According to the ILO, Asia-Pacific is home to more than half of the world’s internet users and around two billion people in the region use internet daily through their mobile phones.1,2 Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the internet has become a vital part of daily life that offers new solutions to emerging and traditional challenges. Coinciding with this trend is the increase in development and deployment of digital tools in the development and humanitarian sectors as innovative solutions.3