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But the advent of cryptocurrencies may offer another way: the private sector can work directly with central banks to create a digital SDR to use as a unit of account and store of value.
In his view, today’s innovations – especially in digital technology, machine learning, and artificial intelligence – may be breathtaking, but they do not have the same broad productivity-raising potential.
A decade ago, many people believed that the proliferation of mobile devices in Africa would mean a short leap to digital empowerment.
But now, after years of investments, digital empowerment is underway, owing to a confluence of factors, including growing network coverage, more capable devices, and an expanding catalogue of applications.
As more people obtain access to better and cheaper digital technology, an inflection point is eventually reached, at which the benefits of providing digitally services like banking and health care clearly outweigh the costs.
M-Pesa first needed to invest in many brick-and-mortar stores where subscribers could convert the cash they earn into digital money (and back into cash).
But examples of large-scale, self-sustaining programs powered by digital technology, like M-Pesa, are harder to find, because the key pieces have not been put into place to enable the required work to advance beyond the limits of controlled experiments.
If some health workers use cellphones to send information to a central database, but others do not see the value, the digital system is incomplete – and thus just as flawed as the current paper system.
Community health workers with phones visit villages and submit digital forms with vital information about newly pregnant women.
This digital approach is now being extended to other regions, including Northern India.
Ultimately, when people are truly empowered, they will begin to use digital technology to innovate on their own behalf, building solutions that the established software-development community never considered.
As with other innovations – such as mobile phones, e-books, digital photography and music, and flat-screen televisions – large-scale deployment will occur when the new technologies reach the market tipping point, when their value to consumers exceeds the costs to businesses of supplying them.
Put another way, how can we construct a new social contract for the digital age?
There are skeptics who say that the public is resistant to buying digital content, because people are accustomed to getting it for free.
How the world responds to the threat of cyber attacks will determine the extent to which future generations will be able to benefit from the digital era.
Security in the digital world is based on technology, not geography.
Indeed, a huge global agenda of digital governance – the new domain of diplomacy – lies before us.
The EU must not allow a muddled understanding of digital realities to give rise to profoundly damaging digital protectionism.
But, in the digital age, speed is decisive.
Relying on the state’s most cumbersome institutions alone is not an effective strategy for protecting free speech on today’s digital communication networks.
Similarly, as digital technology facilitates the cross-border sale of services, and protections for domestic service providers become increasingly difficult to enforce, domestically oriented services in developing countries will face growing global competition.
With advanced and emerging economies moving fast to capture new opportunities created by technology, the digital divide is widening at an accelerating pace.
For example, China, which used a protectionist industrial policy to nurture domestic digital giants like Baidu and Tencent, is now supporting these firms as they move deeper into development of new technologies and try to expand globally.
This must change, but how?Development strategists often suggest that poor countries cannot afford to dedicate resources to the digital economy.
In Africa, for example, ongoing efforts to develop regional trade links and boost industrial cooperation – including frameworks like the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) initiative and Agenda 2063 – should include a focus on digital transformation strategies.
For example, ongoing World Trade Organization discussions about the rules that will govern the digital economy should be expanded to include strategies for leveling the global playing field.
Overcoming the resource constraints that limit developing countries’ investment in the digital economy will not be easy.
This commentary draws on research with Christopher Foster and Jaime Echavarri of the University of Sheffield exploring digital trade and its impacts on development.
Evolving consumption patterns, regulatory regimes, and digital technologies have lately encouraged more domestic production.
Will they create digital currencies of their own?
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