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UN/DESA Policy Brief #123: Sandboxing and Experimenting Digital Technologies for Sustainable Development

| English | Digital Government | Global | Policy Brief | UN DESA/DPIDG
From innovation hubs and policy experiments to regulatory sandboxes Digital technologies carry a promise to fast track sustainable development by supporting innovative, forwarding-looking policies and digital government solutions. There are, however, numerous risks and complexities of frontier technologies that come along with those opportunities, as well as policy and regulatory challenges such as those related to inclusion, competition,…

COVID-19: Embracing Digital Government During the Pandemic and Beyond

| English | Digital Government | Global | Policy Brief | UN DESA/DPIDG
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing governments and societies to turn toward digital technologies to respond to the crisis in the short-term, resolve socio-economic repercussions in the mid-term and reinvent existing policies and tools in the long-term. Navigating through these challenging times requires governments to adopt an open government approach and to use digital communication channels to provide reliable information on global and national…