The concept of building bridges and creating partnerships is vital in sharing knowledge, fostering sustainable growth and inclusion all humanity which in turn is leads to global prosperity and peace. In our digital age, the technology and internet allow marginalised communities access to a world of knowledge, ideas and opportunities they otherwise would not have access to closing a long endured divide between different communities and human beings around the world. Therefore, digital platforms that seek to build bridges between different stakeholders and create previously unlikely partnerships are key in fostering sustainable development particularly in regions like the global south. Such partnerships and collaborations allow their stakeholders to virtually enter new markets and opportunities that drive innovation, growth and resilience. We take this opportunity to launch the Egyptian Government's "Hub for Advisory, Finance and Investment for Enterprises – HAFIZ" which is a fully integrated platform that allows the private sector to understand the needs of the different development partners while bridging the information gap and exposing the private sector in Egypt to finance, business and development opportunities provided by these ODA partners across the globe. Additionally there are different formats of partnerships in Africa that are helping usher in a digital era such as the World Bank's Digital Development Partnership (DDP) initiative which brings public and private sector partners together to advance digital solutions and accelerate safe and inclusive digital transformation in developing countries with extensive lessons learnt from their work in Africa and the global south which must be shared with the world. https://www.digitaldevelopmentpartnership.org/ https://privatesector.moic.gov.eg/?lang=en 1) Facilitation of interaction between onsite and online speakers and attendees will be managed by the virtual and onsite moderators who will foster a balanced discussion and inputs between speakers and take questions for virtual and onsite participants. 2) This session is designed to foster partnerships, the roundtable set up will allow onsite participants to introduce themselves to other participants on their table and get to know one-another while the chat function on MS Teams will allow virtual participants to introduce themselves as well and communicate their thoughts and comments with one-another. 3) In addition to the technology and tools provided by the IGF, the session organisers will use MS Teams to allow virtual participants to communicate with each other, follow the discussion, view visuals and presentations as well as pose questions for the speakers.
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