Dispatch from the Digital Planet: February 2022

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RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
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The Long Shadow of the Lockdown: How the Pandemic Altered the Way Americans Spend Time Online
As the lockdowns lifted and the United States began navigating its way out of the pandemic, we examine how Americans spent their time online, and discuss implications for those on both sides of the digital divide. Using data from Similarweb, we analyzed traffic to the top 100 websites over a two-year period from May 2019 to May 2021, capturing online activity pre-pandemic, during the height of stay-at-home orders and social distancing, and through the ebbs and flows of initial re-openings.
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PERSPECTIVES
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50 Global Hubs for Top AI Talent
Harvard Business Review
Building ethical AI that works for everyone will require a diverse workforce that brings a broad range of perspectives. To achieve this, however, companies will need to look outside of the usual hubs, such as San Francisco. Companies globally can gain from the list of top 50 cities for AI talent and how diverse the population of developers is in each city.
IMAGINING A DIGITAL ECONOMY FOR ALL (IDEA) 2030 COUNCIL RESEARCH
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Inclusive Crisis Management by Governments: Using Digital Ethnography and Sentiment Analysis as a Sensing Function and Policy Tool
In collaboration with our IDEA 2030 Council member, Equiception
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EVENT TAKEAWAYS
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The Internet’s Turn? Conclave
What did we learn about our digital lives around the world during the pandemic—and how we can get from here to a post-pandemic digital economy that works for everyone everywhere. View the key takeaways of The Internet’s Turn? Conclave by the Digital Planet’s Imagining a Digital Economy for All (IDEA) 2030 Council.
ONGOING RESEARCH
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Global digital competitiveness dashboards
Download country dashboards for an in-depth view on how countries around the globe compare to their regional and economic peers on over 50 measures of digital competitiveness. Part of the Digital Intelligence Index research, the dashboards offer a suite of powerful visualizations to gauge an economy’s digital strengths and shortcomings, benchmarking its score in each index.
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Listen to the Podcast
Bloomberg Baystate Business Radio
Bhaskar Chakravorti on the big issue of regulating Big Tech
ANALYST OF THE MONTH
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Edbert Jao
Undergraduate
Research Analyst,
Digital Planet
I’VE BEEN WORKING ON
Research on creating more a more inclusive digital economy and how American internet consumption during the pandemic evolved alongside social distancing.
AN INSIGHT I DISCOVERED
Social distancing in 2020 highlighted the disparity in digitalization with functions of everyday life. Somewhat digitalized functions saw explosive growth compared to highly digitalized functions in terms of traffic to websites servicing them. The pandemic shows that increased digital inclusion comes with ample room for significant digital evolution.
I’M PASSIONATE ABOUT
Identifying patterns in the data from the digital landscape so everyone can rely on actionable intelligence.
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IN THE NEWS
3 Tech Industry Trends to Watch in 2022: Bhaskar Chakravorti   |   Foreign Policy
How to Fix Big Tech’s Diversity Problem: Bhaskar Chakravorti   |   Foreign Policy
Where Are The Hot Spots And Blind Spots For A.I. Innovation?: Bhaskar Chakravorti and Ajay Bhalla   |   CNN
Big Tech heads for ‘a year of thousands of tiny tech papercuts,’ but what antitrust efforts could make them bleed?   |   MarketWatch
White House wants universal broadband by 2030, but funding could take years to deliver   |   CNBC
Two birds, one stone: Closing the digital divide and facing down Mark Zuckerberg: Bhaskar Chakravorti   |   The Hill
The saviour complex of Facebook’s critics: Bhaskar Chakravorti   |   The Indian Express
Distress of TikTok fake school accounts   |   BBC Sounds
3 ways Congress could hold Facebook accountable for its actions: Bhaskar Chakravorti   |   The Conversation
Solutions to build inclusive and sustainable economies   |   Mastercard
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