Countries of all income levels nurturing a digital economy

focus_digital_economy_shutterstock_dpl_en.jpg © UNESCO The digital market is dominated by 100 or so multinational companies, one-third of which did not exist a decade ago. However, countries of all income levels are developing policies and infrastructure to capitalize on the dynamism of this sector and promote further growth, observes the UNESCO Science Report (2015). To what extent are corporate digital giants driving the development of digital economies around the world? In the first ranking of its kind, UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2017: Investment and the Digital Economy, revealed that…

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