Digital dividends : World development report 2016

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 2016 World Bank washingtonDescription: 27 cm ; Pbk xxiii, 330 pISBN:

978-1464806711

Subject(s):

Digital Technologies

DDC classification:

338.9009512 DIG

Contents:

Overview : strengthening the Analog foundation of the digital revolution 1. Accelerating growth 2. Expanding opportunities 3. Delivering services 4. Sectoral policies 5. National priorities 6. Global cooperation

Summary: Digital technologies are spreading rapidly, but digital dividends - the broader benefits of faster growth, more jobs, and better services - are not. If more than 40 percent of adults in East Africa pay their utility bills using a mobile phone, why can't others around the world do the same? If 8 million entrepreneurs in China - one-third of them women - can use an e-commerce platform to export goods to 120 countries, why can't entrepreneurs elsewhere achieve the same global reach? And if India can provide unique digital identification to 1 billion people in five years, and thereby reduce corruption by billions of dollars, why can't other countries replicate its success? Indeed, what's holding back countries from realising the profound and transformational effects that digital technologies are supposed to deliver? The World Development Report 2016 shows that while the digital revolution has forged ahead, its "analog complements" - the regulations that promote entry and competition, the skills that enable workers to access and then leverage the new economy, and the institutions that are accountable to citizens - have not kept pace. And when these analog complements to digital investments are absent, the development impact can be disappointing.

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Overview : strengthening the Analog foundation of the digital revolution
1. Accelerating growth
2. Expanding opportunities
3. Delivering services
4. Sectoral policies
5. National priorities
6. Global cooperation

Digital technologies are spreading rapidly, but digital dividends - the broader benefits of faster growth, more jobs, and better services - are not. If more than 40 percent of adults in East Africa pay their utility bills using a mobile phone, why can't others around the world do the same? If 8 million entrepreneurs in China - one-third of them women - can use an e-commerce platform to export goods to 120 countries, why can't entrepreneurs elsewhere achieve the same global reach? And if India can provide unique digital identification to 1 billion people in five years, and thereby reduce corruption by billions of dollars, why can't other countries replicate its success? Indeed, what's holding back countries from realising the profound and transformational effects that digital technologies are supposed to deliver? The World Development Report 2016 shows that while the digital revolution has forged ahead, its "analog complements" - the regulations that promote entry and competition, the skills that enable workers to access and then leverage the new economy, and the institutions that are accountable to citizens - have not kept pace. And when these analog complements to digital investments are absent, the development impact can be disappointing.

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