In recent years, an idea has spread throughout the world that economies are poised on the cusp of a major technological revolution, unlike anything in the past, that will lead to unprecedented job destruction, high rates of unemployment and massive increases in inequality. This chapter examines...

The adoption of a Global Digital Compact (GDC) as one of the outcomes of the Summit of the Future opens up the opportunity to address in a systematic manner issues that are of critical importance for the digital global governance. It also poses a challenge to developing countries, as most of...