- The Global Innovation Forum focused on “building partnerships to mainstream entrepreneurship” and called for collaboration to help countries build up their innovation capacities – in line with one of the key goals in ITU’s Connect 2030 Agenda.
- UNOSSC and the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) partnered with ITU to run the second edition of ITU Innovation Challenges for enabling an environment to tackle challenges in the digital innovation domain.
- The ITU Innovation Challenges 2021 focused on building vibrant innovation communities to unlock digital transformation for the new normal. Award-wining proposals were invited to the Bootcamp, where they were provided with mentorship and training to scale up their ideas.
- Regional good practices – Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship, and digital transformation provided a comparative analysis for all six regions using existing international rankings on ICTs, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
- The ecosystem country assessment and recommendations were completed for Oman, Georgia, Serbia, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Philippines.
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