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Dear Friends,
Today the World Bank released its 2016 World Development Report, called
³Digital Dividends,² exploring the impact of digital technologies on
development. The report recognizes the broader development benefits from
using these technologies have been disappointing. In many instances, digital
technologies have boosted growth, expanded opportunities, and improved
service delivery. Yet their aggregate impact has fallen short and is
unevenly distributed. The report concludes that in order for digital
technologies to benefit everyone everywhere, countries also need to work on
the ³analog complements²‹by strengthening regulations that ensure
competition among businesses, by adapting workers¹ skills to the demands of
the new economy, and by ensuring that institutions are accountable.
I am pleased that my efforts to raise awareness at the World Bank on the
need for greater focus on the political incentives affecting record keeping,
as well as the need to strengthen policy frameworks, institutional
arrangements, and technical capacity globally have been recognized with
inclusion of my paper "One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward? Does
EGovernment make Governments in Developing Countries more Transparent and
Accountable?² in which I discuss the unintended consequences and downside
risks for transparency and accountability associated with the way recorded
information is produced and managed in digitally enabled developing country
public sector contexts, drawing upon the research that many archives and
records scholars and professionals have contributed over the years.
The 2016 World Development Report, including all background papers can be
accessed here: http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2016.
There is much work to be done globally to address these challenges.
Best wishes,
Vicki.
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