The Digital Silk Road and the Sustainable Development Goals
dc.contributor.author | Sen, Gong | |
dc.contributor.author | Bingqin, Li | |
dc.coverage.spatial | China | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-17T12:15:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-12-17T12:15:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-12-17 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Sen, G. and Bingqin, L. (2019) 'The Digital Silk Road and the Sustainable Development Goals' in Sen, G., Leach, M. and Gu, J. (Eds) The Belt and Road Initiative and the SDGs: Towards Equitable, Sustainable Development, IDS Bulletin 50.4, Brighton: IDS | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/14895 | |
dc.description.abstract | The information and communications technology (ICT) sector has attracted growing interest among stakeholders in countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Chinese investors. A Digital Silk Road initiative within the BRI is growing, as countries are encouraged to work together on production and trade enabled by digital technologies. Digital connectivity and the emerging digital economy can have positive impacts on development, as has been demonstrated in some Chinese cities. However, it is difficult to tell whether the Chinese experience will be transferable. This article reviews what China has done in relation to the Digital Silk Road and the possible contributions made towards delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in investee countries. We conclude that while ICT investment has the transformative power to benefit the world’s poorest, its benefits should not be overestimated. Enhancing activities in the virtual world need to be matched with those in the real world to deliver sustainable outcomes. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Center for International Knowledge on Development’s (CIKD) China–UK Partnership Programme on Knowledge for Development. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Bulletin;50.4 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited, any modifications or adaptations are indicated, and the work is not used for commercial purposes. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Development Policy | en |
dc.subject | Sustainable Development Goals | |
dc.title | The Digital Silk Road and the Sustainable Development Goals | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Business, Markets and the State | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.19088/1968-2019.137 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-12-17 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | 9ce4e4dc-26e9-4d78-96e9-15e4dcac0642 | en |
Files in this item
This item appears in the following Collection(s)
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited, any modifications or adaptations are indicated, and the work is not used for commercial purposes. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode