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Fostering Sustainable and Inclusive Climate Solutions Through Digital Technologies

Innovative businesses are key to sustainable development. This research highlights three companies: Husk Power Systems (sustainable energy), Nexsis (solar panels for essential services), and ThredUp (secondhand e-commerce). Insights emphasize the value of pay-as-you-go models, digital tech’s role in sustainability, women’s empowerment via regenerative tech, the need for government support in renewables, and maintaining consumer demand.

May 23, 2023

Harnessing Digital Technologies for Education and Upskilling

In this second edition of the case compendium, we cover three
enterprises working in the education technology (ed-tech)
and upskilling industry in three distinct emerging markets.

April 6, 2023

Digital Inclusion vs. Innovation Momentum: Is There a Tradeoff? And Must Economies Choose?

IDEA 2030’s report studies the link between digital inclusion and innovation. Key insight: As more join the digital economy, value creation focuses on affluent users, widening digital disparities. Policy interventions are needed for inclusive innovation.

February 22, 2023

Global Digital Inclusion: Progress to Parity Scorecard 2022

The under-representation of women in high-paying STEM roles is a vexing issue that exposes a systemic inertia across the industry.

September 11, 2022

DataGovHub Paradigm for a Comprehensive Approach to Data Governance

Policymakers face the challenge of governing diverse data effectively to build trust in a flexible, ethical, and accountable manner.

June 28, 2022

Global Digital Inclusion: Progress to Parity Scorecard 2020

We present Progress to Digital Parity—an interactive scorecard that tracks the journey towards realizing the goal of a digital economy for everyone, everywhere.

March 25, 2022

Beyond Access Case Studies

The needs of the global sustainable development agenda are both broad and urgent, and innovation models are central to addressing them in a timely, efficient, and scalable manner, from promoting inclusive growth and ensuring the longevity of natural resources to addressing issues across the state of the human condition.

March 17, 2022

Unlocking Value Through Virtualized Healthcare: Which Countries are Ready?

Global healthcare digitization varies wildly. Our study in 46 countries identifies virtualized healthcare opportunities, enabling lagging nations to leapfrog with digital tools for quality care.

July 15, 2021

Digital Intelligence Index: 2020

An interactive research report that indexes trust in the digital economy and its evolution across 90 economies during the COVID-19 pandemic. This report features a collaborative research platform that provides data and evidence-driven actionable insights to leaders in government, business and technology.

December 1, 2020

Global COVID Response

A Social Distance Readiness analysis of 42 countries measuring the robustness of their digital platforms; resilience of internet infrastructure to traffic surges; proliferation of digital payments options and percentage of workforce able to telecommute.

April 12, 2020

Ease of Doing Digital Business 2019

If the yardstick of effectiveness of any scorecard or ranking were tangible efforts, by those graded, to “improve bad ratings or maintain good ones,” few come even remotely close to the World Bank’s annual Doing Business survey.

November 1, 2019

Tag: Middle East and North Africa

Fostering Sustainable and Inclusive Climate Solutions Through Digital Technologies

Harnessing Digital Technologies for Education and Upskilling

Digital Inclusion vs. Innovation Momentum: Is There a Tradeoff? And Must Economies Choose?

Global Digital Inclusion: Progress to Parity Scorecard 2022

DataGovHub Paradigm for a Comprehensive Approach to Data Governance

Global Digital Inclusion: Progress to Parity Scorecard 2020

Beyond Access Case Studies

Unlocking Value Through Virtualized Healthcare: Which Countries are Ready?

Digital Intelligence Index: 2020

Global COVID Response

Ease of Doing Digital Business 2019

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