New Tech for SDGs... but let's act quickly! --- This is an important call from the UN Secretary General. It says it all: The use of new technologies as a tool to achieve the SDGs, but also the necessary conditions to make it work: infrastructure, education, security, role of the private sector and big Tech companies, civil society, international cooperation, open internet, human rights, standards etc. etc. The frame is set. It is addressing the digital divide and fragmentation of the internet. Even if geo-strategic interests are an obvious obstacle, it is necessary to try to advance at a multilateral level. We have to act quickly as the technology is moving fast.

Source author: Florence Tinguely Mattli florence.tinguely-mattli@eda.admin.ch