Digitalisation is a fundamental global driver of change influencing how we work, what work is valued and our means and media for dialogue and deliberation, which in turn shape how we communicate and think and, ultimately, our cultures.
Understanding and productively navigating the opportunities and threats presented by digitalisation’s widespread impact on communications, economics, values and culture across our diversity of global societies presents a challenge so multi-faceted and fast-moving as to feel impossible. Yet we must learn to do so. Digitalisation will proceed, with no finite end point, increasing tension between those already powerful and privileged enough to receive its benefits today – and its further promise to increase the amount of data available to truly understand our world and power better decision-making – and the half of humanity who remain unconnected.
