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USAID Digital Policy 2024-2034

Development in a Digital Age

The USAID Digital Policy provides the vision for the Agency to work towards a future where digital technology promotes inclusive growth, fosters resilient and democratic societies, advances human rights, and empowers all, including the most vulnerable.

The Digital Policy aims to prepare USAID and our partners around the world to keep pace with rapid change, adopt digital technologies responsibly, embrace democratic values, bolster information integrity and resilience, engage in strategic competition to counter authoritarianism, and decisively accelerate development progress and humanitarian response using digital technologies.

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Goals

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Build

Propel positive development and humanitarian outcomes through an infrastructural approach to digital technology and services.

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Transform

Evolve the digital approach of USAID and our partners through proactive improvement of knowledge, skills, policies, and technology.

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Protect

Promote privacy, security, transparency, equity, and human rights in USAID programming and across the broader digital context.

Principles

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Understand the Digital Ecosystem

Invest time to understand local contexts, this will help prevent unintended programmatic consequences.

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Put People First and Respect Human Rights

Address existing power structures and embrace “do no harm” principles when adopting new technologies to avoid entrenching the status quo and further harming the most marginalized.

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Strengthen Local Digital Capacity, Infrastructure, and Partnerships

Support inclusive workforce training, foster digital literacy, and promote peer learning; invest in common shared resources; and engage in responsible local partnerships based on shared values.

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Embrace Innovation and Adaptation

Prioritize intentionality over speed and a multistakeholder approach centered on local needs.

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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessments

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The Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA), a flagship initiative of the Digital Strategy, identifies development opportunities and risks in a country’s digital ecosystem. It informs decision-making about digital programming and investments for USAID and partner governments, donors, the private sector, and civil society.

Artificial Intelligence Action Plan

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Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly prevalent in our lives—from digital voice assistants to personalized advertising and entertainment or advanced medical diagnostics.

USAID Geospatial Strategy 2024 - 2028

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Geospatial Strategy

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USAID’s first-ever Geospatial Strategy seeks to institutionalize the use of geospatial data and technology to achieve greater efficiency in programs, operations, and development outcomes.

Digital Development

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The knowledge hub for digital development. Bringing you the most relevant country-level data and resources to understand the dynamic digital ecosystems of countries under one domain.

To learn more about the Digital Policy, please contact us at digitaldevelopment@usaid.gov 

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