South Asia’s Digital Opportunity : Accelerating Growth, Transforming Lives
The report presents both the opportunities of and the bottlenecks for furthering the digital agenda. It emphasizes that the first step is to get the basics right. This includes enabling access to and adoption of high-quality affordable broadband, i...
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099340103292239929/P172300097cd82032089610283e77293d89 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37230 |
| Summary: | The report presents both the
opportunities of and the bottlenecks for furthering the
digital agenda. It emphasizes that the first step is to get
the basics right. This includes enabling access to and
adoption of high-quality affordable broadband, initiating a
paradigm shift in building digital public platforms and
accelerating digital financial services. Part of this
includes integrating digital ID, digital payments, and data
sharing platforms so they can become ‘digital stacks’ that
allow service providers to build and innovate their own
platforms and systems on top. Supporting digital businesses,
fostering digital skills, and creating the necessary trust
environment are also critical to the digital agenda.
Further, a successful digital agenda at country levels would
benefit from regional integration that entails cross-border
connectivity, data infrastructure, and payment systems. |
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