Introduction

The Oxford Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD) and the ESRC-GCRF Inclusive Digital Model project is pleased to present an online conference titled 'Digital Technologies and Platforms in the Covid-19 Era: Challenges and Prospects for Developing Countries'. The conference is scheduled for Thursday, 28th January, 2021 between 10am - 1pm UK time.

Please register online here

What is on the agenda? 

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a rethink of and changes to business models across the world, beyond the economic and health disruptions and consequences. In part, the pandemic has reinforced the critical role of digital technologies and platforms in building resilience and collective capacity to confront global socio-economic shocks and to seize opportunities, reorganise, and transform the benefits of technology for fair and justifiable world order.

The Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD) and its flagship Inclusive Digital Model (IDMODEL) Project brings together renowned experts and speakers to assess these issues on the theme ‘Digital technologies and platforms in the Covid-19 era: Challenges and prospects for developing countries’. Across the conversations, key reflections and discussions will focus on the development of digital technologies and platforms, and the key challenges and prospects these new technologies and platforms pose for economic recovery and inclusive development in developing countries

The conference is supported by ESRC-GCRF funded IDMODEL project.

You can see the programme below.

Who shall be speaking?

Professor David Gann - CBE, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Development and External Affairs, University of Oxford, UK

Professor Diego Sanchez-Ancochea - Head of Department, Oxford Dept. of International Development

Professor Xiaolan Fu - Professor, University of Oxford, UK and TMCD Director

Mr. Wu Cheng- Senior Vice President, Tencent

Mr. Marcio Cruz-  Senior Economist, Trade & Competitiveness Global Practice, World Bank Group

Mr. Torbjorn Fredriksson - Chief, ICT Policy Section, UNCTAD

Professor Pervez Ghauri - Professor, University of Birmingham, UK

Mrs. Sonia Kabir - CEO of SBK Foundation and Vice Chair, Council of UN Tech Bank

Professor Pinar Ozcan - Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Mr. Richard Alex Roehrl -Senior Economist, UN DESA

Speakers names listed in alphabetical order