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Book Toward a Global Approach to Data in the Digital Age

Download or read book Toward a Global Approach to Data in the Digital Age written by Mr. Vikram Haksar and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ongoing economic and financial digitalization is making individual data a key input and source of value for companies across sectors, from bigtechs and pharmaceuticals to manufacturers and financial services providers. Data on human behavior and choices—our “likes,” purchase patterns, locations, social activities, biometrics, and financing choices—are being generated, collected, stored, and processed at an unprecedented scale.

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  • Publisher : International Monetary Fund
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  • Pages : 51 pages

Download or read book written by and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Digital Age

Download or read book The New Digital Age written by Eric Schmidt and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is the most important - and fascinating - book yet written about how the digital age will affect our world' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs From two leading thinkers, the widely anticipated book that describes a new, hugely connected world of the future, full of challenges and benefits which are ours to meet and harness. The New Digital Age is the product of an unparalleled collaboration: full of the brilliant insights of one of Silicon Valley's great innovators - what Bill Gates was to Microsoft and Steve Jobs was to Apple, Schmidt (along with Larry Page and Sergey Brin) was to Google - and the Director of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen, formerly an advisor to both Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Never before has the future been so vividly and transparently imagined. From technologies that will change lives (information systems that greatly increase productivity, safety and our quality of life, thought-controlled motion technology that can revolutionise medical procedures, and near-perfect translation technology that allows us to have more diversified interactions) to our most important future considerations (curating our online identity and fighting those who would do harm with it) to the widespread political change that will transform the globe (through transformations in conflict, increasingly active and global citizenries, a new wave of cyber-terrorism and states operating simultaneously in the physical and virtual realms) to the ever present threats to our privacy and security, Schmidt and Cohen outline in great detail and scope all the promise and peril awaiting us in the coming decades. A breakthrough book - pragmatic, inspirational and totally fascinating. Whether a government, a business or an individual, we must understand technology if we want to understand the future. 'A brilliant guidebook for the next century . . . Schmidt and Cohen offer a dazzling glimpse into how the new digital revolution is changing our lives' Richard Branson

Book Data Enclaves

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  • Author : Kean Birch
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2023-12-11
  • ISBN : 3031464028
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Data Enclaves written by Kean Birch and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on our increasing dependence upon Big Tech to live, manage, and enjoy our lives. The author examines how we freely exchange our personal data for access to online platforms, services, and devices without proper consideration of the implications of this trade. Our personal data is the defining resource of the emerging digital economy, and it is increasingly concentrated in a few data enclaves controlled by Big Tech firms, cementing an increasingly parasitic form of technoscientific innovation. Big Tech controls access to these data, dictates the terms of our use of their services and products, and controls the future development of key technologies like artificial intelligence. The contention of this book is that we need to rethink our political and policy approach to data governance and to do so requires unpacking the peculiarities of personal data and how personal data are transformed into a valuable asset.

Book Going Digital to Advance Data Governance for Growth and Well being

Download or read book Going Digital to Advance Data Governance for Growth and Well being written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data are generated wherever digital technologies are deployed namely, in almost every part of modern life. Using these data can empower individuals, drive innovation, enable new digital products and improve policy making and public service delivery.

Book Data Sovereignty

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  • Author : Anupam Chander
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2023
  • ISBN : 0197582796
  • Pages : 409 pages

Download or read book Data Sovereignty written by Anupam Chander and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The internet was supposed to end sovereignty. "Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, you have no sovereignty where we gather," John Perry Barlow famously declared. Sovereignty would prove impossible over a world of bits, with the internet simply routing around futile controls. But reports of the death of sovereignty over the internet proved premature. Consider recent events"--

