Achieving Digital Development Goals: Partnering with Asia’s New Creative Class

While the proliferation of the Internet and smart-phones has enabled citizens to become increasingly more engaged on economic and political issues in their own countries and beyond, the specialized skills needed to design and develop civic tech tools to make this happen are in high demand. In many cases, the lure of private sector jobs deprives the public sector and civil society of the assets that are needed to build the modern, mobile web. Today’s digital development goals require new, innovative approaches to program design and implementation, which in turn, factor in the realities of the ICT4D labor market.