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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.
To thrive, people will need new skills and knowledge, and countries will require updated policies to protect
online
users.
Since the program’s inception two years ago, nearly 30 global partners have been recruited, and an
online
platform has linked governments with organizations and donors to share resources, expertise, and knowledge.
Come next year, everyone in Washington, DC, had better be nice to Trump, lest they be subjected to nasty tweets, hate mail, and
online
attacks.
In China, three-quarters of Internet users get
online
via mobile phones already; in Ethiopia and Uganda, four out of five do.
Its many elements of Internet censorship – from blocking politically sensitive Wikipedia articles to filtering certain key words out of
online
searches – come together to form the so-called Great Firewall of China.
The site, entirely open and free (thanks to hundreds of volunteers in 82 countries), maintains a decentralized
online
database of around two million items of economic research, including working papers, journal articles, books, and software.
Education is increasingly
online
as well, and will soon enable students everywhere to receive first-rate instruction at almost a zero “marginal” cost for enrolling another student.
Philippines is an active
online
portal that allows service providers and consumers to find and interact with each other.
Although the rate of
online
voting in Estonia increased by nearly 20% between the 2007 and 2011 elections there, overall voter turnout increased by fewer than two percentage points (from 61.9% to 63.5%).
This suggests that
online
voting may simply encourage regular voters to change how they cast their ballots, rather than encouraging additional voters to participate.
With that reservoir of historical information and sophisticated algorithms, the company offers fee-based advice to farmers through an intuitive
online
portal.
In response to such extortionary practices, King Abdullah II decried “character assassination” by
online
news media and demanded that the government establish a regulatory framework for this unruly new sector.
Following a general election in January, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour, who had voted against the law as a member of parliament, assured angry Web-site owners and
online
journalists that he would work with them to find a solution based on goodwill.
Predators may lurk around the water cooler, but they are also active in
online
communities, chat rooms, and forums.
Such policies include
online
education courses for the unemployed, digital workers’ insurance, virtual unionization, and tax policies geared for the sharing economy.
Farmers’ personal networks are now global and
online.
Minitel boomed during the 1980s and 1990s, as it nurtured a variety of
online
apps that anticipated the global dot-com frenzy.
In India, that percentage may be even higher, as increasingly ubiquitous 4G services and increasingly cheap Internet-enabled smartphones have recently enabled millions to get
online
– and offer up significant amounts of personal information.
It is one thing to read about sophisticated cyber-war capabilities; it is quite another to see the
online
identities of familiar people or Web sites suddenly hijacked.
(The corollary with this
online
world is that, as Trump and Clinton discovered, we are all just one hack away from YouTube or WikiLeaks, cable news or talk radio, fame or infamy.)
Evidence of technology’s potential to help resolve our job concerns can be found in
online
talent platforms.
The
online
marketplaces built by Amazon and Alibaba, for example, have reshaped the retail landscape, partly by changing the local nature of retail markets.
Moreover, by facilitating faster matches,
online
talent platforms shorten the duration of unemployment, while the creation of flexible part-time opportunities can draw more inactive workers into the labor force and help part-time workers add hours.
In short, while
online
talent platforms cannot boost weak demand in advanced economies, solve complex development issues in the emerging world, or create better jobs across the board, they can have a major impact on seemingly intractable issues like unemployment, underemployment, and low job satisfaction.
Much of the impact of
online
talent platforms stems from the use of technology to bridge information asymmetries that impair labor-market performance.
But
online
talent platforms aggregate much larger amounts of information efficiently, increasing the “signal density.”
I recalled that episode recently when a startup came to me with an idea that included an
online
market for “life coaches.”
Experience shapes us as much as our genes (or innate talents) do, and
online
experience is cheaper and easier to shape.
The m-PESA Foundation, in partnership with the African Medical Research Foundation, has also begun implementing
online
training of community health volunteers and complementing these trainings with bulk SMS/WhatsApp group messages to keep the group connected and share important updates.
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