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Dear all,

Welcome to the November edition of our newsletter. You may have noticed something different: we have a new branding! Things evolve very fast in our space and following the recent rebranding of UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), we have adapted ours! We hope you like it!

This month we will take you through relevant insights from the COP29 in Azerbaijan and the first-ever Digitalization Day. Among mitigated outcomes, a Declaration on Green Digital Action was endorsed. It acknowledges the need to leverage sustainable digital technologies for climate action, underscoring the importance of equitable access, innovation, and collaboration to lessen digitalization’s environmental impacts. More in the dedicated section.

We will also share some highlights about the key regional events that happened this month: from the ninth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean (ELAC2026), which adopted the Digital Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean (eLAC2026), establishing the priorities for policy and action at a regional level for the next two years, to the Arab SMEs Summit-Rowad 2024, which showed a steadfast commitment to support the digital transformation of the region, including through direct support to enterprises that have yet to embrace the e-commerce journey, and the African Internet Governance Forum 2024 focusing on current challenges and opportunities in digital governance, and emerging technologies in Africa.

Also, check out the latest figures from ITU on the magnitude of the digital divide. According to the organization, in 2024, there are still 2.6 billion people not connected to the internet, down from the revised data of 2.8 billion in 2023. We’ve selected a digest of the main findings for you.

We will end, as customary over the past months, with relevant updates on the UN Global Digital Compact. Make sure to have a quick look at that section as well!

As we gently move into the holiday season, we would like to send you our warmest wishes for a joyful and peaceful New Year. Our newsletter will take a break in December and will happily hit your inboxes back again in January.

Happy reading!