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-Global data traffic has increased one thousand times over the last 20 years.

-Data infrastructure policy helps to make the modern data economy more equal.

-The World Development Report 2021, Data for Better Lives seeks to highlight and address inequalities with regards to data connectivity.

-This includes helping countries have access to modern data infrastructure to ensure reliable and affordable connectivity for their population.

 
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.

Data Infrastructure policy, one of the building blocks of a data governance framework, helps to level the playing field in the modern data economy making things more equitable. Without modern data infrastructure at the national level, countries are unable to provide affordable and reliable connectivity to their population. At the same time, without access to broadband infrastructure at the local level, people cannot gain access to the wealth of data that exists, nor can data about those people be captured—so that their needs and preferences can be taken into account in the design and provision of public and private services. The World Development Report 2021, Data for Better Lives advocates for improving fairness in the global data system by addressing inequities in the availability of data infrastructure, both inequities between people and inequities between countries.

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Πηγή: weforum.org