Getting Connected: The Internet and Its Role as a Global Public Good

Garrity, John

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“…Because sustainable development involves (following the Rio documents) democratic ideals such as participation, open discourse and access these new developments of manipulating the open public discourse and nudging strategies must be carefully observed and analyzed. This is first of all an issue for regulation and political participation in an internet era, but is also a more fundamental issue of authorship and identity that need to be addressed [128]. Beyond monitoring and regulation, there is the need to explore the possibilities and opportunities for e-democracy but also to understand the barriers and constraints.…”

Section: A102 Digital Threats Related To Democracy (Proposition 2mentioning

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Unintended Side Effects of the Digital Transition: European Scientists’ Messages from a Proposition-Based Expert Round Table

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Abstract:We present the main messages of a European Expert Round Table (ERT) on the unintended side effects (unseens) of the digital transition. Seventeen experts provided 42 propositions from ten different perspectives as input for the ERT. A full-day ERT deliberated communalities and relationships among these unseens and provided suggestions on (i) what the major unseens are; (ii) how rebound effects of digital transitioning may become the subject of overarching research; and (iii) what unseens should become subjects of transdisciplinary theory and practice processes for developing socially robust orientations. With respect to the latter, the experts suggested that the "ownership, economic value, use and access of data" and, related to this, algorithmic decision-making call for transdisciplinary processes that may provide guidelines for key stakeholder groups on how the responsible use of digital data can be developed. A cluster-based content analysis of the propositions, the discussion and inputs of the ERT, and a theoretical analysis of major changes to levels of human systems and the human-environment relationship resulted in the following greater picture: The digital transition calls for redefining economy, labor, democracy, and humanity. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based machines may take over major domains of human labor, reorganize supply chains, induce platform economics, and reshape the participation of economic actors in the value chain. (Digital) Knowledge and data supplement capital, labor, and natural resources as major economic variables. Digital data and technologies lead to a post-fuel industry (post-) capitalism. Traditional democratic processes can be (intentionally or unintentionally) altered by digital technologies. The unseens in this field call for special attention, research and management. Related to the conditions of ontogenetic and phylogenetic development (humanity), the ubiquitous, global, increasingly AI-shaped interlinkage of almost every human personal, social, and economic activity and the exposure to indirect, digital, artificial, fragmented, electronically mediated data affect behavioral, cognitive, psycho-neuro-endocrinological processes on the level of the individual and thus social relations (of groups and families) and culture, and thereby, the essential quality and character of the human being (i.e., humanity). The findings suggest a need for a new field of research, i.e., focusing on sustainable digital societies and environments, in which the identification, analysis, and management of vulnerabilities and unseens emerging in the sociotechnical digital transition play an important role.Keywords: digital transformation; digital curtain; digital vaulting; unintended side effects (unseens), proposition-based expert round tables Scope and Goals Digitalization as a Main Driver of Human Socio-Cultural EvolutionThe digital revolution comprises one of the major transitions of human development. We may consider it to be as critical as the mastery of fire, the development of lang...

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Section: A102 Digital Threats Related To Democracy (Proposition 2mentioning

confidence: 99%

Unintended Side Effects of the Digital Transition: European Scientists’ Messages from a Proposition-Based Expert Round Table

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“…The ongoing expansion of AI in developing countries in public and private spheres has been broadly accompanied by three primary kinds of policy debates and policy action. A first kind of policy debate seeks to address the increased privatization of the internet, which is contrary to the once open system that it was conceived and set up to be (see for example, Garrity, 2017; Canazza, 2018). Key questions here have centred around the rise of superstar firms (a technological phenomenon where in key high technology sectors, especially in the new data economy, the winner firm/ firms walk away with all market rents), 5.…”

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Governing Artificial Intelligence in an Age of Inequality

Sampath

2021

Global Policy

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This article seeks to position both AI‐based activities, and related policy developments, in the global South in light of a technology industry with desires for continuous expansion and self‐governance. The article proceeds along three themes. First, using field interviews and related information (in an anonymised manner), the article classifies expanding AI activities in several core sectors by businesses, governments and other agencies in the global South into three categories. Next, it reviews the current AI policy priorities and positions in developing countries, showing how the introduction of AI has been punctuated by considerations of digital cannibalization by large firms from the North at the expense of a full‐fledged debate on privacy and data protection. By showing how AI exemplifies structural inequality in the global South, the article identifies four critical departure points in developing countries that make the expanding use of AI a matter of concern. While many of challenges posed by AI are somewhat universal, the article argues that their ramifications can be much worse in the global South. Countering these will require policy frameworks that factor in privacy protection in a more accountable manner. It concludes with suggestions for a more nuanced debate on industrialisation, privacy protection and development.

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“…Представляется неслучайным факт того, что именно развитие цифровых технологий, в основе своей опирающихся на технологические возможности сети Интернет, вызвало к жизни новый тип национального стратегирования. Как отмечается рядом авторов Garrity, 2017), Интернет сейчас 1 Непосредственным стимулом для пробуждения интереса автора к проблеме стал опыт консультирования при создании программы «Цифровой Туркменистан» по заказу ПРООН в 2018 году.…”

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National Digital Economy Programs of the Middle East Countries

Korovkin¹

2019

Ars Adm.

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Getting Connected: The Internet and Its Role as a Global Public Good

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Unintended Side Effects of the Digital Transition: European Scientists’ Messages from a Proposition-Based Expert Round Table

Unintended Side Effects of the Digital Transition: European Scientists’ Messages from a Proposition-Based Expert Round Table

Governing Artificial Intelligence in an Age of Inequality

National Digital Economy Programs of the Middle East Countries

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