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Regulating the Digital Economy in Africa: Managing Old and New Risks to Economic Governance for Inclusive Opportunities

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dc.contributor.authorBegazo, Tania
dc.contributor.authorStinshoff, Clara
dc.contributor.authorNiesten, Hannelore
dc.contributor.authorPop, Georgiana
dc.contributor.authorChen, Rong
dc.contributor.authorCoelho, Gonçalo
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-29T20:33:04Z
dc.date.available2024-05-29T20:33:04Z
dc.date.issued2024-05-29
dc.description.abstractWhile digital technologies offer enormous benefits to the economy and society, they also expose citizens, firms, and markets to risks. This report focuses on understanding these risks to economic governance of the digital economy in African countries and proposes actions to mitigate them, enhancing the possibility of a virtuous cycle enabled by digital technologies. This report emphasizes risks of unfair and unbalanced market outcomes and misuse of personal and commercial data, complementing the World Bank report Digital Africa: Technological Transformation for Jobs, which focuses on closing the digital divide for households and enterprises. It analyzes the current context of digital market players and government actors along the digital value chain, including characteristics that could limit the development of inclusive, efficient, and competitive markets. The report distinguishes traditional and new risks to robust governance of the digital sector in Africa. Traditional risks affect a fundamental pillar of the digital economy: digital infrastructure that provides connectivity to access digital services. These traditional risks are related to the regulatory governance of digital infrastructure and channels through which the state obtains direct revenues from the sector: taxation and parafiscal fees on digital infrastructure and state-owned and state-linked enterprises. New risks are related to data and data-driven digital services that are essential to digital services applications that can expand the benefits of the digital economy. These new risks are related to unfair market outcomes because of weak competition and misuse of data. Finally, the report presents a framework to assess the level of risks to good economic governance in a country and recommendations to mitigate them.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099051924165027814/P1724171bc956a07d1bfd6105b3a20f7fa8
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/41620
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41620
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGovernance and the Digital Economy in Africa; Volume 2
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subjectECONOMIC GOVERNANCE
dc.subjectDIGITAL ECONOMY
dc.subjectDIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE TAXATION
dc.subjectDATA PROTECTION
dc.subjectSDG 9
dc.titleRegulating the Digital Economy in Africaen
dc.title.subtitleManaging Old and New Risks to Economic Governance for Inclusive Opportunitiesen
dc.typeReport
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.associatedcontenthttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/39491 Digital Africa: Technological Transformation for Jobs
okr.crossref.titleRegulating the Digital Economy in Africa: Managing Old and New Risks to Economic Governance for Inclusive Opportunities
okr.date.disclosure2024-05-29
okr.date.lastmodified2024-05-20T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work::Other Infrastructure Study
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099051924165027814/P1724171bc956a07d1bfd6105b3a20f7fa8
okr.guid099051924165027814
okr.identifier.docmidP172417-bc956a9a-89c2-4f7d-bfd6-05b3a20f7fa8
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/41620
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34321119
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum34321119
okr.identifier.report190415
okr.import.id4302
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okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099051924165027814/pdf/P1724171bc956a07d1bfd6105b3a20f7fa8.pdfen
okr.region.geographicalAfrica
okr.sectorICT Services,Public Administration - Information and Communications Technologies,Central Government (Central Agencies)
okr.themeFinancial Sector Integrity,Job Creation,Investment and Business Climate,Data Development and Capacity Building,Financial Stability,ICT,State-owned Enterprise Reform and Privatization,ICT Solutions,Finance,Private Sector Development,Regulation and Competition Policy,Public Sector Management,E-Government, incl. e-services,Jobs,Business Enabling Environment,Data production, accessibility and use,Transparency, Accountability and Good Governance,Public Administration
okr.topicInformation and Communication Technologies::ICT Applications
okr.topicInfrastructure Economics and Finance::Infrastructure Economics
okr.unitEFI-AFR2-GOV-FM & PS-2 (EAWG2)
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