Heartfelt congratulations & best wishes to the 'Code Black' team for securing the gold medal at the 'World Science, Environment, and Engineering Competition (WSEEC) 2024'. 🇧🇩🌏 #SmartBangladesh2041 #ZeroDigitalDivide #IamtheSolution #WSEEC2024 #Competition #CodeBlack #Robotics

Climate change causing havoc w Pacific Island futures, driving massive youth out migration. Disruptions to cultural and spatial identity for island communities. Must prioritize at #SIDS4. Refers UNDP in Asia and the Pacific research bit.ly/44Ze6aX

Infrastructure remains an issue in several parts of the world. However, broadband policies must consider the other barriers to universal, meaningful connectivity beyond just infrastructure. Here’s how. gdip.ngo/3V65KuL

We are beating the drum about AI as a silver bullet; our best shot at closing the digital divide. But are we really considering the true ramifications of what we are getting people into? Without careful governance, the rapid integration of AI could lead us down a precarious

20 years ago, world leaders came together to set a global framework for #digitalcooperation, which still remains the only intergovernmental agreement on #ICTs & digital. Partner2Connect is here at #WSIS as an exciting example of ambitious multistakeholder #cooperation.

Checking out the site of the UN Futures Lab un-futureslab.org

Presenting '𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐡', Md Mamunur Rashid Bhuiyan, CEO of Agency to Innovate & PD of a2i, addressed the Inter-Regional Conference in Almaty, #Kazakhstan #SmartBangladesh2041 #ZeroDigitalDivide #DigitalTransformation

At the #AI4Good Summit in Geneva, UN Development and UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 announced their new collaboration on #AI Assessments - joining forces to bring their complementary tools & methodologies to better support governments in leveraging #AI safely & responsibly, to achieve the #SDGs!

A book can be accessible since it's birth. To know more, join us for an insightful event on ‘Right to Read: Dialogue on Born Accessibility’. 📍𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 5 June 2024 🕒𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: 3:00 PM BST 🔗𝐙𝐨𝐨𝐦: zoom.us/j/93622782034?… Meeting ID: 936 2278 2034 Pw: a2i #SmartBangladesh2041

📊 From June 2-4, 2024, a2i conducted 'Training on Problem Solution through Data Leadership' for #BangladeshHandloomBoard officials, emphasizing data-driven decision-making & dashboard management. #SmartBangladesh2041 #DataLeadership #ZeroDigitalDivide #GlobalDigitalCompact

📈Use #data to protect the environment this #WorldEnvironmentDay! Our bamboo timber & lightning dashboards, a2i created with #BFRI & #DDM offer insights for action 👇 🔗dataleadership.sdg.gov.bd/superset/dashb… 🔗 dataleadership.sdg.gov.bd/superset/dashb… #SmartBangladesh2041 #ZeroDigitalDivide #DataLeadership

Bangladesh wining the elections at ECOSOC, ILO governing council and Chairmanship of the United Nations GA 2nd committee goes on to reestablish her acceptability in international forums and commitment to UN charter for greater good. Many congratulations Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In the age of #AI, strong data governance is essential. At UN Development we've been thinking about how to make the AI promise real and how we can support countries build robust frameworks for the management of data. Please get in touch if we can collaborate! bit.ly/4aZlfJY

Alongside UN Innovation Network & Int’l Telecommunication Union, we at UN Development are thrilled to have launched the United Nations Digital Community this week with changemakers from 100+ countries! Stay tuned for upcoming community events and opportunities. Join the #UNDC bit.ly/JoinUNDC

As Bangladesh actively promotes DPI and Open Source for Smart Bangladesh, it was enlightening to hear from Mozilla Foundation Chair Mitchell Baker at the Open Source in the Global South session during the OSPOs for Good 2024 symposium at the UNHQ about how collaboration in the

Potential of open source to revolutionize critical infrastructures, around the world is undeniable. Today, open source is creating essential building blocks for problem-solving, from community health initiatives to scalable digital public infrastructures. These aren't just

Rethinking GovTech: From Systems to People, from Silos to Institutions Going from analog to digital helps everyone. It enables. It empowers. It includes. Or, is that only a promise, only a rhetoric, not to be taken seriously by the planners and implementers of public digital