foundation in a three-year project designed to help policy makers and citizens in developing countries understand and exploit the benefits of ...
ITU Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development

The Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development is an international, multi-stakeholder initiative to improve the availability and quality of ICT data and indicators, particularly in developing countries.