What’s Wrong with the Global Digital Compact?

... exploit the labor, resources, and data of developing nations. All these assertions are undeniable with regard to global governance of the digital space, with both Russian and foreign researchers highlighting this problem at the earliest stages of the Internet Governance Forum. Subsequently, during the discussion of the initial GDC drafts, China and G-77 representatives noted the importance of the intergovernmental nature of global cyberspace governance. However, as was then pointed out in the Global South Alliance’s statement on the GDC and the Pact for the Future, bridging the digital divide is a critical issue for developing nations, and that’s why most of them decided to support the GDC. Moreover, the GDC was presented as one of the ...