In January last year, when a group of young Egyptians posted a notice on Facebook urging people to gather at Tahrir Square, no one knew what to expect. In less than a month, history had been created.
The internet, which used to be seen as an enabling tool for global businesses, has become a driver of socio-economic and political change in the Arab world.
Digitisation in emerging countries could deliver as much as $6.3 trillion in additional nominal GDP and create 77 million new jobs over the next 10 years, a latest report by management consultants Booz and Company, says. “Capturing this rich return will require a concerted public and private effort to bring digitisation to the world’s poorest people — those at the bottom of the pyramid.”
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