🛜 As with every advanced technology, access to digital technologies is unequal; such inequality could restrain opportunities and threaten development potential.
There is a significant lag between rich and poor countries in their access to digital technology, a gap seen before with respect to railways, the electronics industry, and pharmaceutics during the COVID-19 pandemic. But this gap had even greater potential consequences with the problem of data safety, the defence of private life, and the development of AI systems.
Aside from issues related to digital security and digital sovereignty, this entails global problems with regard to development economics, writes Jacques Sapir, director of studies at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and head of the Centre d'Étude des Modes d'Industrialisation (CEMI-EHESS).
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/factors-of-inequality-in-access-to-the-digital/
#Norms_and_Values #technology #digital #unequality
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There is a significant lag between rich and poor countries in their access to digital technology, a gap seen before with respect to railways, the electronics industry, and pharmaceutics during the COVID-19 pandemic. But this gap had even greater potential consequences with the problem of data safety, the defence of private life, and the development of AI systems.
Aside from issues related to digital security and digital sovereignty, this entails global problems with regard to development economics, writes Jacques Sapir, director of studies at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and head of the Centre d'Étude des Modes d'Industrialisation (CEMI-EHESS).
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/factors-of-inequality-in-access-to-the-digital/
#Norms_and_Values #technology #digital #unequality
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