HOW DIGITAL CONNECTIVITY IN THE PACIFIC CAN BE IMPLEMENTED THROUGH A ‘PACIFIC LENS’ (A PRIORITY POST COVID-19)

A research project in conjunction with the Council for International Development and the University of Otago MBA Programme. Everyone needs connection, to learn, to grow and to challenge their status quo. This is the challenge and the core thesis of the research report. Covid-19 may have changed the way this currently happens, though there are alternatives worth considering.

The measures put in place globally to stop the spread of Covid-19 has challenged accepted norms in the aid, development and humanitarian sector when it comes to programme design and programme delivery. As a result, many of the international non-government organisations (iNGOs) that are members of the Council for International Development (CID) are looking to renew their approaches to programme delivery and in some cases their operating model to continue to provide needed assistance to the communities they serve.

An avenue open to these organisations is digital access. While action on digital access is largely missing from recent agendas, the Lancet Covid-19 Commission statement to the 75th UN General Assembly notes that achieving universal digital access as a key to inclusion.

Read on here… https://www.cid.org.nz/connect/news/digital-access-across-cultures

Or, view the CID Talk here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy27VOC_SJQ