From improved access to health care and educational tools to better access to government information, integrating digital technologies to public services can have important benefits across many areas of development.
In this video for the Tech for Tomorrow content series, Thomas Beyer, former global head of technology transformation for infrastructure, government and healthcare at KPMG, discusses how the fast pace of change means that digital technologies are now in a place where they can be more easily leveraged in low- and middle-income countries.
“No country should be thinking about technology and innovation as an issue belonging to one sector, it’s a cross-cutting issue, affecting all sectors,” adds Colombia’s former minister of technology Carmen Ligia Valderrama Rojas. “One can’t think of education, nor health care, nor mining, nor culture, nor science if it doesn’t go together with technology and innovation.”
Watch the video to hear more of their discussion.
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