Contributed by Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana The COVID-19 pandemic detonated a “digital big bang” that spurred people, governments and businesses to become “digital by default”; a sea of change that generated vast digital dividends. However, these benefits […]
The Asia-Pacific is the most digitally divided region of the world, and Southeast Asia is the most divided subregion. The Covid-19 pandemic detonated a “digital big bang” that spurred people, governments and businesses to become “digital by default”; a sea change that generated vast digital dividends. These benefits have not…
Asia and the Pacific is the most digitally divided region of the world, and Southeast Asia is the most divided subregion. The Covid-19 pandemic detonated a “digital big bang” that spurred people, governments and businesses to become “digital by default”, a sea change that generated vast digital dividends. These benefits have not been distributed equally, however.
The growing number and share of older persons in Asia and the Pacific represent success stories of declining fertility and increasing longevity; the result of advances in social and economic development. This demographic transition is taking place against the backdrop of the accelerating Fourth Industrial Revolution. But Covid-19, with its…