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For many of India’s poor, living in unmapped villages or slums, a digital ID gives them official personhood – just as a birth certificate or social security number does in developed countries.
It has also strengthened property rights relating to land, labor, capital, and knowledge; this, together with advances in digital and robot technology, has brought down Chinese transaction costs.
It is time for US leaders to place the well-being of the high-tech wealth machine – which cost US taxpayers tens of billions of dollars to build – above the illusory notion that the only route to safety is unfettered access to the world’s digital traffic.
A large minority of citizens in the developed world inhabits filter bubbles created by these platforms – digital false realities in which existing beliefs become more rigid and extreme.
The social and political impact of the digital revolution could be even more dramatic.
It is possible to engineer a more responsible digital future.
Success requires public discourse, digital enlightenment and emancipation, and broader awareness of technology’s risks.
Simply put, our digital utopia will not arrive unaided.
To achieve this democratic digital future, the world needs to change how it thinks about technology.
The goal of both research efforts is to facilitate a more equitable digital future.
But building that future demands a new digital zeitgeist, whereby social, cultural, environmental, and ethical values become part of the design process.
Innovations and revolutions are often upsetting and tumultuous, but in the digital age, they can also be responsible.
Meanwhile, rapid technological change, including distributed manufacturing and digital business, has put many people aged 50-65 out of work.
This includes ensuring that all schools have enough computers, so that all students can benefit from today’s technological breakthroughs, with no digital divide among students or regions.
The Digital Divide Is Impeding DevelopmentGENEVA – It is easy to assume that access to the digital economy is ubiquitous, and that online shopping is the natural evolution of commerce.
But e-commerce is only one facet of the evolving digital economy.
Moreover, this rapid pace of digital tethering is occurring even as half the world’s population remains unconnected from the Internet.
That is why I believe more must be done to support poor countries as they strive to integrate into the digital economy.
Similarly, multilateral development banks are investing just 1% of their total spending on ICT projects, and only about 4% of this limited investment is being spent on policy development, work that is critical if digital economies are to be well regulated.
At my organization, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, we are creating strategies to help developing countries leverage their assets and improve digital capabilities.
The G20 is also planting its flag on this issue; in August, I joined G20 ministers in Argentina to discuss what can be done to spread the benefits of the digital transformation.
Still, while programs and summits can offer the world’s developing and least-developed countries a place to start in their push for greater connectivity, more support is needed if we are ever to close the digital divide.
With billions of people still below the first rung of the digital ladder, the climb to prosperity is becoming more challenging than ever.
But it offers the world the best chance of reaching a sustainable energy future unscathed, so we should explore this route with the same ingenuity and persistence that put humans on the moon and created the digital age.
This implies that closing the persistent digital divide between the world’s developed and developing regions could give a big boost to development.
The First Industrial Revolution occurred with the invention of the steam engine and mechanical production; the second was defined by electrification and mass production; and the third was the digital revolution, which began in the 1960s with the invention of computers, semiconductors, and the Internet.
At the same time, central banks from Sweden to China are realizing that they, too, can issue digital currencies.
The evangelists dismiss such concerns: Bitcoin can still be incredibly valuable as long as enough people perceive it as digital gold.
But it is too soon to say how the new world of digital currencies will play out.
Central banks will get into the game (their reserves are already a form of wholesale digital currency), but that is not the end of the story.
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