Digital Resilience in the Pacific through a GEDSI Lens
Explore the importance of using a Gender, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) approach to enhance digital resilience in the Pacific region. Discover key insights, challenges, and opportunities for bridging digital gaps and promoting inclusivity.
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GEDSI & Digital Resilience in the Pacific Tait Brimacombe, AIFFP GEDSI Advisor PRIF Week 2024 INTERNAL. This information is accessible to ADB Management and Staff. It may be shared outside ADB with appropriate permission.
Overview Why use a GEDSI lens to understand digital resilience? Framing our approach to digital resilience: 3 pillars AIFFP s approach: Regional scoping report Palau pilot Key learnings so far INTERNAL. This information is accessible to ADB Management and Staff. It may be shared outside ADB with appropriate permission.
Why a GEDSI approach to digital resilience? Digital resilience Gender, Disability & Social Inclusion (GEDSI) The bigger picture Infrastructure approach to hard infrastructure & cable resilience. Pacific calls for support to manage the downstream impact of this connectivity & bolster digital resilience for users. Data poor environment & evidence gaps. Crowded donor space, potential for duplication. Increasing efforts to respond to GEDSI renewed policy focus. Fewer project-level entry points to integrate GEDSI. Failure to apply a GEDSI lens could mean failing to take advantage of opportunities to value add or inadvertently perpetuating/widening existing inequalities. INTERNAL. This information is accessible to ADB Management and Staff. It may be shared outside ADB with appropriate permission.
What weve done 1. Regional scoping report: Build a clearer evidence base on GEDSI & digital resilience in the region Begin to map the work of other donor counterparts 2. Whole of Aust. Govt mapping 3. Palau pilot to test approach Next steps: country briefs to support dialogue & scope opportunities for value-add. INTERNAL. This information is accessible to ADB Management and Staff. It may be shared outside ADB with appropriate permission.
Key Learnings so far Gender social norms and disability stigma drives digital gaps, inequalities and barriers Online safety issues disproportionately impact women & are compounded by high rates of GBV (offline) & existing norms Link between digital literacy and digital safety Underpinning factors include: gendered social norms, exclusion & stigma, education, unemployment/poverty Significant data gaps in the region = risk of inadvertently perpetuating gaps & challenges monitoring progress INTERNAL. This information is accessible to ADB Management and Staff. It may be shared outside ADB with appropriate permission.
Key Learnings cont Coordination is key Risk of duplication & overwhelm Localisation is important for sustainability Bottom-up identification of priorities & needs Cultural relevance and salience The interplay between cyber safety & cyber security is important Need to ensure communities aren t left behind INTERNAL. This information is accessible to ADB Management and Staff. It may be shared outside ADB with appropriate permission.
Thank you! Tait Brimacombe, AIFFP GEDSI Advisor taitbrimacombe@aiffp.com.au INTERNAL. This information is accessible to ADB Management and Staff. It may be shared outside ADB with appropriate permission.
