Improving data infrastructure helps ensure equitable access for poor people in poor countries
Improving data infrastructure helps ensure equitable access for poor people in poor countries 2021 World Development Report: Data for Better Lives An explosion of data Global data traffic has increased one thousand times over the last 20 years. Data travel thousands of kilometers along this seamless global data infrastructure supply chain at breathtaking speeds of 200,000 kilometers per second—meaning that digital data can, in principle, circle the globe five times within a second. This explosion of data creates an ever-growing demand for data infrastructure. Without modern data infrastruc...
Source: worldbank.org
