Learn how closing the Silver Digital Divide empowers aging societies. Discover how AI and digital tools boost senior productivity, healthcare, and the silver economy.
Discover how service design is transforming digital government in Ghana and beyond. Learn why user-centered platforms fail without real process re-engineering.
Explore how lower-and-middle-income countries can strategically navigate digital sovereignty in an AI-driven world. This article breaks down the tradeoffs of global dependencies, the hidden financial costs of blanket data localization for SMEs, and the power of regional agreements. Discover the World Bank Group's upcoming outcome-based toolkit designed to help policymakers balance infrastructure resilience, data protection, and local capacity building to achieve lasting digital development outcomes for their citizens.
A new Global Findex Note, “Digital Connectivity and Financial Inclusion in Arab Countries”, reviews the region’s progress on financial inclusion, assesses financial vulnerabilities, and identifies pathways to build greater economic resilience — drawing on the latest evidence from the Global Findex 2025.
Why isn't AI boosting global productivity yet? Discover key insights from the AI in Action conference on skills, jobs, and the truth about the AI J-curve.
The World Bank Group's Atlas of Global Development 2026 measures development in years, revealing how far countries are from advanced development across poverty, health, education, electricity access, women’s empowerment, and carbon intensity.
For millions of women globally, digital literacy programs can unlock opportunities, like new skills, a growing network, and digital jobs. Yet, around the world, women are less likely than men to use the Internet. With over 800 million worldwide still offline, the scale of the challenge is large and urgent.
The digital platform GOV.BR was created to change this reality through a partnership between the World Bank and Brazil’s Digital Government Secretariat.
In Argentina, an AI‑powered employment pilot is beginning to change that by revealing a wealth of experience that up to now has remained invisible and helping people connect, often for the first time, with public employment services.
Fast payment systems move money instantly and cheaply, but errors and fraud are hard to reverse. Integrating secure digital identity reduces risk and friction, helps small firms formalize and scale, and supports jobs, productivity, and resilience across the digital economy.