1.1. Digital for impact: digital capabilities as accelerators to support the transformation of agrifood systems 41
“This membership marks a step further in FAO’s commitment to unleashing the potential of digital agriculture by ensuring inclusivity and narrowing the digital divide between different countries and regions through affordable access to digital technologies, digital literacy and digital public goods.”
Máximo Torero
The DPGA is a multistakeholder initiative with a mission to accelerate the attainment of the SDGs in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development and use of and investment in digital public goods. This will include FAO’s efforts to positively influence the food and agriculture ecosystem towards creating and using digital public goods, identify existing and potential digital public goods within the FDP, and create a FAO digital public goods framework.
FAO has engaged in two communities of practice run by the DPGA on the topics of climate services and digital financial inclusion, and collaborated to ensure that FAO's digital products are digital public goods. Additionally, FAO will co-chair a new community of practice focused on food security, which will produce a knowledge product to guide countries and digital practitioners. It will allow the Organization to benefit from the DPGA’s core activities. These include stewarding the Digital Public Goods Standard, used to create alignment and understanding of digital public goods, and the Digital Public Goods Registry, a place where digital public goods can more easily be discovered, including FAO’s own digital public goods.
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Following this, FAO attended the DPGA’s first inaugural members meeting, held in Oslo, Norway, in June 2022. The 3- day event included multiple workshops on Digital Public Infrastructure and related topics, as well as the launch of the new Digital Public Goods Charter. The members-only meeting consisted of a series of short presentations/updates by each of the dozen or so members, including FAO.
Why?
This engagement is an important contribution to the UN Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation. Cooperation between FAO and the DPGA will contribute to the achievement of some SDGs, notably SDG 1 (no poverty), SDG 9 (industry, innovation and infrastructure) and SDG 17 (partnerships to achieve the goals).
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