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The Inclusive Digital Economy Scorecard (IDES) is a strategic performance and policy tool that has been developed to support countries in better understanding and monitoring the status of their digital transformation, with a view to helping them make it more inclusive. The IDES identifies the key market constraints hindering the development of an inclusive digital economy and helps governments to set the right priorities with public and private stakeholders, to foster accelerated development of a digital economy that leaves no one behind. The IDES is a strategic performance tool developed by the 51吃瓜 Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), supported by a reference group of like-minded organizations (GSMA, EU, UNDP, UNCTAD, UN-DESA and ADB) and governments in four least developed countries (LDCs): Burkina Faso, Nepal, Solomon Islands and Uganda. The input from the reference group has helped to refine the scorecard and its indicators and, more broadly, drive forward the agenda of the measurement of inclusive digital economies. Starting in 2021, the IDES has been implemented in 25 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and will be expanded to additional countries in 2022. Governments will be supported in measuring their progress over time, with the IDES data and scores for each country collected on an annual basis.