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UN DESA Policy Brief No. 149: Promoting Youth Participation in Decision-Making and Public Service Delivery through Harnessing Digital Technologies
Key messagesHarnessing digital technologies can greatly support public institutions in promoting effective youth engagement and participation in policy processes. Digital technologies can play an instrumental role in youth engagement and…
| Policy Briefs | Digital Government
UN/DESA Policy Brief #123: Sandboxing and Experimenting Digital Technologies for Sustainable Development
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,…
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UN/DESA Policy Brief #92: Leveraging digital technologies for social inclusion
Leveraging digital technologies for social inclusion
Key messages
COVID-19 is accelerating the pace of digital transformation. In so doing, it is opening the opportunities for advancing social progress and fostering social inclusion, while…
| Policy Briefs | Digital Government | Open Government Data
UN/DESA Policy Brief #89: Strengthening Data Governance for Effective Use of Open Data and Big Data Analytics for Combating COVID-19
Strengthening Data Governance for Effective Use of Open Data and Big Data Analytics for Combating COVID-19
Summary
Governments are highly dependent on all data including official statistics, administrative data, open data and big data analytics…
| Compendia | Digital Government
Compendium of Digital Government Initiatives in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic 2020
This compendium, prepared by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), aims to capture emerging trends in digital responses of the United Nations…
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COVID-19: Embracing Digital Government During the Pandemic and Beyond
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…
| Compendia | Digital Government | Public Service Innovation
Compendium of Innovative Practices in Public Governance and Administration for Sustainable Development
This Compendium of Innovative Practices in Public Governance and Administration for Sustainable Development explores three shifts in government-society interactions that have had significant impact on public administration and public service . These…
| Compendia | Digital Government
Compendium of Innovative E-Government Practices, Volume V
The main objective of developing the UN/DESA Compendium of Innovative E-government Practices as an ongoing project is to create a venue for sharing and disseminating innovative e-government solutions, services and products developed and/or adopted…
| Compendia | Digital Government | Participation and Accountability
Compendium of ICT Applications on Electronnic Government, Volume 3: Mobile Applications on Citizen Engagement
This Compendium of ICT Applications on Electronic Government is a unique collection of current ICT applications being used directly by or in partnership with governments, governmental institutions and the private sector around the world to support…
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Compendium of Innovative E-Government Practices, Volume IV
In the face of increasing demands on governments to become more effective and efficient, coupled with a need to pay more attention to user needs, governments have been forced to rethink their approach to service delivery. Although many countries…