Side Event: Human Centric Approach to Digital Transformation
Recording available - In the pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals, the persistent digital divide remains a significant challenge, hindering progress and impacting 2.6 billion lives globally. As societies and economies increasingly embrace digitalization, it is crucial to place humans at the heart of all aspects of digital development, including design processes and measures. In this context, a special session addressed human-centric digital transformation with the aim of enhancing understanding of human by design digital features. Some discussion points included ensuring accessibility, inclusiveness, human rights, protecting privacy and fostering a sense of community and collaboration.
Ongoing digitalization of public services across the UNECE region, such as: digitalization of government services; digitalization of education services; and digitalization of health services, provide a great opportunity to share experiences of diverse stakeholders very often confronted with a similar set of challenges and opportunities derived from the human-centric approach.
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations Group on Digital Transformation for Europe and Central Asia (UNDTG4ECA)
