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This will require, first and foremost, the adoption of new technologies, and even the provision of “digital public goods” like fast and reliable broadband Internet and digital payment solutions.
Although Internet connectivity and digital devices have become ubiquitous in the MENA region, they are used for accessing social media, rather than for launching new enterprises or employing people.
This will require not just the provision of digital public goods, but also an overhaul of the regulatory system, with Kenya – where a light-touch regulatory approach facilitated the rapid growth of the peer-to-peer payment system M-Pesa – offering a useful model.
Returns to digital capital tend to exceed the returns to physical capital and reflect power-law distributions, with an outsize share of returns again accruing to relatively few actors.
When a country censors online content on a massive scale or uses digital backdoors to monitor its citizens, the entire Internet feels the impact.
Harnessing technology will also require sensible economic reforms, better infrastructure, more capable institutions, and strategies to deliver digital solutions to marginalized populations.
That is why governments, donors, and the private sector must work together to create business and pricing models that allow for cost recovery while still providing an adequate level of digital service to the poorest consumers.
The digital divide mirrors larger patterns of social discrimination, especially for women.
Wherever women live, they are about 40% less likely than men to have ever used the Internet, which suggests that social inequities are also driving disparities in digital access.
When women have access to the full range of digital services – from mobile banking to telemedicine – they are generally wealthier, healthier, and better educated.
As policymakers in both developed and developing countries make decisions and investments that will shape the landscape in which technological change unfolds, it is gratifying to see countries engaging in meaningful dialogue about their digital futures.
Just as the Industrial Revolution produced far-reaching advances in medicine, the ongoing digital revolution will allow us to improve health care in ways that were hard to imagine just a few years ago.
We need only seize the opportunities offered by the Internet, mobile devices, and other digital technologies, which are already expanding health-care access and improving quality of care in hard-to-reach communities.
One of our partners, Last Mile Health, has created an entire digital platform specifically tailored for community health education.
Needless to say, digital technologies will also be driving the next wave of life-changing therapies.
Across the digital landscape, however, it is broadband that will deliver some of the most significant improvements of all.
Uganda is a cautionary tale: In 2012, so many conflicting digital health projects were in play that the government was forced to declare a temporary moratorium on all of them.
The goal is to offer pragmatic advice to policymakers and other stakeholders to help them reimagine the way digital health can address NCDs.
Such collaboration is already happening in places like the Philippines, where a National eHealth Steering Committee oversees a suite of digital-health initiatives, thus creating an ideal environment for digital innovation.
Still, digital technology is not a panacea, so we must choose our priorities wisely.
Outcome-oriented digital technologies can ensure that this changes.
Training curricula for health-care providers and administrators should thus include instruction in statistics, data management, and analytics so that providers can keep up with digital advances.
A final priority is to bear in mind that digital technology is valuable only if it is being used to improve how systems function.
Fortunately, when applied properly, digital technology can help automate the process so that providers are freed up to do what they do best.
But success will depend on whether we can harness the digital revolution for the benefit of all.
And policymakers must recognize the risk of perpetuating a digital divide that favors those who are already advantaged.
Once you see your own digital reflection, will you improve your behavior?
According to Charnock, “People believe that the digital world largely masks their preferences for different individuals.
The potential of technology-enabled solutions must be harnessed, supported by a stronger foundation of digital literacy.
China’s working-age consumers, as children of the digital age, are driving innovation by interacting directly with companies to help reinvent products and services.
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