Side Meetings
SMB126
Scaling South-South Collaboration in Digital Health: Addressing Divides and Fostering Innovation Across Asia-Pacific
28
Jan
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14:00 - 17:30 HRS. (BKK)
- FHI360, USAID, UNDP, and ADB
South-South collaboration has proven critical in empowering developing countries to enhance their capacities and find innovative solutions to development challenges. UNDP's Digital Health for Development Hub facilitates knowledge exchange and technology transfer across LMICs, while USAID's digital connectivity efforts in the Pacific, alongside ADB's focus on enhancing national health financing through digital technologies, provide valuable resources to scale up these efforts. However, challenges such as the digital divide, varying levels of technological readiness, and governance capacity persist, especially among least developed countries (LDCs) and small island states. This session aims to explore how South-South collaboration and knowledge exchange can drive the scale-up of digital health innovations across regions, particularly in the Asia-Pacific.
- Foster Collective Self-Reliance: Promote greater exchange of digital health solutions and experiences to address shared challenges across Asia and the Pacific.
- Bridge the Digital Divide: Identify strategies to reduce the digital health divide and enhance self-reliance in LMICs and small island states through targeted knowledge exchange and technology transfer.
- Promote Sustainable Financing: Explore opportunities for financing scalable digital health infrastructure, focusing on fostering pro-innovation policies and regulations.
