The statutory members of the Reference Group for the Dashboard of the Inclusiveness of the Development of the Digital Economy and Services (IDES) announce during a meeting that the rate of inclusion of the digital economy in Burkina Faso is estimated at 41%.

According to the 2020 report of the Inclusiveness of the Development of the Digital Economy and Services (IDES) scoreboard, the inclusion of the digital economy in Burkina Faso has made great progress. The document presented on Friday, June 25, 2021, in Ouagadougou is "a policy tool developed to help with key decision-making and the establishment of a reference group to follow up on the transformation of a inclusive digital economy in Burkina Faso”, explained the Technical Advisor, Seydou Yanogo. In view of the score recorded, he noted that efforts still need to be made to increase digital inclusiveness, in terms of innovation and skills development. He invited the members of the Reference Group for the Dashboard on the Inclusiveness of the Development of the Digital Economy and Services as well as all the actors to take more initiatives to make economic and financial inclusion a reality in Burkina Faso.

For the UNCDF country representative in Burkina, Jeannine Ouattara, the inclusion of the digital economy is one of the keys to development and contributes to achieving the objectives of sustainable development. That is why, given the scores achieved by Burkina, she said, UNCDF will always support the country's efforts. This is to enable the identification of market constraints that hinder the inclusive development of the economy.