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Acknowledgements

The development of this deliverable was led and coordinated by Warren Smith – former Deputy
Director, United Kingdom Government Digital Service (UK GDS), and Global Digital Marketplace
Programme Director, and now Founder and Principal Consultant at Dangersmith SARL and Associate
Director at CURSHAW – with the coordination support of John Davies, former Head of Sub-National
Government and Tech Sector Engagement for the Global Digital Marketplace Programme and now
Founder and CEO of Strategy 4 Technology Limited.

The authors of this report would like to extend their sincere gratitude to all the case study authors
who devoted substantial efforts in drafting the case studies, including Mythili Menon and Victoria
Papp (ITU).

Additionally, the coordinators would like to thank those who contributed case studies that were
not included.

The authors would like to thank the following contributing individuals:

Warren Smith and John Davies wish to thank the U4SSC management team: Nasser Al Marzouqi
(U4SSC Chairman), Katrina Naut, Abdurahman M. Al Hassan, Paolo Gemma, Tania Marcos and
Giampiero Bambagioni (U4SSC Vice-Chairman) for their assistance and contributions.

The authors also extend their gratitude to the contributing organizations along with their
representatives: Oliver Hillel from the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Lucy Winchester
and Vera Kiss from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC),
Simone Borelli from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Cristina Bueti (ITU), Deniz
Susar from United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), Iryna Usava
from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), James Murombedzi from the United
Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Guilherme Canela from the Regional Bureau
for Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Martina Otto and Sharon Gil from United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP), Matthew Ulterino from the United Nations Environment Programme Finance
Initiative (UNEP-FI), Motsomi Maletjane from the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate
Change (UNFCCC), Pontus Westerberg from the United Nations Human Settlements Programme
(UN-Habitat), Gulnara Roll from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE),
Katarina Barunica Spoljaric and Nicholas Dehod from the United Nations Industrial Development
Organization (UNIDO), William Kennedy from the United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOP),
Judy Backhouse from the United Nations University – Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic
Governance (UNU-EGOV), Sylvia Hordosch from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and
the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), Alexander Baklanov from the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) and Sandra Carvao from the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).

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