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Digital innovation profile Oman
2023  New!  

This Digital Innovation Profile, conducted in partnership with the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTCIT) of the Sultanate of Oman, aims to accurately assess the country's digital ecosystem capacity and maturity to help Oman and its stakeholders navigate the digital innovation landscape. The aim is to help Oman to continue building new capabilities for a competitive, sustainable, and ICT-enabled economy that accelerates the development of the digital economy toward achieving Oman's vision.
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Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation - Africa region
2021  

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Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation - Asia-Pacific region
2021  

The pandemic has highlighted the indispensable role of digital technologies for communicating, learning, working, doing business, and interacting with the society and economy. However, there are still barriers to connectivity, including affordability concerns. Digital innovations are necessary to overcome these hurdles. This report utilizes the ITU ICT-centric innovation ecosystems approach to highlight good practices that can be adopted throughout the region to close the digital innovation divide.
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Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation - Arab States
2021  

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Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in Europe
2021  

Innovation is at the core of sustainable development and inclusive digital transformation. Digital innovation helps create jobs, improve services, strengthen economic growth, and foster a knowledge-sharing society. Under the framework of the ITU Regional Initiative for Europe on "Information and communication technology-centric innovation ecosystems", this regional report provides a comparative analysis of European countries using existing international rankings on ICTs, innovation and entrepreneurship. It also highlights various good practices and policies in the European region that can inform decisive actions in nurturing entrepreneurship-driven innovation.
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Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in the Americas region
2021  

The Americas region is facing different realities regarding the evolution of innovation performances, coupled with some significant challenges: brain drain, insufficient resources, lack of adequate training and education in ICT-centric innovation and - in some cases- insufficient infrastructure. At the same time, the region has many good practices and examples tackling and overcoming those challenges that can be used to accelerate digital transformation and serve as a basis for better policies in countries where gaps have been identified.
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Bridging the digital innovation divide: A toolkit for developing sustainable ICT-centric ecosystem projects
2020  

Building on ITU's innovation toolkit series, this revised toolkit adds new tools and shares more insights on how stakeholders can undertake rapid ecosystem diagnosis, establish key recommendations, and develop flagship projects that effectively nurture ICT-centric innovation within their digital ecosystems.
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Digital Innovation Profile Montenegro
2020  New!  

Digital Innovation Profiles have been developed to provide an accurate assessment of an ecosystem's capacity and maturity. The assessment is done through a series of events in which stakeholders from the ecosystem come together to analyse the current situation and co-create appropriate solutions via flagship projects and/or initiatives, and policies designed to close the digital innovation gap.
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Digital innovation profile: North Macedonia - Digital innovation ecosystem: Strategies and recommendations for accelerating digital transformation
2023  New!  

This National Digital Innovation Profile prepared by ITU provides a comprehensive look at the current state of the digital landscape and technology adoption in North Macedonia, exploring the latest trends, key players and innovative solutions shaping our country's future.
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ICT-centric innovation ecosystem country review: Republic of Moldova
2018  

Moldova identifies itself among countries with a strong focus on enhancing the growth of the IT industry and positively expanding its potential. This report provides a snapshot of challenges and opportunities currently faced by stakeholders, and is complemented by seven key recommendations based on the needs analysis. These specific policies, programmes, or flagship projects recommendations will serve as a reference tool to help guide and support innovation with aim to make Moldova attractive as a potential hub for emerging technologies. These new approaches to policy-making became the basis for the new Strategy for fostering the digital innovation ecosystem currently being developed in the country.
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Digital innovation profile - Georgia
2023  New!  

This digital innovation profile will serve as a valuable resource for policymakers, innovators, the private sector, and other stakeholders in Georgia. It offers critical insights into Georgia's digital innovation landscape, identifies areas for improvement, and presents strategic recommendations for collective decision-making processes towards accelerating the country's AI-driven competitive advantage.
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Digital innovation profile - Serbia
2023  New!  

This digital innovation profile will serve as a valuable resource for policymakers, innovators, the private sector, and other stakeholders in Serbia. It offers critical insights into Serbia's digital innovation landscape, identifies areas for improvement, and presents strategic recommendations for collective decision-making processes.
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Bridging the digital innovation divide: A toolkit for strengthening ICT centric ecosystems
2018  

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