Digital Smarts - Digital Connectivity the Key to Ending the Pandemic
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Our ability to recover from this pandemic may very well hinge on whether or not people in all stations of life can connect with each other. This particularly matters for the small- and medium-sized businesses that employ half the people in the world, in addition to approximately one-third of the world's children, whose education has been interrupted. The key to connection is access to broadband, which United Nations Development Programme administrator Achim Steiner aptly calls "the nervous system of today’s new digital economy.”