Digitalisation for a just social compact : global south lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

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The purpose of this policy paper is to identify the points of policy intervention to identify or create those conditions that contribute to post-pandemic economic reconstruction and future pandemic resilience. It draws on three phases of research in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, focusing initially on South Africa, Nigeria, (Africa), Sri Lanka and India (Asia) and Peru and Colombia (Latin America), with later rounds incorporating findings gathered in other countries in the three regions. The first and second phases of the research set out to understand the status and potential role of digitalization and datafication in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION, PANDEMIC RESILIENCE, COVID-19 RESPONSE, DIGITALIZATION, DATAFICATION, GLOBAL

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