Objective: This session focuses on opportunities in leveraging digital technology, digital financial inclusion to transform smaller enterprise and advance agricultural sector, and effectively improve jobs and livelihoods.

Moderator: Ms. Karen Woo, Project Officer, ITU

• Building resilient micro-enterprises with digital transformation
  Presenter: PK Senyo, Associate Professor, FinTech & Information Systems, University of Southampton, UK

• ​Advancing Smallholder Agribusiness in Botswana through Smart Digital Innovation
  Presenter: Dr. Thorsten Jelinek, Director and Senior Fellow, Taihe Institute, China 

• The digital financial inclusion of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) of the COMESA region into electronic business during and post the COVID 19 pandemic
  Presenter: Dr. Reason Masengu, Senior Lecturer, Department of Management Studies, Middle East College, Muscat, Oman

Q&A​

Objective: This session focuses on challenges faced by vulnerable persons, and the opportunity available to society by empowering them with digital services.

• Moderator: Mr. Sameer Sharma, Senior Advisor, ITU
• An Assessment of Digital Inclusion among the Vulnerable Persons in Developing Economies
  Presenter: Dr. Fredrick Kanobe, Lecturer, Kyambogo University, Kampala, Uganda

• ​Reinvigorating Elderly Population in Post-COVID 19 Pandemic Era through Digital Inclusion Strategies: A Malaysian Case Study
  Presenter: Dr. Maniam Kaliannan, Associate Professor, School of Business, University of Nottingham Malaysia

Q&A