Book The Digital Revolution in Banking  Insurance and Capital Markets

Download or read book The Digital Revolution in Banking Insurance and Capital Markets written by Lech Gąsiorkiewicz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital transformation of finance and banking enables traditional services to be delivered in a more effective and efficient way but, at the same time, presents crucial issues such as fast-growing new asset classes, new currencies, datafication and data privacy, algorithmization of law and regulation and, last but not least, new models of financial crime. This book approaches the evolution of digital finance from a business perspective and in a holistic way, providing cutting-edge knowledge of how the digital financial system works in its three main domains: banking, insurance and capital markets. It offers a bird’s-eye view of the major issues and developments in these individual sectors. The book begins by examining the wider framework of the subsequent analysis and over the next three parts, discusses the opportunities, risks and challenges facing the digitalization of these individual financial subsectors, highlighting the similarities and differences in their digitalization agenda, as well as the existing linkages and dependencies among them. The book clarifies the strategic issues facing the development of digital finance in these major subsectors over the coming years. The book has three key messages: that digital transformation changes fundamentally the way financial businesses operate; that individual trades have their own digitalization agenda; and that the state with its regulatory power and central banking and money has a particularly important role to play. It will be of interest to scholars, students and researchers of finance andbanking, as well as policymakers wishing to understand the values and limitations of new forms of digital money.

Book Overarching Strategy on Data and Statistics at the Fund in the Digital Age

Download or read book Overarching Strategy on Data and Statistics at the Fund in the Digital Age written by International Monetary Fund. Strategy, Policy, & Review Department and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first data and statistics strategy for the Fund comes at a critical time. A fast-changing data landscape, new data needs for evolving surveillance priorities, and persisting data weaknesses across the membership pose challenges and opportunities for the Fund and its members. The challenges emerging from the digital revolution include an unprecedented amount of new data and measurement questions on growth, productivity, inflation, and welfare. Newly available granular and high-frequency (big) data offer the potential for more timely detection of vulnerabilities. In the wake of the crisis, Fund surveillance requires greater cross-country data comparability; staff and authorities face the complexity of integrating new data sources and closing data gaps, while working to address the weaknesses noted by the IEO Report (Behind the Scenes with Data at the IMF) in 2016. The overarching strategy is to move toward an ecosystem of data and statistics that enables the Fund and its members to better meet the evolving data needs in a digital world. It integrates Fund-wide work streams on data provision to the Fund for surveillance purposes, international statistical standards, capacity development, and data management under a common institutional objective. It seeks seamless access and sharing of data within the Fund, enabling cloud-based data dissemination to support data provision by member countries (e.g., the “global data commons”), closing data gaps with new sources including Big Data, and improving assessments of data adequacy for surveillance to help better prioritize capacity development. The Fund also will work with policymakers to understand the implications of the digital economy and digital data for the macroeconomic statistics, including new measures of welfare beyond GDP."

Book Data Economy in the Digital Age

Download or read book Data Economy in the Digital Age written by Samiksha Shukla and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a comprehensive guide that explores the concept of data economy and its implications in today's world. The book discusses the principles and components of the ecosystem, the challenges and opportunities presented by data monetization, and the potential risks related to data privacy. Real-life examples and case studies are included to understand the concepts better. The book is suitable for individuals in data science, economics, business, and technology and for students, academics, and policymakers. It is an excellent read for anyone interested in the data economy.

Book Work in the Digital Age

Download or read book Work in the Digital Age written by Max Neufeind and published by Policy Network. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to explore the emerging consequences of the so called '4th Industrial Revolution for the organisation of work and welfare.

Book The Rise and Impact of Fintech in Latin America

Download or read book The Rise and Impact of Fintech in Latin America written by Mr. Bas B. Bakker and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2023-03-29 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, fintech has shaken up the financial sector in Latin America providing innovations in lending, payments, insurance, and regulation and compliance. This paper examines this development by focusing on both fintech services and regulation. Exploring fintech’s macro-critical impact using country- and bank-level data, we find that booming financial technologies in Latin America have helped boost competition in the banking sector and inclusion. Additionally, we demonstrate that fintech firms in Latin America experienced robust growth even during the pandemic supported by external funding. Finally, we discuss how regulators are addressing the risks associated with financial technologies and how they are leveraging fintech tools in their supervisory activities.

