Bøker av Obosa Eugenia Okougbo

O mundo pode estar a aproximar-se rapidamente da tempestade perfeita, com a intersecção de duas grandes tendências globais. Num momento de transição histórica, em que a ordem internacional pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial e pós-Guerra Fria está a sofrer uma erosão no meio de visões concorrentes da ordem mundial e de rivalidades geopolíticas renovadas, o mundo está também nas fases iniciais de uma transformação tecnológica sem precedentes. Este promete ser um período de mudança exponencial, o segundo - e muito mais perturbador - capítulo da revolução digital que começou com a Internet na década de 1990. Historicamente, a tecnologia geralmente corre à frente das instituições, regras e normas. No entanto, a extraordinária magnitude da mudança numa altura de desgaste e desordem institucional global pressagia uma lacuna particularmente perigosa na governação global com impacto nas economias, sociedades e no futuro da guerra.Nas próximas duas décadas, ocorrerão mais mudanças impulsionadas pela tecnologia do que na primeira revolução baseada nas TIC (tecnologias de informação e comunicação), com profundas ramificações sociais, económicas e geopolíticas.

In the modern digital world, where there is money, there are cyberattackers. According to IBM, the finance and insurance sector has now been the single most attacked industry for 3 years in a row (with 19 per cent of all recorded attacks in 2018). Hardly surprising, given that ¿digital¿ is the de facto trend in finance, where digital financial services are seen as one of the key drivers of greater financial inclusion. The ¿digital¿ trend is here to stay, as illustrated by the recent launch of the UN Secretary-General¿s Task Force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals, the promotion of digital financial services by international development agencies, the opportunities created by business (both in the developed and developing world) and the interest from academia.Good progress in overall digitisation of finance has been made over the recent years. Indeed, the World Bank reports that between 2014 and 2017 the number of adults using digital payments increased from 41 to 52 per cent (11 per cent increase) and the share of adults with an account has grown from 62 to 69 per cent. This translates into half a billion new users connected to the digital infrastructure...

The world may be fast approaching the perfect storm, with the intersection of two major global trends. At a moment of historic transition, when the post-WWII and post-Cold War international order is eroding amid competing visions of world order and renewed geopolitical rivalries, the world is also in the early stages of an unprecedented technological transformation. It promises to be a period of exponential change, the second¿and far more disruptive¿chapter of the digital revolution that began with the Internet in the 1990s. Historically, technology usually races ahead of institutions, rules, and norms. The extraordinary magnitude of change at a time of global institutional fraying and disorder, however, portends a particularly dangerous gap in global governance impacting economies, societies, and the future of war.Substantially more technology-driven change will take place during the coming two decades than in the first ICT (information and communications technology)-based revolution, with profound social, economic, and geopolitical ramifications.