Skip to main content
  • Sections
  • Search

Center for Strategic & International Studies

User menu

  • Subscribe
  • Sign In

Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Cybersecurity and Technology
    • Cybersecurity
    • Data Governance
    • Intellectual Property
    • Intelligence, Surveillance, and Privacy
    • Military Technology
    • Space
    • Technology and Innovation
  • Defense and Security
    • Counterterrorism and Homeland Security
    • Defense Budget
    • Defense Industry, Acquisition, and Innovation
    • Defense Strategy and Capabilities
    • Geopolitics and International Security
    • Long-Term Futures
    • Missile Defense
    • Space
    • Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation
  • Economics
    • Asian Economics
    • Global Economic Governance
    • Trade and International Business
  • Energy and Sustainability
    • Energy, Climate Change, and Environmental Impacts
    • Energy and Geopolitics
    • Energy Innovation
    • Energy Markets, Trends, and Outlooks
  • Global Health
    • Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health, and Immunizations
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • Health and Security
    • Infectious Disease
  • Human Rights
    • Building Sustainable and Inclusive Democracy
    • Business and Human Rights
    • Responding to Egregious Human Rights Abuses
    • Civil Society
    • Transitional Justice
    • Human Security
  • International Development
    • Food and Agriculture
    • Governance and Rule of Law
    • Humanitarian Assistance
    • Human Mobility
    • Private Sector Development
    • U.S. Development Policy

Regions

  • Africa
    • North Africa
    • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Americas
    • Caribbean
    • North America
    • South America
  • Arctic
  • Asia
    • Afghanistan
    • Australia, New Zealand & Pacific
    • China
    • India
    • Japan
    • Korea
    • Pakistan
    • Southeast Asia
  • Europe
    • European Union
    • NATO
    • Post-Soviet Europe
    • Turkey
  • Middle East
    • The Gulf
    • Egypt and the Levant
    • North Africa
  • Russia and Eurasia
    • The South Caucasus
    • Central Asia
    • Post-Soviet Europe
    • Russia

Sections menu

  • Programs
  • Experts
  • Events
  • Analysis
    • Blogs
    • Books
    • Commentary
    • Congressional Testimony
    • Critical Questions
    • Interactive Reports
    • Journals
    • Newsletter
    • Reports
    • Transcript
  • Podcasts
  • iDeas Lab
  • Transcripts
  • Web Projects

Main menu

  • About Us
  • Support CSIS
    • Securing Our Future
Photo: efks/Adobe Stock

You are here

  1. Home
  2. Project on Prosperity and Development
  3. Projects
  4. Digital Development
Connect

Digital Development

With the Internet constantly evolving in its scope and potential, digital technologies powered by the Internet can be powerful tools that can transform lives, spur economic growth, and improve development outcomes for many emerging and some frontier market economies. These countries have an opportunity to leapfrog substantial momentum to partner with private sector actors to pursue the digital transformation of the broader political economy and leapfrog their way to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

However, there are several impediments to digital transformation that can range from cybersecurity challenges to a lack of supporting infrastructure and human resources. Moreover, with authoritarian nations promoting models of digital governance that actively seek to undermine liberal democratic institutions, international standard-setting bodies for digital technologies have also become critical tools agencies of change and influence.

CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development has adopted an inter-disciplinary approach to these issues and has partnered with thought leaders internally and externally, and has led on this topic. These partnerships have resulted in bipartisan policy recommendations on the most pressing digital challenges of the moment and have outlined how the United States government can seize the opportunity to lead its allies and partners in securing the digital world and preserving it as a driver of sustained and equitable prosperity worldwide.


Project on Prosperity and Development

  • Events
  • Projects
    • Quality Infrastructure
    • Development Finance
    • Education, Work, and Youth
    • Digital Development
      • Digital Financial Inclusion
    • U.S. Soft Power Tools
  • Analysis
  • Global Development Forum
  • Podcast: Building the Future
  • Prosper Blog
  • Staff and Affiliates
Find Additional Content
Media Queries
Contact H. Andrew Schwartz
Chief Communications Officer
Tel: 202.775.3242

Contact Paige Montfort
Media Relations Coordinator, External Relations
Tel: 202.775.3173

Most Recent

On Demand Event
Data for Development and Diplomacy: the New Age
January 27, 2022
On Demand Event
An Armchair Discussion with David Malpass, President of the World Bank Group
November 8, 2021
Critical Questions
Global Digital Governance: Here’s What You Need to Know
By Daniel F. Runde, Sundar R. Ramanujam
October 1, 2021
Commentary
Fiat Digital Currency, Information, and Power
By John Simon
August 24, 2021
Report
Digital Governance: It Is Time for the United States to Lead Again
By Daniel F. Runde, Sundar R. Ramanujam
August 2, 2021
View all content associated with this program
Footer menu
  • Topics
  • Regions
  • Programs
  • Experts
  • Events
  • Analysis
  • Web Projects
  • Podcasts
  • iDeas Lab
  • Transcripts
  • About Us
  • Support Us
Contact CSIS
Email CSIS
Tel: 202.887.0200
Fax: 202.775.3199
Visit CSIS Headquarters
1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Media Queries
Contact H. Andrew Schwartz
Chief Communications Officer
Tel: 202.775.3242

Contact Paige Montfort
Media Relations Coordinator, External Relations
Tel: 202.775.3173

Daily Updates

Sign up to receive The Evening, a daily brief on the news, events, and people shaping the world of international affairs.

Subscribe to CSIS Newsletters

Follow CSIS
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
  • Instagram

All content © 2022. All rights reserved.

Legal menu
  • Credits
  • Privacy Policy
  • Reprint Permissions