Promoting open and inclusive connectivity: The case for digital development cooperation

Okano-Heijmans, Maaike; Vosse, Wilhelm

doi:10.1016/j.resglo.2021.100061

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“…There is a growing research interest in security and defence policy, i.e., the realm from which SA originates [11,[28][29][30]. But scholars have also analysed the application of (open) SA to further policy areas that have security implications, mainly trade [14,20,24,31,32], strategic technologies and digitalisation [11,[33][34][35], and energy [9,36].…”

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The Role of Strategic Autonomy in the EU Green Transition

Paleari

2024

Sustainability

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The European Green Deal (EGD) is the cornerstone of a strategic package (EGD Strategic Framework; EGDSF), which aims to make the EU a climate-neutral and competitive economy by 2050. The green transition planned by the EGD has been affected by relevant external shocks, which have highlighted Europe’s vulnerabilities in key strategic sectors. In this context, EU strategic autonomy (SA) has increasingly become a recurring element of the EGDSF. This article aims to provide a better understanding of the role of SA within the EGDSF and investigate whether it supports the EGD’s environmental ambitions. Based on an in-depth qualitative analysis of the EGDSF, it examines the specific purposes that, via SA, the EU wants to achieve and provides a categorisation of the related implementation measures. It emerges that SA objectives embedded into the EGDSF have been shaped in support of EGD goals but that some trade-offs may arise depending on the implementation measures selected to meet the former. In particular, current measures that promote self-sufficiency and the extension of environmental requirements to foreign businesses/products accessing the EU market raise some environmental, economic, and social concerns, which can be partly addressed through a stronger and more comprehensive EGD external dimension.

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The Role of Strategic Autonomy in the EU Green Transition

Paleari

2024

Sustainability

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“…On the one hand, the emergence of the internet has reshaped operational and organizational structures, deflating spatial and temporal constraints and enabling greater automation of traditional manufacturing processed, leading to lower production costs, and higher productivity [ 14 , 17 , 18 ]. On the other hand, the digital economy promotes connectivity, mere sharing and innovative collaboration between economic agents, thus promoting digital technology empowerment [ 19 , 20 , 21 ]. With technological innovation as the driving force of economic action, the digital economy faces a broader scope for development against the backdrop of the ongoing advancement of global sustainable development goals.…”

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Spatial Effect of Digital Economy on Particulate Matter 2.5 in the Process of Smart Cities: Evidence from Prefecture-Level Cities in China

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2022

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the digital economy has developed rapidly. The airborne nature of COVID-19 viruses has attracted worldwide attention. Therefore, it is of great significance to analyze the impact of the digital economy on particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) emissions. The research sample of this paper include 283 prefecture-level cities in China from 2011 to 2019 in China. Spatial Durbin model was adopted to explore the spatial spillover effect of digital economy on PM2.5 emissions. In addition, considering the impact of smart city pilot (SCP) policy, a spatial difference-in-differences (SDID) model was used to analyze policy effects. The estimation results indicated that (1) the development of the digital economy significantly reduces PM2.5 emissions. (2) The spatial spillover effect of the digital economy significantly reduces PM2.5 emissions in neighboring cities. (3) Smart city construction increases PM2.5 emissions in neighboring cities. (4) The reduction effect of the digital economy on PM2.5 is more pronounced in the sample of eastern cities and urban agglomerations.

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“…), Google, Amazon) и китайских (например, Huawei, ZTE, Alibaba) технологических компаний за цифровые рынки государств «Глобального Юга» и формирование «цифровой геополитики» (Ефременко, 2020). В рамках этого процесса компании стремятся сформировать контролируемую ими инфраструктуру, прежде всего в стратегически значимом Индо-Тихоокеанском регионе (Okano-Heijmans & Vosse, 2021).…”

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Strategies for Digital Development of Key States of the Global South in the Context of U.S.-Chinese Technological Rivalry

Столетов

2022

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Meždunar. otnoš.

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The article examines the strategies of the states of the Global South in the field of digital development in the context of technological rivalry between the United States of America and China. The main peculiarities of the U.S.-Chinese technological rivalry at the present stage are characterized. The U.S.-Chinese technological rivalry is considered as a factor influencing the development and implementation of national digital development strategies by the states of the Global South, which provide for the intensification of international cooperation in priority areas. The international political aspects of the implementation of digital development strategies of the most significant dynamically developing states of the Global South located in important international regions (Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America) are studied. Attention is paid primarily to such strategic areas of digital development of the considered states of the Global South, as digital data processing and storage systems, digital data transmission systems, new generation mobile communication technologies, space programs, digital commerce, integrated “smart city” technologies, technologies cybersecurity. The paper explores the strategic approaches of the considered countries of the Global South in relation to digital cooperation with the United States and China. The interaction of the considered states in the digital sphere with technologically advanced countries acting as alternative technological partners (Japan, leading European countries, the Republic of Korea, Israel, Russia) is analyzed. The study identifies and characterizes the most significant digital projects of foreign corporations implemented jointly with the countries under consideration. The features of international cooperation in the digital sphere between the key countries of the Global South within the international regions defined in the study, as well as at the transregional level are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to promising regional international technological projects in the digital sphere. As a result of the study, the main priority areas of foreign policy activities of the key states of the Global South are determined from the point of view of more effective implementation by these states of their digital development strategies. The specific features inherent in the strategies of digital development of the considered states of the Global South are revealed. The author comes to the conclusion that these states, in the context of the U.S.-Chinese technological rivalry, seek to diversify their international ties in the digital sphere, strengthen the technological potential of national digital companies, strengthen national “digital sovereignty,” use their competitive advantages to attract foreign investment in the digital segment of national economies, activate their transport and logistics potential through the introduction of technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, expand digital cooperation with other countries in their international regions, as well as at the transregional level.

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Promoting open and inclusive connectivity: The case for digital development cooperation

Cited by 17 publications

References 6 publications

The Role of Strategic Autonomy in the EU Green Transition

The Role of Strategic Autonomy in the EU Green Transition

Spatial Effect of Digital Economy on Particulate Matter 2.5 in the Process of Smart Cities: Evidence from Prefecture-Level Cities in China

Strategies for Digital Development of Key States of the Global South in the Context of U.S.-Chinese Technological Rivalry

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