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U.N. Action Day urges rapid implementation of Global Digital Compact to close digital divides
Summary
United Nations speakers at Action Day pushed for turning the Global Digital Compactfrom text into finance, infrastructure and governance, citing a $4 trillion annual SDG financing shortfall and a multistakeholder implementation plan.
United Nations envoys, technologists and private-sector leaders urged concrete, cross-sector action to implement the Global Digital Compact at Action Day during the 10th Science, Technology and Innovation Forum.
Speakers said the compactagreed by U.N. member statescreates five interlocking objectives including connectivity, data governance and AI, and that implementation must knit together finance, infrastructure and rules. "The SDGs financing gap has soared to 4,000,000,000,000 per year," Amandeep Singh Gill, the U.N. Under-Secretary-General and the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology, told the meeting, calling the digital economy a "ray of hope" for constrained fiscal spaces.
The compact matters because its provisions touch infrastructure, jobs and democratic safeguards across large parts of the world. Without clearer implementation steps, delegates…
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