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Digital capabilities can help to meet future demand for safe and nutritious food, better manage natural resources and contribute to high-quality growth in productivity and in the economy.
Digital capabilities can help to meet future demand for safe and nutritious food, better manage natural resources and contribute to high-quality growth in productivity and in the economy. They are already the driving force behind the profound transformation of our agrifood systems and the emergence of a new vision of agriculture. With this vision, digital has been fully embedded in FAO's work: internally as part of the corporate transformation and by introducing new modern ways of working through, and thanks to, the digital workplace; and as part of FAO’s growing leadership role in the digital transformation of agrifood systems, facilitated by the new Programme Priority Area (PPA) for Digital Agriculture, now recognized in the FAO Strategic Framework, as well as by key initiatives that have been scaled up, such as the 1 000 Digital Villages Initiative, Hand-In-Hand (HiH), the digital service portfolio, and with more to come, all supported by the newly introduced digital for impact stream. Digital for impact brings us two main accelerators: the delivery of high-quality impactful digital solutions for FAO and stakeholders and the deep aim to drive, guide, influence and inspire the adoption and use of digital tools and platforms, both internally and externally, towards the broad transformation of agrifood systems.
In 2022, we scaled up efforts in this direction, and these are being recognized internationally, bringing us, for example the prestigious Geospatial World Forum (GWF) 2022 award for the HiH Geospatial Platform as the best collaborative platform towards data-driven agriculture, and more is yet to come. Underpinning these success stories, significant efforts have been made towards greater inclusion for all: in terms of gender, firstly, with the launch of the new campaign "Girls in ICT", aimed at promoting the role of girls and women in the technology sector, and secondly, to enhance digital accessibility overall as several areas ‑ including the HiH Geospatial Platform website, in order to meet World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) accessibility standards for web development and web content, ensuring that FAO platforms can also be accessed by visually impaired users, and ultimately increasing their usability and accessibility. To conclude, 2022 was another exceptional and promising year of digital transformation in action, further accelerated by the strong momentum and with strong organizational support. I am looking forward to continuing the digital journey in 2023 and beyond.
Dejan Jakovljevic
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