This paper examines digital financial services and products—powered by financial technology—as well as low technology solutions that can boost digital financial inclusion for women in remote and rural areas.
This report explores policy options to facilitate Indonesia’s technological transformation and unlock its economic growth potential.
New technologies present governments with opportunities and challenges in a range of key policy areas such as employment, competitiveness, equity, and sustainability. A consensus is that the national government can play an important role in stimulating innovation.
Engaging young people in the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14, Life Below Water, is more essential than ever. Join our webinar to mobilize youth representatives, share information and brainstorm ideas on how to strengthen the momentum for ocean action among young people during the preparatory process of the 2020 UN Ocean Conference.
Partners for Review is a transnational multi-stakeholder network for government representatives and stakeholders from civil society, the private sector, academia and other non-state actors involved in the national review and monitoring process towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Partners for Review is a transnational multi-stakeholder network for government representatives and stakeholders from civil society, the private sector, academia and other non-state actors involved in the national review and monitoring process towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Society is experiencing extreme climate events and rapid biodiversity loss, alongside a rise in fake news and rapid technological innovation. How can we connect the dots between today’s biggest societal issues, the state of the planet now, and the future we are shaping? Our Future on Earth 2020 is a report synthesizing the latest Earth science alongside current events.
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have played a key role in Republic of Korea's response to fight COVID-19. Cellular broadcasting services, mobile apps & devices, telemedicine, artificial intelligence, and open government data are some of the digital solutions that helped the government in disseminating key emergency information; enforcing social distancing; administering testing; tracing and treating infections. Digital technologies have emerged as the Republic of Korea’s effective tools to combat the spread and impact of COVID-19.
This course explores approaches to cross-organizational and cross-sectoral policy coherence on the national, regional and international levels, with a view to equipping participants with a sound understanding of why policy coherence is important for achieving sustainable development, what coherent policy making entails, and what are the specific tools, mechanisms and approaches that can be employed to foster policy coherence. Inputs by high-level speakers from the UN System, the OECD as well as think tanks and academia will complement the course.