(The 4th CIIE) Depth｜What "pits" should the digital economy avoid in shaping the future world?
China News Service, Shanghai, November 8th, title: Depth | What "pits" should the digital economy avoid in shaping the future world?
China News Agency reporter Xia Bin
The digital economy represented by the Internet, big data, cloud computing, blockchain, artificial intelligence, etc. accelerates the innovation and development, and is increasingly integrated into various fields and the entire process of the global economy and society, and has become a key element resource and an important force in reshaping the future world .
According to market research agency IDC, the output value of the digital economy will account for 62% of global GDP by 2023.
This puts forward new requirements for the digital economy: it cannot be "out of control" during rapid growth!
At the 4th CIIE held here, many participants gave "Guidelines for Avoiding Pitfalls."
The digital economy must be truly inclusive.
Numbers are shared and therefore universal, but this requires infrastructure and quality capabilities as support.
In the digital age, only by recognizing the nature and value of data can we find the direction and method of rational use.
"The digital economy is not naturally inclusive." Gong Ke, chairman of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), said that data can be shared. This is just one aspect that everyone sees. If there is no ability to collect and use data, for example, There is no way to talk about the real inclusiveness of the Internet.
He said that the current Internet access rate in the least developed countries is only about 2%. Internet access is not only difficult but also expensive. The goal of the United Nations to "make the global Internet cost less than 2% of total household expenditure" is still a long way to go.
As a result, the digital infrastructure gap should be bridged, especially in African countries, especially sub-Saharan regions.
Wang Jincheng, member of the Standing Committee of the China Association for Science and Technology, proposed that digital literacy should be continuously improved to help achieve social inclusive and inclusive development.
By developing high-quality science education, launching popular science activities involving all sectors of society, expanding the coverage of science and technology dissemination, greatly improving the science and technology literacy of the whole society, and allowing more people to share the results of digitalization.
The digital economy must avoid winner-takes-all.
The use of open data is not only a necessary price for users to enjoy "free" services and enter the digital world, but also a bargaining chip and resource for platform companies to gain monopoly status and create future value.
Hao Cheng, vice president of the Bank of Communications, pointed out that due to economies of scale and the need to build a scene ecosystem, the platform economy with e-commerce and consumer Internet as the main content naturally has an ecosystem of mergers and acquisitions expansion, showing a “winner takes all” and high The characteristics of market concentration.
"This leads to the proposition of monopoly and anti-monopoly in the development of the digital economy." Hao Cheng, for example, said that in China, the market concentration of mobile payment, search engines, online music, e-commerce live broadcasts and other industries exceeds 90%, and online car-hailing , Online retail concentration is also above 80%.
He suggested that the implementation of classified and hierarchical supervision of the platform economy, the use of multi-party security and privacy computing technologies, etc., promote "data equal rights" to ensure that data is not exclusively owned by large platform companies, and promote the realization of fairness, inclusiveness, and inclusiveness. , Sustainable development based on shared responsibility.
The digital economy must be green and low-carbon.
The invisible data flow is like cars in the digital world, and the emerging formats of the digital economy also need to pay attention to low-carbon transformation.
It is predicted that the global data center energy consumption will increase from 670 billion kWh in 2020 to 950 billion kWh in 2025, accounting for about 3% of the world's total electricity consumption. Data center energy conservation and emission reduction have also become the industry’s problem. important topic.
Gong Ke said that when we develop digital technology, we must take energy efficiency, energy consumption, and carbon reduction as a very important requirement.
"Our digital technology must not only be applied to transportation, to manufacturing, and to all aspects that can optimize energy supply to reduce energy consumption, but its own development should also become sustainable." Gong Ke hopes that on the one hand, the future A considerable part of sustainable, green and renewable energy can be used in the digital economy, and on the other hand, new technologies can be used to solve digital electronic waste and enter the recycling channel.
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