National Consultant to support the formulation Tender - 36960074

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Country: Mauritius

Summary: National Consultant to support the formulation of a Project document for the Pilot Mauritius/Port Louis for the digital Transformation Tool Estonia-UNDP Cooperation on Digital Transformation as Sustainable Development Pathway

Deadline: 17 Oct 2019

Posting Date: 12 Oct 2019

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 36960074

Document Ref. No.: 59919

Competition: ICB

Financier: United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership: -

Tender Value: Refer Document

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72224000 - Project management consultancy services

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National Consultant to support the formulation of a Project document for the Pilot Mauritius/Port Louis for the digital Transformation Tool Estonia-UNDP Cooperation on Digital Transformation as Sustainable Development Pathway
Project ID - 0011524 National Consultant to support the formulation of a Project document for the Pilot Mauritius/Port Louis for the digital Transformation Tool Estonia-UNDP Cooperation on Digital Transformation as Sustainable Development PathwayBackroundNew technologies are transforming economies and societies across the globe, shaping a future that is irrevocably digital, increasingly connected and on constant hyperdrive. Convergence of technologies continue to disrupt the way we do business, shifting whole industries, redefining institutions and people's engagement with them, and changing how we live overall.The pathway towards sustainable development recognizes the important role of technology, and many efforts leverage this role as discreet or significant elements of priorities in specific sectors (e.g., adoption of information and communications technologies/ICTs to improve education outcomes, modernization of public systems and processes to improve delivery of key public services, automation in industries to cut costs and improve efficiencies, smart systems to improve city operations, online portals to strengthen government engagement with people, Artificial Intelligence to harness and manage data, connectivity to boost entrepreneurship and competitiveness, etc.).More is needed however to fully leverage the digital revolution for the advancement of the SDGs as a whole, to not only harness the potential of digital technologies to achieve select sectoral priorities but to leverage digital transformation itself as a pathway to sustainable development.For developing countries that deal with concurrent priorities in the midst of significant constraints, laying out this pathway is a serious challenge in itself. It is in this context that the Estonia-UNDP Cooperation for Digital Transformation as Sustainable Development Pathway was launched in September 2018 and prioritizes efforts that address specifically these needs.The Cooperation prioritized the development of...

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