There’s a palpable combine of pleasure and warning surrounding this 12 months’s assembly in Davos. You don’t must spend an excessive amount of time reflecting on at this time’s headlines to see that the speedy tempo of digital transformation deserves a worldwide dialogue – on the highest ranges – on how actual individuals expertise technological change.
Technology is a transformative pressure for good. But there are dangers.
Technology is remodeling our lives, altering the way in which we study, work, work together with others and get entry to all sorts of providers. But amid the myriad advantages of digital applied sciences, there are potential dangers to well-being, the place these missing digital literacy—a mix of technical, emotional, and social abilities—fall behind. I’m inspired by the conversations I’ve had with leaders and policymakers assembled in Davos this week. It’s clear to me there’s an actual sense of shared duty regarding the stakes concerned on this speedy reconfiguration of how society capabilities.
A rising tide lifts all ships.
Connecting hundreds of thousands to the digital financial system is a activity that may’t be achieved alone. Technological advantages similar to improved entry to schooling and well being info are met with challenges similar to weakened social connectedness, persistent digital divides, the unfold of disinformation and growing threats to cybersecurity. We take the connection between the dangers and advantages of expertise significantly. Our new partnership with the OECD Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE) reveals how working collectively in new methods to prioritize our collective well-being may help ship a wholesome, affluent, and protected digital life.
Joining forces with the OECD to check well-being within the digital age
Grounded within the OECD Well-being Framework and aligned to Cisco’s CDA pillars, our joint initiative will current current and rising OECD knowledge and look at the complicated nature of digital transformation through the Digital Well-Being Hub.
The hub may also function an interactive platform to collect new statistics and other people’s insights on digital well-being, together with the affect of the digital divide and inequalities within the uptake and use of digital applied sciences.
The OECD has already carried out loads of groundwork
The OECD WISE Centre Director Romina Boarini has already established the start line for our partnership. She notes, “The OECD has a long tradition of work supporting policy makers, helping them better understand digital transformation and develop appropriate policies to help shape a positive digital future. Our initial report, ‘How’s Life in the Digital Age,’ highlighted the benefits and challenges of digital transformation, from enhanced access and productivity to issues like the digital divide and personal security threats in people’s everyday life and workplace. Our partnership with Cisco helps us take the next step in broadening what we know about the interplay between technology and life to enrich our understanding of well-being in the digital realm.”
“The OECD has a long tradition of work supporting
policy makers, helping them better understand digital
transformation and develop appropriate policies
to help shape a positive digital future.”
—Romina Boarini, OECD WISE Centre Director
Cisco affords connections and expertise to the partnership
Our purpose is to attach extra individuals to the digital financial system and foster digital inclusion throughout the globe. We‘re pushed by the idea that everybody, all over the place, no matter the place they arrive from or the place they’re at this time, deserve the chance to be related to the digital financial system, now and in years to come back.
From my place as Chief Innovation Officer, I see with my very own eyes, the way in which Cisco works with governments, business, schooling establishments, non-profits, and group leaders. Decades of expertise by way of our Country Digital Acceleration and Networking Academy packages uniquely equips us to associate with organizations and communities to attach the unconnected and construct a extra inclusive future for all. This partnership faucets into Cisco and OECD’s experience in understanding and mitigating dangers, unlocking the worth of digitization to finally enhance digital well-being, energy protected inclusive communities and resilient financial improvement. We are excited for the work forward.
The 12 months forward
The partnership will launch its ‘Digital Well-being Hub’ within the second half of 2024. In November, we’ll take part within the OECD’s World Forum on Well-being the place we’ll be a part of conversations addressing the worth of well-being approaches for enhancing data, efficiency and cooperation throughout the general public, non-public and civil sectors in a context of societal change.
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