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FourthIndustrial Revolution?
Alison GillwaldExecutive Director, Research ICT AricaAdjunct Professor: University of Cape Town
AFRICAN INTERNET GOVERNANCE SCHOOLN’DJAMENA, 9 September 2019
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•Reinvented by Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum (WEF), 4IR technologies are presented as having the potential to propel digitally-ready countries into a new age of unprecedented economic prosperity.
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•WEF’s appropriation of the concept has arguably been one the most successful lobbying and policy influence instruments of our time. •despite technological determinism
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With visions of global prosperity, packaged with futurist conviction and fantastical economic forecasts of exponential growth and job creation, they appear to provide a ready roadmap in an uncertain future.
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Whose revolution?
• earlier industrial revolutions will show that they have not been associated with the interests of the working or underclasses.
• despite the broader benefits to society from the introduction of steam, electricity and digitisation.
• associated with the advancement of capitalism, through the “big” tech of the day.
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Kondratiev Wave• little to link the WEF’s reductionist conception of industrial
development with the rich school of thought that has examined complex and revolutionary change over time. • intellectual origins of the subject lie with Nikolai
Dmitriyevich Kondratiev. In 1926, he identified waves and shifts in capitalism as it matured over time• popularised intellectually by the Austrian political
economist Joseph Schumpeter’s notion of “creative destruction • underpins much of the contemporary theory on innovation
also informs thinking about disruption as a potentially positive economic and social force. • So far, six Kondratiev waves are identified in the literature.
Information and communication technologies is the fifth. Renewable energy is proposed as the sixth.
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Job creation, productivity, growth?nothing inherent in so-called 4IR technologies that will necessarily result in economic growth, job creation or empowerment of the marginalised.• Evidence from the so-called third IR tells us we should not take
for granted that technology will translate into wage or productivity growth. • Nor will it necessarily generate “decent work”.• first develop a good set of complementary policies, both as
business and government, to reap the benefits of these increasingly pervasive advanced technologies.
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Labour benefits uneven…
Shifts of income from labour to capital and the drop in mid-level jobs in many countries suggest that the gains from greater use of technology may not be equitably shared.
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•Although disruptive aspects, more evolutionary acknowledged•One continuity is inequality…
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Without complementary investments in the skills that workers, producers, citzens need to leverage the internet, automation, AI, robotics will exacerbate inequality…
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Digital inequality paradox….
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Address digital inequality will require addressing structural inequality….long term multi-generational policies
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• What does 4IR mean in Africa with large informal economy, limited public infrastructure, technical skills levels are low and advanced technology can be found in only a few sectors that are dominated by foreign multinational companies and staffed by expatriate workers? • What is the relevance of policy development towards the 4IR in
the region given its young population profile, and emerging skill shortages in key sectors?
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Preconditions of digital economy
What is required to harness opportunities of digital economies and mitigate risks?
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Dangers of cutting and pasting ‘best practice’ from mature, competitive markets, mature democracies, capable states and capacitated institutions…
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Public, public-private, civil society co-ordination
•Large scale job generation requires requires capable state co-ordination to scale and be globally competitive•Leverage private sector delivery of public goods•Global governance of global public goods such as the Internet•Multistakeholderism
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Connectivity gap vs usage gap…
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Critical mass and network effects...
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Consumptive vs production use…
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Meeting pent up demand vs. demand stimulation
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Human development at heart of structural inequality…
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Analogue vs digital conditions…
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Risks in the absence of analogue complements
Source: WDR 2016
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The quality of complements and technology rises with incomes
Source: WDR 2016
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….exponential technological development and increasing dependency on connectivity for positive social and economic national outcomes.
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Absence of rights framework for new economy policies and practices..
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Enabling environment for inclusion and innovation
Political stability rule of law, institutional arrangements, regulatory certainty, effectively regulated competitive markets…. Regulation 0.1 to 0.3
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Complex adaptive systems
…disruptive competition …no longer linear value chains but complex adaptive systems that innovate to circumvent bottlenecks
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From sector/competition to complex adaptive regulation
‘Best practice’ and old measurement instruments no longer appropriate especially for predominantly pre-paid mobile market in Africa
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Alternative policies, strategies
access strategies, business plans, licensing regimes
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State coordination of public and private sector to leverage private sector, civil society skills …
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Cross- sector regulation, telecommunications, power, financial regulation, information, e-taxation…
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Requiring complex adaptive regulation….
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Dangers of instrumental competition regulation (static efficiency) in complex adaptive global systems and markets…
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Interests around OTT regulation, zero rating service…
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Intersection of interests between rent seeking governments (retrogressive/sin taxes) particularly social networking and mobile money taxes and political and social control…
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Data justice and trust… marginalisedmost vulnerable to online exploitation…
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Data governance
New data governance… Algorithm transparency, regulation, understand use of personal data, reveal biases…
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Data governance
Include rights framework for cyberpolicy…. cybersecurity, data protection, limitations on surveillance… right to information, freedom of expression
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Data justice
More than data governance to bring vulnerable groups online…•Biometric ID,•Cash/airtime payments to refugees
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Data as a resource as an asset… data regulation and governance
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Central to creating enabling digital ecosystem necessary for social and economic inclusion… investment, job creation, innovation.
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Extracting public value –demand side valuation of public goods.
Data as a public good…. non- rivalrous non-exclusionary …
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Open data with private information protections for policy, planning, innovation …
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Open data with private information protections for policy, planning, innovation …
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Develop alternative strategies that acknowledge institutional and capacity limitations, draw on tradition of innovation from constraint, improve state coordination and incorporate demand side valuation into resource allocation to scale and to enable inclusion in short term.