Current profile on Policy Makers:

Policy Makers at any level, can use this tool to explore the different use cases they are interested in implementing to achieve various development outcomes.

Each use cases will highlight what workflows and ICT building blocks are needed to support the digital aspect of the use case. Identifying the generic ICT building blocks supports the coordinate across sectors and ministries, to take a whole of government approach, to making its digital investment.

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Camille is the Minister of Education in a LDC. She is in charge of primary education, in particular focused on improving enrollment of girls to meet the country’s targets for SDG 4: Quality Education. She is an critical decision-maker on allocating resources within her country. The COVID-19 pandemic reversed many of the gains in education, causing many children - and disproportionately more girls - to drop out of the school system.

Camille does not have an in-depth understanding of technology but understands that leveraging digital public goods can improve the educational outcomes for the children in her country by improving access and creating non-traditional learning opportunities for them. She understands the global policy agenda and the move towards digital transformation, and she realizes that neighboring countries are also “competing” for funding. As a result, she wants to be able to measure progress against any decisions she makes and find solutions that are sustainable and scalable.

She is constrained by the limited resources her country has, by regulation considerations, procuring competitive technology, and by the growing public concern of surrounding data & privacy.

For Camille, using the Catalog means that she will be using a common terminology to position digital transformation decision, both within her country and externally in front of donors. She can leverage proven digital solutions at a much lower cost than previously expected. Finally, she can also point implementers to guidance contained within the Catalog.

Camille is the Minister of Education in a LDC. She is in charge of primary education, in particular focused on improving enrollment of girls to meet the country’s targets for SDG 4: Quality Education. She is an critical decision-maker on allocating resources within her country. The COVID-19 pandemic reversed many of the gains in education, causing many children - and disproportionately more girls - to drop out of the school system.

Camille does not have an in-depth understanding of technology but understands that leveraging digital public goods can improve the educational outcomes for the children in her country by improving access and creating non-traditional learning opportunities for them. She understands the global policy agenda and the move towards digital transformation, and she realizes that neighboring countries are also “competing” for funding. As a result, she wants to be able to measure progress against any decisions she makes and find solutions that are sustainable and scalable.

She is constrained by the limited resources her country has, by regulation considerations, procuring competitive technology, and by the growing public concern of surrounding data & privacy.

For Camille, using the Catalog means that she will be using a common terminology to position digital transformation decision, both within her country and externally in front of donors. She can leverage proven digital solutions at a much lower cost than previously expected. Finally, she can also point implementers to guidance contained within the Catalog.

Characteristics

Motivations/Goals

Challenges/Pain points

Role

  • In-depth understanding of policy challenges they are trying to affect

  • Might be a learning curve in understanding of the SDG digital investment framework

  • Technical expertise can vary

  • Staying up-to-date with global policy agenda in order to get donor funding

  • Addressing development challenges and achieving SDG targets

  • Monitoring progress against decisions

  • Fundamental transformation of digital public infrastructure

  • Limited resources

  • Competition for neighboring countries or other countries in the same profile.

  • Adaptation of regulation and standards

  • Data privacy & security

  • Ensuring competition in the digital industry

  • Decision-makers on where to allocate resources within a country

  • Major key to deploying “whole-of-government” digital transformation.

Suggested:

Policy makers can use the Catalog to support development outcomes by exploring the gains that digital tools can provide in supporting their use cases and achieving a country’s SDG targets faster.

Each use case is connected to workflows and building blocks that are needed to digitize service delivery across a variety of sectors. In turn, building blocks support a whole-of-government approach, fostering coordination across ministries and reducing costs by sharing technology components across sectors.