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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T110000
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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/digital-emerging-countries-big
 -nations-inward-looking-strategy-and-leapfrog-in-the-global-south/
SUMMARY:Digital Emerging Countries: Big nations\, inward-looking strategy\,
  and leapfrog in the Global South
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Center for African Studies and The Lakshm
 i Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\n\nIn-person talk – Seating is 
 limited. Masks are required for all audience members.\n\nIn India\, three-
 wheeled motorcycle drivers take orders from UBER\, and in an inland Chines
 e village\, telemedicine is becoming more prevalent. Meanwhile\, in Cape T
 own\, South Africa\, female engineers are developing a business plan for a
  mobile application. Today\, digitalization has increasingly surpassed eme
 rging economies. Governments in various countries have established digital
  development initiatives\, and the number of local platform companies is g
 rowing. Despite the rapid and extensive digitalization occurring in the Gl
 obal South\, the literature is concentrated in a global layer and an autho
 ritarian layer (or a Chinese layer). To contextualize a pattern of a wider
  range of developing countries\, this talk proposes a concept of digital e
 merging countries (DECs). Research on the newly industrializing countries 
 (NICs) provides a solid foundation for this conceptualization. NICs have l
 argely rooted in step-by-step outward-looking strategies by East Asian sma
 ll nations (economies). In contrast\, digitalization possesses distinct fe
 atures. First\, population size is relevant because platforms capitalize o
 n domestic market size. Second\, inward-looking strategy is evident\, as a
 uthority can both promote and regulate platforms and engage in digital pro
 tectionism. Third\, leapfrog developments are observed by leveraging domes
 tic potentials. Fourth\, whereas manufacturing supply chains were formed d
 ensely in East Asia\, the digital economy is leaping beyond the spatial co
 nstraints of East Asia. By identifying the fundamental characteristics of 
 DECs\, namely big nations-led\, inward-looking strategy\, and leapfrog dev
 elopment beyond East Asia\, we can gain a clear understanding of digitaliz
 ation in the Global South.
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
LOCATION:Common Room (#136)\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, United S
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