Book Systems Engineering for the Digital Age

Download or read book Systems Engineering for the Digital Age written by Dinesh Verma and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 901 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systems Engineering for the Digital Age Comprehensive resource presenting methods, processes, and tools relating to the digital and model-based transformation from both technical and management views Systems Engineering for the Digital Age: Practitioner Perspectives covers methods and tools that are made possible by the latest developments in computational modeling, descriptive modeling languages, semantic web technologies, and describes how they can be integrated into existing systems engineering practice, how best to manage their use, and how to help train and educate systems engineers of today and the future. This book explains how digital models can be leveraged for enhancing engineering trades, systems risk and maturity, and the design of safe, secure, and resilient systems, providing an update on the methods, processes, and tools to synthesize, analyze, and make decisions in management, mission engineering, and system of systems. Composed of nine chapters, the book covers digital and model-based methods, digital engineering, agile systems engineering, improving system risk, and more, representing the latest insights from research in topics related to systems engineering for complicated and complex systems and system-of-systems. Based on validated research conducted via the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), this book provides the reader a set of pragmatic concepts, methods, models, methodologies, and tools to aid the development of digital engineering capability within their organization. Systems Engineering for the Digital Age: Practitioner Perspectives includes information on: Fundamentals of digital engineering, graphical concept of operations, and mission and systems engineering methods Transforming systems engineering through integrating M&S and digital thread, and interactive model centric systems engineering The OODA loop of value creation, digital engineering measures, and model and data verification and validation Digital engineering testbed, transformation, and implications on decision making processes, and architecting tradespace analysis in a digital engineering environment Expedited systems engineering for rapid capability and learning, and agile systems engineering framework Based on results and insights from a research center and providing highly comprehensive coverage of the subject, Systems Engineering for the Digital Age: Practitioner Perspectives is written specifically for practicing engineers, program managers, and enterprise leadership, along with graduate students in related programs of study.

Book Digital Finance and the Future of the Global Financial System

Download or read book Digital Finance and the Future of the Global Financial System written by Lech Gąsiorkiewicz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth analysis of the most salient features of contemporary financial systems and clarifies the major strategic issues facing the development of digital finance. It provides insight into how the digital finance system actually works in a socioeconomic context. It presents three key messages: that digital transformation will change the financial system entirely, that the State has a particularly important role to play in the whole process and that consumers will be offered more opportunities and freedom but simultaneously will be exposed to more risk and challenges. The book is divided into four parts. It begins by laying down the fundamentals of the subsequent analysis and offers a deep understanding of digital finance, including a topology of the key technologies applied in the transformation process. The next part reviews the challenges facing the digital State in the new reality, the digitalization of public finance and the development of digitally relevant taxation systems. In the third part, digital consumer aspects are discussed. The final part examines the risks and challenges of digital finance. The authors focus their attention on three key developments in financial markets: accelerated growth in terms of the importance of algorithms, replacing existing legal regulations; the expansion of cyber risk and its growing impact and finally the emergence of new dimensions of systemic risk as a side effect of financial digitalization. The authors supplement the analysis with a discussion of how these new risks and challenges are monitored and mitigated by financial supervision. The book is a useful, accessible guide to students and researchers of finance, finance and technology, regulations and compliance in finance.

Book Beyond Digital

Download or read book Beyond Digital written by Paul Leinwand and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two world-renowned strategists detail the seven leadership imperatives for transforming companies in the new digital era. Digital transformation is critical. But winning in today's world requires more than digitization. It requires understanding that the nature of competitive advantage has shifted—and that being digital is not enough. In Beyond Digital, Paul Leinwand and Matt Mani from Strategy&, PwC's global strategy consulting business, take readers inside twelve companies and how they have navigated through this monumental shift: from Philips's reinvention from a broad conglomerate to a focused health technology player, to Cleveland Clinic's engagement with its broader ecosystem to improve and expand its leading patient care to more locations around the world, to Microsoft's overhaul of its global commercial business to drive customer outcomes. Other case studies include Adobe, Citigroup, Eli Lilly, Hitachi, Honeywell, Inditex, Komatsu, STC Pay, and Titan. Building on a major new body of research, the authors identify the seven imperatives that leaders must follow as the digital age continues to evolve: Reimagine your company's place in the world Embrace and create value via ecosystems Build a system of privileged insights with your customers Make your organization outcome-oriented Invert the focus of your leadership team Reinvent the social contract with your people Disrupt your own leadership approach Together, these seven imperatives comprise a playbook for how leaders can define a bolder purpose and transform their organizations.

