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While Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers numerous potential benefits by creating efficiencies in systems and offloading rote tasks away from humans, these tools are not neutral. Machine learning can readily codify and reproduce patterns from large datasets, often at scale.

Strengthening the abilities, skills, and resources of individuals, organizations, and communities to effectively participate in and drive their own development.

Harnessing technology and digital innovations to safeguard children from digitally enabled harm.

Protecting information from damage, unauthorized use, modification, or exploitation.

Identifying and understanding the risks associated with data collection.

Interventions that use digital technology to improve data collection, management, and use.

Guidance that helps key stakeholders integrate good practices into digital programming.

The role that digital technology plays in increasing economic opportunity and efficiency, trade and competitiveness, and global economic integration.

Stakeholders, systems, and enabling environments that together empower people to use digital technology.

Access to finance and markets through digital tools.

Delivering government services, supporting citizen engagement, and organizing government operations using digital technologies.

Integrating digital approaches into health programming has become the norm in countries across the world with Ministries of Health and partner organizations working to institutionalize the digitization process. Rapid advances in architectures, standards and interoperability are opening new possibilities both for improving service delivery and utilizing the data digital systems produce.

Access for all to the internet and digital tools.

Digital technology for information dissemination and the provision of individual services.

Resources that make digital systems possible, like internet bandwidth, network coverage, and telecom market dynamics.

The resources that make digital systems possible and how individuals and organizations access and use these resources.

Skill sets sometimes referred to as computer literacy, ICT literacy, or media and information literacy.

Open-source software, open data, open artificial intelligence (AI) models, open standards and open content that adhere to privacy and other international and domestic applicable laws, standards and best practices, do no harm, and help attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

How digital technology intersects with government, civil society, and media.

Shifts in digital ecosystems that are potentially disruptive and understudied, including novel technological innovations, as well as novel uses of existing technology, and their impacts on communities. Examples include machine learning, artificial intelligence, data trusts, blockchain, quantum computing, gigwork, and others.

Geospatial data and analysis includes the collecting, combining, analyzing, and visualizing of multiple types of geospatial data.

Macro-level policies that facilitate access to or use of digital technologies.