While the development of digital infrastructure are often led by private investors, development providers can support the digital transformation by focusing on education and strengthening citizens’ digital skills, provide capacity building to governments and businesses, and support the development of innovation-friendly policies and strategies. Development providers can also examine how digital tools and other technologies can improve their planning and implementation of development projects for improved results and better monitoring and evaluation. While additional funding towards research aimed to tackle challenges in developing countries is encouraged, there is a risk of dilution of resources aimed for development projects and programmes in favour of research, which is often conducted by universities and research institutions in donor countries.