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Develop Impact - Issue 127
It's Monday!
I hope you're having a great start to the week.
This week, our team at Glean Asia continues to work on various e-learning projects for communities across Cambodia. Using Moodle and our human-centered approach, we are creating a e-learning systems that will best benefit the targeted communities. I’m especially proud of our work on a mobile app that is targeting older Android devices, the types of devices you find with most rural learners. If you'd like to learn more about our e-learning work, please send me an email at: jesse@glean.net.
This week, I have selected five articles I think are worth reading. Hopefully, you'll find some inspiration or useful information for your current or next project!
Feel free to share anything with this community. We want to give this community an opportunity to learn, share, and grow!
Have a great week!
Jesse
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Digital Transformation Opportunities and Challenges in the Lower Mekong Region
The report examines the opportunities and challenges of the Lower Mekong Region's pursuit of society-wide digital transformation.
The lower Mekong Region continues to struggle to achieve sufficient levels of digital access, basic literacy, and skill levels for a large-scale digital transformation to be effective and sustainable.
Many challenges face the Lower Mekong Region on its path to digital transformation, including the COVID-19 pandemic, international supply chain issues, worldwide economic instability, geopolitical influences, and the growing divide between digital democracy and digital authoritarianism.
Major Asian countries saved US$34 billion through solar deployment in H1 2022
Seven key Asian countries saw their fossil fuel costs mitigated by solar generation in the first half of 2022, according to research from Ember, CREA, and IEEFA.
Asian countries have shown that rapid solar deployment is possible and that solar dominance will come much sooner than expected. To realize this goal, grid stabilization, innovative policy reforms to unlock investments, and collaboration with the private sector is required.
Here's how the tech sector can win public trust in Southeast Asia
New research shows that trust in digital financial services is most strongly related to the perception of the service provider's integrity. Technology itself did not significantly predict trust in any of the Southeast Asian countries.
SGTech, the trade association for Singapore's tech industry, has defined digital trust as the confidence participants have in the digital ecosystem to interact securely, transparently, accountable, and frictionlessly.
For digital identification technology to win public trust, public and private sector initiatives need to collaborate and harmonize their systems. In addition, digital ID systems should be inclusive, especially when they are needed for public services such as welfare programs, assistance grants, and health care.
COP27 climate talks: what succeeded, what failed and what’s next
The 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference ended last Sunday with researchers frustrated at the lack of ambition to phase out fossil fuels. However, delegates from low- and middle-income countries agreed on a new 'loss and damage' fund to help them cope with climate change impacts.
The talk also covered the fight for finance, the energy crisis impact, and the food focus.
Although the meeting has value, the core purpose of the meeting — to push world leaders to commit to stronger action and hold them accountable — has been lost, says Sunita Narain, director-general of the Centre for Science and Environment, an environmental research organization in New Delhi.
WB upgrades Kingdom to Grade B in gov’t tech index
Cambodia's level of development of government technology has been upgraded by the World Bank from Grade C to Grade B for 2022.
Cambodia has received 0.584 points for GTMI(GovTech Maturity Index), which is better than the regional and global average points, according to the latest data of WB. The GTMI was developed as part of the GovTech Initiative to introduce a measure of maturity in the sector and to assist practitioners in the design of new digital transformation projects.