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“We are strongly committed to digital transformation, with considerable potential towards eradicating hunger poverty and bridge us towards sustainable development goals.” Dejan Jakovljevic
Focus on Impact
Digital technologies are now recognized as a game changer in agrifood systems. Their influence is being felt in many areas, including enhanced efficiency in the use of resources in food production, improved access to information and markets for farmers, new innovative financial services, the traceability of food, digitized e-voucher and cash-based transfer schemes, and the exploitation of geospatial and big data technologies to gain an ever more detailed and accurate understanding of the world around us.
FAO has recognized this transformational change and digital has been incorporated into the new strategic framework, most significantly in the Programme Priority Area for Digital Agriculture and on the ground with the flagship Digital Village Initiative. To align with this Organizational Priority, FAO has created a dedicated digital for impact stream, which has the mission of providing leadership, inspiration and support to accelerate the Organization’s drive to digitally transform agrifood systems. The digital for impact stream has two broad objectives. First, the delivery of high-quality impactful digital solutions for FAO. This includes major corporate platforms such as the HiH
“FAO has created a dedicated digital for
impact stream, which has the mission of providing leadership, inspiration and support to accelerate the Organization’s drive to digitally transform agrifood systems.”
Geospatial Platform, and the myriad of systems built by technical units and field offices. Critical focus was put in maximizing the Organisation’s use of data through supporting better standards, integration and the dashboarding of FAO datasets, as well as leading partnerships with external organizations that can help to extend those capabilities. The second objective of the digital for impact stream is to drive, guide, influence and inspire the adoption and use of digital tools and platforms, both internally and externally, towards the transformation of agrifood systems. Within FAO, this means including an awareness of core digital concepts and capabilities, and making digital capabilities and information widely available through relevant knowledge products. Outside FAO, it means working in collaboration with external organizations to enhance and amplify the impact of our digital products and to fully utilize FAO’s own digital achievements. Through these two objectives, digital for impact aims to position FAO as a leader in the digital transformation of the agrifood sector.
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