Most fears about the digitisation of government reflect a centuries-old challenge, writes the UCL professor: “how to balance individual freedoms against collective or state interests”
past decade a small but growing number of governments have begun to challenge the assumption that the state is no good at deploying technology at scale. By treating some digital services as public infrastructure, countries from tiny Estonia to giants such as India and Brazil are reimagining what sovereignty and state capacity could look like in a world of bits and bytes.
These priorities take on greater urgency when coupled with a 21st-century phenomenon: a loss of confidence in the tech sector generally and big tech specifically. Emerging markets worry about “data colonisation”, whereby, as large foreign companies collect ever more data, they stretch their lead in innovation, further increasing inequality between countries.
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