E-resilience Monitoring Dashboard
E-resilience Monitoring Dashboard
Understanding E-Resilience for Pandemic Recovery in Asia and the Pacific
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation and underscored its importance for mitigating the economic slowdown, sustaining wellbeing, and speeding up recovery. Governments, smart policymaking, as well as regional cooperation play an essential role in helping to both enable digital transformation to occur and in facilitating access to technology.
WSIS Forum 2020 “WSIS UN Regional Commissions Meeting Round Table” UN Regional Commissions
While COVID-19 lockdowns have turned our physical lives into a virtual reality almost overnight, digital connectivity has taken on a compelling new meaning in the region. For one, countries that have managed to put digital technologies to effective use have shown signs of better combating cluster outbreaks and gaining the public’s trust by sharing credible information in a timely way.
The global launch of the 2020 UN E-Government Survey
10 July 2020, Friday, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT
Keynote by:
Mr. Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General (USG) for Economic and Social Affairs
Joined by experts:
• Mr. Vincenzo Aquaro, Chief of Digital Government Branch, Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Measuring the Digital Divide in the Asia-Pacific Region for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
This report’s findings suggest that the best way to measure the digital divide in the Asia-Pacific region is to use a multidimensional approach that captures the economic, social, political and cultural complexities of the digital divide, and reflects on their impact on individuals, businesses and governments.