Session
Affordable Access
Digital, Media, and Information Literacy
Gender Digital Divide
Skills Building for Basic and Advanced Technologies (Meaningful Access)
Birds of a Feather - 60 Min
The Internet is the foundational infrastructure for all individual citizens for their social and economic lives, and the Internet access is a part of basic human rights that need to be guaranteed inclusively for everyone. In order to promote inclusivity of the Internet, it’s now the time to consider with all stakeholders how to take actions to realize the inclusive, secure, resilient, and green digital infrastructure. What role will the governments be expected to play? What would the implication of enhancing the digital infrastructure? What is the impact of the inclusiveness of digital infrastructure in the global society? How could we incentivize investment in digital infrastructure? How should Multilateral Development Banks contribute to achieving inclusive, secure, resilient, and green digital infrastructure through multi-stakeholders’ initiatives? The session will discuss how multi-stakeholders’ initiatives could lead efforts for promoting inclusive global coperation including developing countries, and how the governments can contribute to such initiatives.
By using the chat function of the online tool(Webex/Teams), we encourage online participants to interact smoothly. A moderator will deal with the questions raised by online participants, by asking to speakers on behalf of the online participants. Also, we plan to use LiveQ/Slido apps so that online participants can be participating actively.
World Bank
- Christine Zhenwei Qiang/Daisuke Hayashi, World Bank - Yoichi Iida, Government of Japan - Government officials from developed country [TBD] - Government officials from developing country (Asia Pacific or Africa) [TBD] - Tech representative from ICANN/ISOC etc. [TBD] - Civil society member or representative from underrepresented group (youth/women etc.) [TBD] - Global platformer or business community [TBD]
- Christine Zhenwei Qiang/Daisuke Hayashi, World Bank - Yoichi Iida, Government of Japan - Government officials from developed country [TBD] - Government officials from developing country (Asia Pacific or Africa) [TBD] - Tech representative from ICANN/ISOC etc. [TBD] - Civil society member or representative from underrepresented group (youth/women etc.) [TBD] - Global platformer or business community [TBD]
Christine Zhenwei Qiang, World Bank
World Bank staff
Christine Zhenwei Qiang, World Bank
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Targets: Digital technologies can connect people, improve our lives by creating jobs, develop our society and economy by fostering innovation and economic activities. With this regard, digital infrastructure should be enhanced in a quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient way, so that all the people can access affordably and equitably. For improving the digital environment, the international cooperation is one of keys for expanding digital infrastructure and its usage. Because we need the high technical knowledges of digital technologies, the lack of capacities on digital technologies is fatal. The international cooperation could include not only funding to constructing the digital network but also offering the capacity-building projects, through which people can take benefits of digital technologies sustainably and inclusively. Finally, because of its rapid increase of digital technologies, the GHG emission from the digital sectors is expected to grow in the near future. Taking the development of "greening" perspectives in the digital field into consideration will lead to the sustainable development.