are able to share content or provide or generate content and data online you will be creating wealth in the future i think maybe this is something that all our nations should be looking at instead of allowing the national international com one very deciding why did they do with our data that should belong to our own national sovereignty again because you know you look at the systems like retailers united nations before you join plan international as a c.e.o. you also work for the do this foreign ministry how do you see i mean technology can be leveraged to do to decrease inequality if you have access to it as we find missing examples of that that really does the balance lie between public policy and unleashing entrepreneurial skills within the society to kind of increase financial inclusion. so there is no doubt that there will be huge benefits also for the bottom billion with the technology advancements but it has to
what about you know image of inequality well you may have inequality for me and perhaps i m a bit different from what. shat so imagine if you and i will change if you have the ability to get into the public about speech most of the time it s not designed to be able friends are based on your own standards and the moment you get off the bus that s no shelter at bus stop and if it s raining assuming imagine that you have to will yourself back home for two hours interesting to me that s real inequality that s we have a different a very aspect something the quality won t be discussed here now one thing is clear that as i mentioned despite the fact that our zeal to see a record of growth in the last twenty years inequality has risen i still have done a lot of luck only in the quality know what the figures that i read is that the richest person in libya. in one day what s the poorest man in the bottom decade
a center for research advisory and technology and do council and fourteen you ll see in founded an organization a grassroots movement to help flood victims in that instance and in. malaysia welcome to you from the engine development bank we have a graph now the vice president southeast asia and the pacific he s responsible for setting up strategic and operational priorities in a variety of means he s done extensive research and written reports a number of nations including inequality it s a great pleasure to have unobligated understand she is one of the core chance of the world economic forum summit here in hanoi. all of plan international spent twenty five years of experience of development in humanitarian affairs it also being the danish foreign ministry thank you very much for being read to and from indonesia we have now the mark on him he s the c.e.o.
a concern well first i ll be asleep all the stories that we just shared on what inequality means to us that it s you know that it s hard it s difficult it s not fair but at the same time just from a pure economic standpoint it s not an efficient use both human capital and resources that are at the disposal of any economy so it actually has a negative return to the potential of economic growth over time but it also has a negative impact on on social cohesion over time and i think that what we ve seen in a lot of after all cycles. in the united states in europe in the nation countries elsewhere are reflections of people that feel that they ve been left behind by many many decades of good economic growth around the world so you ve talked to some of the major implications off in equality for india on it because if we don t do you talked about this disappointed look in the eyes of young guys this month going to be a point in form of inequality but tell us a little bit more as to how it equa
as we see an increase in public and private transport what we re also seeing is that you also young women feel increasingly unsafe. we have every single urban area in this region eighty percent of girls will say they never feel safe in public spaces. and so there s a there s that part of the inequality in gender when you don t even dare get on one of your taxis because you re worried about harassment and safety not traffic safety although i know that s a big preoccupation in this region but but but sort of personal dignity and integrity safety i think is is something that we have to keep in mind and the other thing that we re seeing with the growth of this nominal digital economy which also obviously gives opportunities to young women is that the digital divide is growing so we are seeing massive new opportunities in technology but mostly for men