Technology is helping accelerate the response to a wide range of development challenges, with increased connectivity and innovative digital tools enabling more equitable health care delivery, strengthening food security, and hastening humanitarian responses.
As social media in general gains traction in Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey, digital platforms are being used to support Sustainable Development Goals related to promoting health, eradicating poverty, and championing equality.
Meta tools like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are empowering activists and humanitarians across the region, helping them connect with remote populations to educate individuals, organize partners, support marginalized communities in safe digital spaces, and drive concrete social and political change.
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