SDG 17 pursues capacity building through access to data, information and knowledge to support decision-making and oversight. Such guidelines embrace the economic viability and sustainability attributes that innovation must have to be called such, in the field of promoting digital innovation. Those guidelines provide a clear path to streamline efforts in this area by directing support to three crucial areas: (1) developing a market for digital innovation products and services; (2) supporting initiatives to bring about new and more efficient business models and processes; and (3) providing focused support to the generation of innovative products and services. To achieve these ends, it is proposed to establish adequate mechanisms to provide technical and financial support in each one of those areas, utilizing partners and collaboration mechanisms.
The results of the Brazilian Census 2010 show that of a total population of 193 million people, approximately 46 million people of Brazil's total population have some kind of disability. Brazil is one of the world's leading IT markets and the largest IT market in Latin America. This chapter presents a program started by the Government of the State of Sao Paulo through its Secretariat for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (SEDPcD) in 2013 that aims to promote the rehabilitation and social inclusion of persons with disabilities. Adopting the application of the concept and instruments of the knowledge economy as core strategy and through the application of ICT-based assistive technologies, the program develops solutions to a level where they can be applied massively in a cost-effective way.
The improvement in the delivery of healthcare services in geographically remote and rural areas is one of the most promising and clearly demonstrated applications of information and communication technology (ICT) in sustainable development. ICT provides considerable benefits and capabilities when applied to disease prevention and response efforts during epidemics and pandemics. The expansion of the COVID-19 outbreak that began in Wuhan, China alerted all the countries of the world from the beginning of 2020 and reached Latin America in mid-February 2020. In this chapter, VERIS, an Ecuadorian successful practice of telemedicine during the COVID-19 times, is presented. VERIS allows remote consultation with a certified doctor, following the WHO protocol, and other relevant services provided also remotely. The VERIS experience is particularly relevant during the present COVID-19 pandemic because it eliminates the risks of contagion deriving from visiting hospitals in person and could be particularly useful for emerging economies with practical implications for mature ones.
SDG 17 pursues capacity building through access to data, information and knowledge to support decision-making and oversight. Such guidelines embrace the economic viability and sustainability attributes that innovation must have to be called such, in the field of promoting digital innovation. Those guidelines provide a clear path to streamline efforts in this area by directing support to three crucial areas: (1) developing a market for digital innovation products and services; (2) supporting initiatives to bring about new and more efficient business models and processes; and (3) providing focused support to the generation of innovative products and services. To achieve these ends, it is proposed to establish adequate mechanisms to provide technical and financial support in each one of those areas, utilizing partners and collaboration mechanisms.
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