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Title
Please provide a name for your action learning plan.
Digitalization
Challenge statement
Challenge type: If you are working on multiple challenges, please indicate if this is your "big bet" or "exploratory" challenge.
Please note: we ask you to only submit a maximum of 3 challenges - 1x Big Bet, 2x Exploratory. Each challenge must be submitted individually.
BIG BET
Challenge statement: What is your challenge? (Please answer in specific terms: "Our challenge is that...”.)
Our challenge is to understand how the digital divide shapes human development in Peru, and support a process of digital transformation to close this divide by working closely with UNDP's existing capabilities, government and private sector partners.
Background: What is the history of your challenge? What is causing or driving it? Who is involved? How does the current situation look like? What undesired effects does it produce?
The COVID-19 pandemic demanded a seismic shift in how we work so the digital inclusion became part of our roadmap since we started as the Accelerator Lab in Peru The Peruvian National Statistics Institute (INEI; inei.gob.pe) published that by the first trimester of 2020, 40.1% of Peruvian homes had internet access, although this number fell to 5.9% in rural areas. In Metropolitan Lima, 62.9% of homes had internet access. According to the Peruvian Ministry of Education, in 2020 20.1%, 19.7% and 23.7% of students in elementary, primary and secondary education respectively had access to the internet at home. They reside mostly in urban centers, which represent 25% of students with internet access at home for each educational level, while in rural areas this proportion falls under 3%.
Quantitative evidence: What (official) data sources do you have on this challenge that better exemplifies the importance and urgency of this frontier challenge? You can add text, a link, or a picture.
We have data from the National Statistics Institute from March 2021 and from the National Organization for Foreign Commerce from February 2021 describing internet access by geographical location and internet access for students by educational level.
Qualitative evidence: What weak signals have you recently spotted that characterizes its urgency? Please provide qualitative information that better exemplifies the importance and urgency of this frontier challenge. You can add text, a link, or a picture.
Accomplishing the objectives set by the Peru CPD is dependent on closing or at least reducing the current digital gap, since the socio-economic post COVID-19 recovery is reliant on ramping up the digitalization efforts in the country (https://www.latinamerica.undp.org/content/rblac/es/home/about-us/country-programmes.html). As stated in the section on Program and Risks, “UNDP will make innovation, digital transformation and development financing core accelerators of its programme delivery.” All ongoing programs in the Peru Country Office are negatively impacted by the digital divide experienced by Peruvian citizens outside of the major capitals, and our RRs and all programme officials have expressed the need for the Lab to work on this in 2022.
Value proposition: What added value or unique value proposition is your Accelerator Lab bringing to solving this challenge? Why is it your Lab that needs to work on this challenge and not other actors within UNDP, other stakeholders in the country respectively? Why is it worth investing resources to this challenge?
The Lab has a cross-cutting perspective of the Peru CO and can test initiatives that can support projects in more than one programme, such as experiments on digitalization that impact both food markets and artisanal fisheries. One of the Lab’s members is the CO’s digital advocate, and the Lab is likely the team within the CO with the most experience on digital initiatives to build an inclusive whole-of-society approach to digital transformation. For instance, the Lab will use the Digital Readiness Assessment, a survey-based tool to provide rapid, high-level insights into a country’s digital strengths and opportunities as an entry point to increase engagement with the Presidential Digital Secretary and UNDP The Lab can capitalise on the network’s knowledge on digitalization experiments from experiences: Mongolia, Uganda, Sudan, Kenya, Argentina, Ucrania, Moldova, South Africa, South Korea The Lab has gathered insights on the digital gap through its previous frontier challenges on changemaker youth, food systems and culture for development, and will apply them to its portfolio of experiments.
Short “tweet” summary: We would like to tweet what you are working on, can you summarize your challenge in a maximum of 280 characters?
In person schooling might be back, but the digital divide remains! How can you join the digital transformation of our country and make sure that no one is left behind? Join the national survey on digital capabilities here XXX and share with your friends!
Partners
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the Parter:
Internet para Todos
What sector does our partner belong to?
Private Sector
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
https://ipt.pe/. A joint initiative between BID, CAF, Telefónica and Facebook in order to shorten the digital divide in Latin America by bringing connectivity to rural and highly complex geographic areas. The Lab has been working on an MoU with IpT to facilitate the deployment of internet access in the areas where UNDP Peru is currently working on.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
Yes
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the Parter:
Prime Minister's Office
What sector does our partner belong to?
Government (&related)
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
The Lab is currently working with the Digitalization Secretariat of the Prime Minister's Office to support their efforts in assessing the existing digital capabilities in the country to kickstart a nation-wide digital transformation process. This collaboration is done in coordination with the Governance programme, to ensure that the Lab's approach is aligned with the CO's work with the national government.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
No
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the Parter:
Agros
What sector does our partner belong to?
Private Sector
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
https://www.agros.tech/. Agros is a Peruvian startup that seeks to generate opportunities for family farmers to access improved financial services, competitive markets and tele-consulting. The Lab will be working with Agros in coordination with our Environment programme to support the deployment of digitalization efforts within the ongoing projects.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
Yes
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the Parter:
UNDP Chief Digital Office
What sector does our partner belong to?
United Nations
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
The launch of the Digital Advocate Network (DAN), which is placed within the CDO, creates an enabling ecosystem and culture of digital innovation while its Digital Advocates will enable and identify opportunities for digital project delivery in country offices. The Lab's Head of Experimentation is the Peru CO's digital advocate, and the Lab is working jointly with the CDO to support the Prime Minister's Office's efforts (see above).
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
No
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the Parter:
Pecha Kucha
What sector does our partner belong to?
Civil Society
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
https://www.pechakucha.com/. The Lab is testing the Pecha Kucha methodology to create networking and knowledge sharing spaces in digital settings, in particular related to showcase the ongoing work of the Peru CO (ej. gender focused projects for March 8th, or an edition focused on UNDP's projects in the Amazon). A global agreement between Pecha Kucha and the Lab network is in the pipeline.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
Yes
Learning questions
Learning question: What is your learning question for this challenge? What do you need to know or understand to work on your challenge statement?
What are quick wins that support a long term digital transformation process? How can the impact of UNDP’s project be amplified by closing the digital divide among vulnerable populations? How can we improve internet adoption in the underserved population by leveraging existing resources? How can UNDP Peru build a toolkit for digital transformation in a country with limited internet access?
To what stage(s) in the learning cycle does your learning question relate?
Explore, Test, Grow
Usage of methods: Relating to your choice above, how will you use your methods & tools for this learning question? What value do these add in answering your learning question?
We will use these methods to gather a general view of the digital capabilities in the country, as well as the digital capabilities within the Peru CO to support digitalization efforts among vulnerable populations. We will also seek to understand who are the ones already pushing the digital transformation forward and seek to build alliances with them.
Existing data gaps: Relating to your choice above, what existing gaps in data or information do these new sources of data addressing? What value do these add in answering your learning question?
There is no current assessment of digital capabilities in the country (by sector or region). There isn't a national digitalization policy that can integrate all efforts. The impact of the digital divide on UNDP projects in Peru has not been accounted for.
Closing
Early leads to grow: Think about the possible grow phase for this challenge - who might benefit from your work on this challenge or who might be the champions in your country that you should inform or collaborate with early on to help you grow this challenge?
We will work with the Digital Secretariat within the Prime Minister's Office to identify the current digital capabilities and resources of Peruvian institutions and plan a digital transformation process to reduce the digital divide in the country, since the Peruvian Government is looking to design the country’s digital transformation policy and deploy e-services in the upcominh years.
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