In fact, the current strategic conflict between the US and China over control of the upcoming communication protocols depends on the deployment of the 5G global network, where the US wants an open source based system, while China promotes a closed system of the 5G networks. [...] The packaging and marketing of the digital industry focuses on the hardware and software needed to use and store the information generated by algorithms and its processing. [...] 4 Digital divide: the ones that are left behind Whether we look at the production of data for the development of AI and other products, or whether we look at the processing, development, or sale of digital products, for everyone, it is necessary to be connected to the network. [...] UNCTAD in its Digital Economy Report 2021 highlights a ‘data-divide’ between countries of the Global South and North when it comes to the ability to own, control and harness data resources into valuable intelligence, and translate the same into opportunities for development.14 In an economy where digital intelligence is ever more central to production, countries and communities of the Global South. [...] While many have argued for the recognition of ownership rights over personal data as the road to data sovereignty 27, the pitfalls of such a logic is that it renders data into private property and obscures the structural crisis of data capitalism by reducing it to a “choice” to share/ not share one’s own data.
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Table of Contents
- China vs the US 2
- Digital colonialism 2
- Data value chains - how the global south is position 3
- Digital colonialism 3
- Digital colonialism 4
- Digital colonialism 5
- Digital colonialism 6
- The EU in the tech sector 7
- Digital colonialism 7
- Digital divide the ones that are left behind 8
- 1. Internet access 8
- Digital colonialism 8
- Digital colonialism 9
- 2. Access to devices 10
- Digital colonialism 10
- 3. Digital tools its uses and its knowledge 11
- 4. Gender 11
- Digital colonialism 11
- Digital colonialism 12
- Different data governance models 13
- Digital colonialism 13
- Mapping the global data governance debates 14
- Democratic data futures 14
- Digital colonialism 14
- A democratic data-future the way forward 15
- Digital colonialism 15
- An alternative path 16
- Digital colonialism 16
- NOTES 17
- Digital colonialism 17
- DigitalCapitalismCourse.tni.org 18
