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20 News the Newsbehind JULY 08, 2019face acute digital dependencies on
their respective digital overlord (US
or China), as the latter controls data-
driven digital intelligence running
their various sectors.”
With the outlook being so dismal,
Singh says “countries like India
should explore the combination of
a geopolitical approach of digital
non-alignment, with a practical one
of diligently promoting open digital
value chains.
“Digital non-alignment implies
deliberate economic and political
investments to avoid getting too
closely hooked to either of the digital
superpower’s digital products and
services. Its technical, policy-legal
and business model complement is to
establish open digital value chains.”
Most importantly, “India needs a
strong domestic digital industry in
most, if not all, key links of the digital
value chain. We are increasingly being
left with digital economy’s physical
elements — cars, drivers, logistics,
manufacturing, hospitals, schools, and
so on. Th e data driven digital brain
at the top of the digital value chain
in every sector is either in the US
(largely) or China.....
“What is required is a strong
and clear-headed digital industrial
policy, which aims foremost at the
layer of highest value: data. After all,
the most important data needed to
manage various sectors in India is
local — arising from us and about us.
Th is provides the basis for claiming
legal ownership over such data,
and channelling it for development
of Indian digital industry. India’s
draft e-commerce policy attempts
precisely that through the concepts
of community data and national
data. It also proposes adequate legal
and technical frameworks to make
such data available for India’s digital
development.”
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