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In addition to unleashing unfathomable opportunities for sustainable development, the digital age has also highlighted the vitality of digital solutions allowing societies to function and businesses to continue in the times of COIVD-19 pandemic. Online services and remote working arrangements were among the few of the measures addressing the isolation, keeping people informed and engaged during the COVID-19 response and recovery.
The role of digital government in responding to the pandemic and enabling a more effective recovery has been instrumental in the context of resilient and sustainable development. Digital opportunities, however, come with inherent risks related to digital transformation, stressing the need to address emerging capacity requirements and challenges for digital public policies. Unleashing capacities and strengthening the resilience while mitigating the risks is not only the sole responsibility of governments. It requires the engagement of all stakeholders working as platform and the adoption of more holistic, inclusive approaches that bring together existing initiatives, United Nations entities, regional and sub-regional bodies and other relevant stakeholders that promote digital capacity-building to improve support for Governments and other stakeholders.
This virtual capacity building webinar aims to strengthen public institutional capacities in public policymaking for digital transformation in support of 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. It aims to strengthen the digital capacity of countries, especially the developing countries, and in particular the capacity of the LDCs, SIDS, LLDCs, and countries with transition economics, to participate in, and benefit from, the growing opportunities of digitalization while mitigating the risks.
The webinar will bring together a network of relevant government officials (CIOs or equivalents), and experts and decision-makers from private sector, civil society, academia in relevant digital fields, including digital government, digital economy, cybersecurity, science and technology and innovation (STI).
Participants will invite to share lessons learned, including both success and failure, in address emerging requirements and challenges for policy and decision-making in regard of digital transformation and to reflect on partnerships and digital governance capacity to accelerate recovery and to build a more resilient infrastructure and inclusive service delivery.
How to improve and strengthen the 2022 United Nations E-Government Survey will also be discussed during the webinar.
Registration
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Recordings
| Session 1: Digital Transformation during COVID-19 in public institutions | Password: f16?^Jsl |
| Session 2: Measuring national and local online public services provision | Password: f16?^Jsl |
| Session 3: Designing digital transformation for inclusion | Password: 7Vi+rJLc |
| Session 4: Post-COVID: The New "Digital" Normal | Password: 7Vi+rJLc |
Supporting Documents
Profile of Speakers and Moderators
Draft Agenda (Day 1)
| Time (EDT) | Monday, 14 December 2020 |
| 08:00 - 08:10 |
Opening Session Welcome Remarks: Mr. Elliott Harris, Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development, Chief Economist [Bio]
Moderator: Arpine Korekyan [Bio] |
| 08:10 - 10:00 |
Session 1: Digital Transformation during COVID-19 in public institutions
Moderator: Arpine Korekyan [Bio]
Short presentation by Vincenzo Aquaro, Chief of Digital Government Branch, DPIDG [Bio] [Presentation] Analytical findings in 2020 UN E-Government Survey and the Compendium
Discussants/Panelists: 1. Louis Meuleman, CEPA Member [Bio] [Presentation] 2. Africa: Mauritius • Mr. R. Hawabhay, Chief Technical Officer at the Ministry of information Technology, Communication and Innovation of Mauritius [Bio] [Presentation] 3. Asia (Singapore; Bangladesh; Kazakhstan) • Ms. Karen Kee, Government Technology Agency, Singapore [Bio] [Presentation] • Mr. Anir Chowdhoury, PMO, a2i, Bangladesh [Bio] • Ms Nazgul Bazhayeva, Director of Digital Transformation, MDDIA, Kazakhstan [Bio] [Presentation] 4. Europe (Estonia) • Ms Nele Leosk, Digital Ambassador, MoFA, Estonia [Bio] 5. GRULAC (Uruguay) • Mr. Hebert Paguas, Executive Director, AGESIC, Uruguay [Bio]
Open Discussion (30 minutes)
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| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Virtual Coffee Break |
| 10:15 - 11:30 |
Session 2: Measuring national and local online public services provision
Moderator: Deniz Susar [Bio]
Presenters/Panelists:
Open Discussion |
Draft Agenda (Day 2)
| Time (EDT) | Tuesday, 15 December 2020 |
| 08:00 - 09:30 |
Session 3: Designing Digital Transformation for Inclusion
Moderator: Wai Min Kwok, Senior Governance and Public Administration Officer, Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government, UN DESA [Bio]
Presenters/Panelists:
Open Discussion
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09:30 - 10:00 |
Virtual Coffee Break |
| 10:00 - 11:10 |
Session 4: Post-COVID: The New “Digital” Normal
Moderator: Vincenzo Aquaro [Bio]
Panelists (8 min each)
Open Discussion
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| 11:10–11:30 |
Closing Session ? Mr. Juwang Zhu, Director, DPIDG –Recommendations and the way forward
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*This webinar is a follow-up to the recommendations made during the Expert Group Meeting “Addressing Emerging Requirements and Challenges for Policy and Decision-Making in Digital Transformation in Developing Countries” convened by UN DESA/DPIDG in December 2019.
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