Book Global Digital Data Governance

Download or read book Global Digital Data Governance written by Carolina Aguerre and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary digital data governance, highlighting the importance of cooperation across sectors and disciplines in order to adapt to a rapidly evolving technological landscape. Most of the theory around global digital data governance remains scattered and focused on specific actors, norms, processes, or disciplinary approaches. This book argues for a polycentric approach, allowing readers to consider the issue across multiple disciplines and scales. Polycentrism, this book argues, provides a set of lenses that tie together the variety of actors, issues, and processes intertwined in digital data governance at subnational, national, regional, and global levels. Firstly, this approach uncovers the complex array of power centers and connections in digital data governance. Secondly, polycentric perspectives bridge disciplinary divides, challenging assumptions and drawing together a growing range of insights about the complexities of digital data governance. Bringing together a wide range of case studies, this book draws out key insights and policy recommendations for how digital data governance occurs and how it might occur differently. Written by an international and interdisciplinary team, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in the field of development studies, political science, international relations, global studies, science and technology studies, sociology, and media and communication studies.

Book Towards a Digital Ecology

Download or read book Towards a Digital Ecology written by Victoria Betton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-02-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards a Digital Health Ecology : NHS Digital Adoption through the COVID-19 Looking Glass is about technology adoption in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) as told from the inflection point of a disaster. In 2020 the world lived through a disaster of epic proportions, devastating humanity around the globe. It took a microscopic virus to wreak havoc on our healthcare system and force the adoption of technology in a way that had never been seen before. This book tells the story of digital technology take-up in the NHS through the lens of that disaster. This book documents use of technology in the NHS through the lens of the first pandemic shock. Our healthcare system, paid for by general taxation and free at the point of demand, was conceived and developed in a firmly analogue world. Created in 1948, the NHS predates the invention of the World Wide Web by some forty years. This is not a book simply about technology, it is a study of the painful process of reengineering a mammoth and byzantine system that was built for a different era. The digital health sector is a microcosm of the wider healthcare system, through which grand themes of social inequality, public trust, private versus commercial interests, values and beliefs are played out. The sector is a clash of competing discourses: the civic and doing good for society; the market and wealth creation; the industrial creating more efficient and effective systems; the project expressed as innovation and experimentation; lastly the notion of vitality and leading a happier, healthy life. Each of these discourses exists in a state of flux and tension with the other. This book is offered as a critique of the role of digital technologies within healthcare. It is an examination of competing interests, approaches, and ideologies. It is a story of system complexity told through analysis and personal stories.

Book Industry 4 0 Transformation Towards Industry 5 0 Paradigm   Challenges  Opportunities and Practices

Download or read book Industry 4 0 Transformation Towards Industry 5 0 Paradigm Challenges Opportunities and Practices written by and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-07-03 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industry 4.0 Transformation Towards Industry 5.0 Paradigm - Challenges, Opportunities and Practices critically explores the paradigm change from Industry 4.0's integration of digital technology to Industry 5.0's focus on human-robot collaboration. This book highlights Industry 5.0, the aim of which is to merge human intelligence with robotic capabilities to enhance efficiency and sustainability. This shift entails integrating Industry 5.0 technologies like collaborative robots and Human Digital Twins into production processes for safer and more efficient collaboration. Industry 4.0's influence on the tourism sector highlights the need for human-centric approaches and updated education to transition to the digital tourism era. Similarly, the construction sector, under Construction 4.0, faces organizational challenges in adopting technology. The Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework identifies decision-making factors to facilitate this transition. Transportation 5.0 represents a transformative shift towards Cyber-Physical-Social Transportation Systems, prioritizing ethical and sustainable solutions. It harnesses advanced technologies to improve transportation efficiency while considering social impacts. Nano and Society 5.0 explore nanotechnology's role in advancing societal goals, from personalized health care to sustainable energy. Digital entrepreneurship, propelled by Industry 4.0, faces challenges and opportunities amidst technological evolution and the pandemic's effects. In education, Online Distance e-Learning (OdeL) practices leverage digitalization for interactive learning, emphasizing critical thinking and industry-relevant skills. Overall, Industry 5.0 represents a holistic transformation driven by human intelligence, technology, and sustainability. This book serves as a guide for navigating this transition, providing insights for industry professionals, policymakers, and researchers. It explores the integration of automation with human-centric methods, fostering efficiency, creativity, and sustainability.