April 7, 2021
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Do we need a Paris Agreement for tech? Here’s what world leaders and tech chiefs say
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum.
Author: Gayle Markovitz, Editor, World Economic Forum
The potential for emerging tech to solve the world’s most pressing issues is equal to the challenge of mitigating the risks. These range from ethical issues to privacy and cybersecurity to freedom of speech.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has further highlighted the need to bridge the digital divide, as 3.7 billion people now live without basic internet connectivity, experts say.
The health crisis has exposed the structural weaknesses in the global digital inclusion agenda, bringing to the fore increasing inequalities between and within the countries, according to experts at an online panel discussion at the World Economic Forum’s Global Technology Governance Summit.
“In the past months, we have witnessed the essential role that access to good connectivity and digital services play during a crisis situation,” Bocar Ba, chief executive of the South Asia, Middle East and North Africa (Samena) Telecommunications Council, said.
Leaders have an opportunity to scale more than just technological solutions.Â
Leaders have a responsibility to question how tech is designed, developed and implemented to shape a fairer, more responsible world.Â
In the decade ahead, a wave of technological solutions will touch and transform every part of our lives. These new solutions could either tackle existing problems â or exacerbate them while creating others. As tech can scale both progress or harm, the time is now to shape the fair and responsible future we want to live in.Â
Connected risks and opportunities
The world faces a range of challenges regarding people (economic and social well-being) and the planet (climate and biodiversity). These problems are interconnected and at the top of leadersâ minds as they weigh future risks and opportunities.Â
The way we see it, this has to be a suite of measures. Vaccinations are essential but they are not silver bullets, he said. We need that to be complemented by a strong, robust testing regime, as well as effective safe management measures.
He said such solutions will be important going forward, whether it is opening up the economy further or enabling cross-border activity or travels, said Iswaran.
The minister said vaccines are a national priority and will help Singapore get back to pre-Covid levels of economic activity, but that process would involve small steps over time, rather than a big and sudden change.
April 7, 2021
You are here: Home / Business / Zoom chief: Digital tax policy should be a ‘set of carrots’ not sticks
Zoom chief: Digital tax policy should be a ‘set of carrots’ not sticks
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum.
Author: Kate Whiting, Senior Writer, Formative Content
Global tax policy on digital services has to be multilateral – and should be more carrot than stick, Josh Kallmer, Zoom’s Head of Global Public Policy and Government Relations has said.
He was speaking at the World Economic Forum’s Global Technology Governance Summit hosted by Japan.