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In the late 1990s, when digital technologies began to automate and disintermediate more routine jobs, the shift toward higher wealth and income inequality became turbocharged.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist David Autor and his colleagues have carefully documented the impact of globalization and labor-saving digital technologies on routine jobs.
All of this began to change with the rise of digital technologies and the Internet, but especially with the advent of social media.
All told, digital technology is shuffling economic structures and rebalancing power relationships in the world’s democracies – even in institutions once thought to be dominated by money and wealth.
These digital tools from the United States became the instruments for a trans-Arabian/Iranian youth revolt for freedom and democracy.
And politicians should focus their regulatory efforts on ensuring that sensible digital business models and private investment are not obstructed.
If the US and India can overcome their differences on this front, they will find significant opportunities to learn from each other in important areas, such as how to use e-commerce and digital platforms to help small and medium-size enterprises increase exports.
This is all the more true today, when digital technology has deepened the generational divide.
New digital technologies tend to exhibit scale economies and network effects, which produce concentration rather than localization of production.
Solving the Disinformation PuzzleMENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA – Ever since the November 2016 US presidential election highlighted the vulnerability of digital channels to purveyors of “fake news,” the debate over how to counter disinformation has not gone away.
When it comes to digital disinformation, at least four dimensions must be considered.
Bad actors will quickly circumvent any changes that digital platforms implement.
But there is little doubt that digital platforms are better equipped to adapt their policies regularly than government regulators are.
Yet digital platforms cannot manage disinformation alone, not least because, by some estimates, social media account for only around 40% of traffic to the most egregious “fake news” sites, with the other 60% arriving “organically” or via “dark social” (such as messaging or emails between friends).
But digital platforms naturally have incentives to curb such content, simply because people generally do not want to look foolish by sharing altogether false stories.
Because users engage heavily with this type of content, digital platforms have an incentive to showcase it.
One hopes that other digital platforms – such as Google, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr – will follow suit.
With the right insights, and a commitment to fundamental, if incremental, change, the social and political impact of digital platforms can be made safe – or at least safer – for today’s beleaguered democracies.
Also reminiscent of the TPP, there are provisions for the digital economy and the extension of intellectual property rights in areas like copyright and biologics data – wins for US corporations and setbacks for anti-globalizers.
For these reasons, efforts must be made to improve refugees’ digital connectivity, to ensure that they have access to their data and to their communities.
By ensuring access to work, strengthening communication and digital access, and laying the groundwork for post-war reconstruction, the people of a shattered region can begin planning for a more prosperous future.
This means that Africa has no say in a host of other issues relating to development, including infrastructure, the shape of the digital economy, and the global banking system.
And the EU’s digital market is a bonanza waiting be won, though France’s participation is surprisingly limited.
It was hosted by the Carlos Slim Foundation, which works in support of implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in such areas as health, deforestation, and closing the digital divide.
In the digital age, they want it to meet new standards of speed, reliability, and personalization.
(Curiously, given the book’s subject matter, it is not for sale in digital form).
Meanwhile, information technology and digital networks have automated a range of white- and blue-collar jobs.
But for capital-intensive digital technologies, the organizing principle will change: production will move toward final markets, which will increasingly be found not just in advanced countries, but also in emerging economies as their middle classes expand.
The dot-com bubble of the late 1990s was a misestimate of the timing, not the magnitude, of the digital revolution.
In energy, transport, and the digital sector, to name just a few, regulators must set the right parameters and ensure predictability.
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