Doreen Bogdan-Martin and Kate Wilson have said digital investments need a whole-of-government approach to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Doreen and Kate made this known in the foreword of the newly launched SDG Digital Investment Framework paper.
According to them, the UN SDGs, set to be achieved by 2030, are not currently on track.
They noted that progress can be accelerated, however, through the transformational potential of digital technologies.
“To date, in spite of significant efforts and investments in digital technologies and applications for development, amounting to billions of dollars worldwide, progress has been hampered by a lack of coordination, and in particular from not taking a whole-of-government approach to digital investments,” the foreword read.
Doreen is Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau and Kate is CEO of the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL).
The SDG Digital Investment Framework is intended to be the start of a new dialogue with the digital investment community, building on the global Call to Action presented at the UN General Assembly in 2018.
It encourages a whole-of-government approach and sets out to help governments address key strategic investment questions and choose effective, scalable technology-based solutions – and in particular help them to consider using ICT Building Blocks for economies of scale and maximum return on investment.
The SDG Digital Investment Framework is the first iteration of a process which aims to expand to include all of the main development priorities encompassed by the SDGs.
In this first edition, it looks at some of the main development sectors such as agriculture, education and healthcare, and how technology can not just play an important part, but also be applied in a cross-sectoral fashion, in addressing the issues.