The World Bank held its Global Digital Summit in Washington D.C. with the theme on ‘Digital Pathways for All’. The World Bank’s Vice President for Digital Transformation Sangbu Kim kicked things off, remarking that this year sees the organization mark a new phase in its work as it harnesses digital technology for innovation and impact. Kim referred to policy reforms, private sector mobilizations, financing, expanding digital markets, and building DPI. “Move faster and think bigger,” he said in his speech. In one of the first panels, Axel van Trotsenburg, senior managing director, World Bank, was joined by Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, minister delegate to the head of government in charge of digital transition and administrative reform, Morocco; and Doreen Bogdan-Martin, secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The Moroccan minister spoke about her country’s digital “transition” emphasizing that it takes time, that the progress her country has made in closing the connectivity gap has been the result of “proactive policies.” Morocco has made a concerted effort and made it a national priority to get people connected, so that now 90 percent are so, with thousands of rural areas receiving wireless Internet services. Seghrouchni said they’d “adopted diversified ways […]
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