Information and communication technology

The Evolution of Benazir Income Support Programme's Delivery Systems: Leveraging Digital Technology for Adaptive Social Protection in Pakistan

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 03/25/2024 - 15:51

worldbank.org (29.02.2024) This report documents the progress that Pakistanhas made so far in improving its systems fordelivering social protection to its people. Thegovernment has increasingly relied on dataand technology to increase the efficiency andeffectiveness of the program.

Regions / Country
pakistan
Topics
Information and communication technology
Service delivery
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Health at a Glance 2023 - OECD

Submitted by pmassetti on Thu, 11/09/2023 - 16:28

oecd.org (2023) Health at a Glance provides a comprehensive set of indicators on population health and health system performance across OECD members and key emerging economies. This edition also has a special focus on digital health, which measures the digital readiness of OECD countries’ health systems, and outlines what countries need to do accelerate the digital health transformation.

Global challenges
Topics
Health
Information and communication technology
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Inclusive Digital Health. Policy Overview

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 11/06/2023 - 16:01

paho.org (02.11.2023) One of the eight guiding principles for the digital transformation of the health sector promoted by the Pan American Health Organization is inclusive digital health. This policy brief presents key concepts, recommended lines of action and indicators for monitoring with the aim of advancing inclusive digital health.

Global challenges
Topics
Health
Information and communication technology
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Pathways to Universal Digital Access to Inclusive Healthcare in the G20

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 10/27/2023 - 15:55

ThinkTwenty (T20) India 2023 - Official Engagement Group of G20(2023)  Universal digital access to inclusive healthcare is a part of the G20’s vision to achieve Sustainable Development Goal-3 (good health and well-being), but the pathways to accomplish this are unspecified. India and other countries are in the process of extensively digitalising healthcare. This policy brief provides a roadmap to integrate the digital healthcare infrastructure for affordable, equitable, and universal access. The roadmap is presented using an ontology of universal digital access to inclusive healthcare.

Regions / Country
india
Global challenges
Topics
Health
Information and communication technology
Service delivery
Document Type

Working Without Borders: The Promise and Peril of Online Gig Work

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 09/11/2023 - 15:06

worldbank.org (2023-07-24) Jobs are crucial for individual well-being. They provide a livelihood and, equally important, a sense of dignity. They are also crucial for collective well-being and economic growth. Over the past decade, technology has fundamentally shifted traditional work patterns, creating new ways in which work is contracted, performed, managed, scheduled, and remunerated.

Global challenges
Topics
Information and communication technology
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Digital Platforms
Document Type

Effects of digitalization on the human centricity of social security administration and services

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 03/17/2023 - 16:20

ILO Working paper 87 (Feb 2023)  Human-centered social security administrations keep the human dimension in control of decision-making. This is made possible through the insight to be gained from digital data-driven innovation in policy and governance and managerial reforms. Moreover, there are risks associated with collecting and analysing people’s digital data analysed and using it to further automate business processes. Human centricity is examined in this paper, through a human + machine approach, starting with social policy through to service delivery.

Topics
Innovation capacity
Information and communication technology
Service delivery
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Business processes
Service delivery
Document Type

Digital innovations in delivering social protection in rural areas: Lessons for public provisioning during the post-pandemic recovery and beyond

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 03/06/2023 - 16:28

International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) (31.12.2022) Over the past 20 years, considerable progress has been made in reducing poverty worldwide, with the expansion of social protection coverage and uptake playing a key role. To strengthen and expand the public provision of social protection, countries have been investing in the development of robust delivery systems, including digital tools, especially identification and payment systems and social registries.

Topics
Information and communication technology
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Service delivery
Document Type

Making access to social protection for workers and the self-employed more transparent through information and simplification

Submitted by pmassetti on Tue, 02/28/2023 - 16:19

European Social Policy Network (ESPN)europa.eu (31.01.2023) “Transparency” of social protection systems is essential for people's awareness of their rights and obligations concerning social protection and enables them to take informed decisions. It requires, in particular, that countries provide full information on social protection schemes, and also that they simplify, wherever needed and to the extent possible, access rules and administrative requirements linked to these schemes.

Regions / Country
european union
Global challenges
Topics
Information and communication technology
Digital inclusion
Service quality
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Service delivery
Document Type

Principles for digital development in social protection

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 02/27/2023 - 15:51

spdci.org (2023) - This document offers guidance on the application of the PDDs to social protection. After presenting the background and objectives, it sets out how each principle applies to digital social protection solutions. First, the original definition is presented for each principle, followed by the social protection perspective, and the key actions to apply it in practice. Barriers to implementation are highlighted and ways to overcome these barriers suggested. Country-level examples of good and bad practices, as well as additional resources, are provided throughout.

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Information and communication technology
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Business processes
Document Type

India: From digitisation to platformisation — how social protection schemes can be made more accessible

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 11/14/2022 - 16:11

theprint.in (31.11.2022) Social Protection Open Digital Ecosystems (SP-ODEs) can provide beneficiaries, government and service providers a unified, digital platform to better access welfare schemes.

Regions / Country
india
Global challenges
Topics
Information and communication technology
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Business processes
Document Type