Session Details
Sunday, 17 September 2023, 15:00 - 16:30
United Nations Headquarters, ECOSOC Chamber
This session brings together global leadership to demonstrate and consider the many possibilities that DPI can offer to accelerate progress across all 17 SDGs. By 2030, the DPI High Impact Initiative aims to catalyze the collective action necessary to unlock targeted support for DPI implementation and strengthening in 100 countries by ensuring that DPI is safe, accessible, affordable, green, financed, and future-ready. Accordingly, this HII has identified and prioritized these 5 key pillars that combine global initiatives with commitments from individual countries and organizations in support of this objective.
Point/s of contact | Keyzom Ngodup (kezyom.ngodup@undp.org); Ursula Wynhoven (ursula.wynhoven@itu.int)
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Background
DPI can unlock innovation and value at scale, strengthen local digital ecosystems, and provide countries with agency over their digital journeys.?It offers the speed, scale and reach that can create exponential societal outcomes to deliver progress on the SDGs. While the benefits of DPI are clear, DPI success has been limited by the lack of people-centric governance and safeguards, inaccessibility for last-mile communities, high barriers to adoption, and insufficient funding. Additionally, the full potential of DPI has yet to be explored, such as opportunities to contribute to the green transition.
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