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FEATURED SAMENA TRENDS

Accelerating Digital Transformation through the

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Alliance

As the digital world continues to become The Alliance will support the achievement of the ITU-D
more volatile, uncertain, complex, and
ambiguous (VUCA), the Innovation and Priority 'Digital Transformation' outcomes, which include
Entrepreneurship Alliance for Digital strengthened capacity of ITU membership to integrate
Development aims to build local enablers
and strengthen the engagement of the telecommunication/ICT innovation and digitalization in
private sector and academia in the critical their national development agendas, and enhanced human
work of the BDT. This new initiative by and institutional capacity to foster digital transformation.
the BDT Director will empower ITU-D
membership to unlock their digital potential, The Alliance is aligned with several ITU resolutions,
build local capabilities in innovation and initiatives, and strategic plans.
entrepreneurship, and accelerate their
ecosystems' impact on cross-cutting transformation. The Alliance is aligned enable countries to be ahead of the curve
sectors for an inclusive and sustainable with several ITU resolutions, initiatives, and and harness technological know-how into
society. strategic plans. global goods through open innovation and
multistakeholder mechanisms.
The Alliance will support the achievement To accelerate countries' journey towards
of the ITU-D Priority 'Digital Transformation' an innovation-driven digital economy, The Alliance will operationalize the needed
outcomes, which include strengthened the Alliance will fast-track five strategic capabilities through three main vehicles:
capacity of ITU membership to integrate objectives: Open technology innovation, A Digital Transformation Lab, a Network
telecommunication/ICT innovation and Entrepreneurship and SMEs growth, of Acceleration Centers, and a Digital
digitalization in their national development Trends research readiness, Policy Innovation Board. The Lab will support the
agendas, and enhanced human and experimentation, and Ecosystem initiatives design and implementation of the network
institutional capacity to foster digital acceleration. These objectives aim to of centers and provide technical assistance

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