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sábado, septiembre 07, 2019

Ranking 42 Countries by Ease of Doing Digital Business

The World Bank’s annual Doing Business survey has been described by some as the “World Cup” or “Olympics” for governments competing to make their countries attractive to businesses. The ranking measures how easy it is to do business in a country by examining regulatory environments and is enormously influential: it has inspired more than 3,500 reforms across 190 economies; in 2017-18 alone, 128 economies undertook a record 314 reforms.

While this attention to policy responsiveness is admirable, a key element is missing from rankings such as Doing Business: they say little about the ease or difficulty of doing digital business. We aim to close this gap with the first analysis of the Ease of Doing Digital Business in 42 countries around the world. We picked these countries because they constitute the most significant markets for digital businesses worldwide and offer a consistent set of data across a wide range of indicators. We find that digital business environments require distinctive policy focuses and investments. Our evaluation is intended as a complement to that of the World Bank; it provides decision-makers a basis to compare countries not only in terms of “traditional” business-friendliness but also in terms of factors affecting setting up digital businesses.

While all businesses have elements of digital technology built into them, we define “digital businesses” as ones that have a digital platform as core to its business model. We analyzed four essential digital platforms: ecommerce platforms (e.g. Amazon, eBay); digital media platforms (e.g. YouTube, Netflix); sharing economy platforms (e.g. Uber, Airbnb); and online freelance platforms (e.g. Upwork, Toptal).

Arguably, digital businesses represent one of the most dynamic growth aspects of most major economies. In the U.S., for example, the digital economy grew 3.7 times faster in the 11 years through 2016, compared to the economy as a whole, according to the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis.

We considered some of the particular challenges digital businesses face:

They grow or shrink at different speeds and are governed by several factors that are specific to the digital ecosystems.
They face unique market resistance and competition.
Digital businesses present nuanced regulatory challenges. Rules governing the mobility of data, protection of user privacy, or net neutrality can fundamentally affect the ease of doing digital business – and these rules vary across countries.
Given their strategic value, digital businesses can be particularly important to governments. The U.S.-China rivalry is an example. Many international digital business that have tried and failed to enter China while the U.S. is home to many powerful tech companies and the U.S. government has hit companies such as Chinese digital giant, Huawei, with particularly stringent restrictions.
There are numerous other infrastructural factors that are idiosyncratic to digital businesses, such as digital access and adequate bandwidth, institutional enablers for creation of digital content and internet censorship as well as the availability of talent. Despite the power of the digital economy, these factors are not as well understood, benchmarked across countries or systematically evaluated for action by policymakers, business leaders, and investors.

Creating a Scorecard for the Ease of Doing Digital Business: Methodology

We wanted to know: how easy is it for the most significant digital platforms to enter, operate, thrive, or exit in markets around the world, and what are the primary facilitators and barriers?

We drew upon 236 variables across 42 countries from over 60 data sources comprising public databases such as those from the World Bank and the World Economic Forum, subscription services, such as GSMA and Euromonitor and proprietary sources, such as Akamai, Chartbeat, and Private Capital Research Institute. To create a composite picture of “digital business,” we considered four types of digital platforms representing distinct value propositions and the primary business models -ecommerce platforms, digital media, sharing economy platforms, and online freelance – as the leading indicators of digital business opportunities in a country.

A country’s Ease of Doing Digital Business (EDDB) score was obtained from a combination of platform-specific scores and foundational levers, as shown in the list below:

Digital platforms made up 50% of the score. They were weighted as follows:
Internet retailing/e-commerce: 20%
Digital media, defined as media and entertainment delivered through digital means: 15%
Sharing Economy/ the digital facilitation of sharing of assets between private individuals and groups: 10%
Online high-skilled freelancers using the internet to secure, complete, and deliver projects: 5%


Foundational factors made up the other 50% of the total score. They were weighted as follows:
Data accessibility, defined as the extent to which data easily transfers across and within borders, including the intensity of data flows and data restrictions. These free flows of data as well as government openness to sharing anonymized data publicly, with policies in place to safeguard user privacy: 25%
Digital and analog foundations essential for all digital platforms, across demand, supply, institutions, and innovation: 15%
World Bank Ease of Doing Business score for 2019, representing how a country performs compared to the best possible measure: 10%

The graphic below shows the EDDB and how 42 countries compare, both through EDDB performance in the aggregate and across the four digital platforms.
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miércoles, septiembre 04, 2019

Eugenia - Iconografía @metrocdmx

La Colonia del Valle está llena de calles con nombres que a muchos no les dicen nada. En realidad Miguel Laurent, Luz Saviñón, Matías Romero y muchos otros nombres comunes a los oriundos de la zona, fueron filántropos reconocidos internacionalmente en el siglo XIX. Eugenia Ojeda no tenía fama internacional ni mucho menos, pero la señora de la Quinta Eugenia —que se ubicaba en la esquina de Avenida Coyoacán y Eje 5 Sur— era bastante conocida por sus labores altruistas en beneficio de los vecinos de la zona.

La labor de Doña Eugenia y la presencia que tenía gracias a la quinta, fueron suficientes para concederle un lugar dentro de las muchas avenidas bautizadas con nombres propios en la del Valle y es la razón por la que uno de los ejes más importantes del sur de la ciudad mantiene su nombre en la memoria colectiva hasta el día de hoy.

¿Y qué tiene que ver todo esto con el pajarito que adorna la estación? Eugenia significa bien nacida —¿les suena eugenesia? ¿Y saben cuál es el ave que simboliza los nacimientos? ¿El ave que viene de París? Así es, el pajarito que adorna la estación de Eugenia es una cigüeña, la cual rinde tributo a la señora Ojeda.

 

Metro Eugenia - iconografía

La Colonia del Valle está llena de calles con nombres que a muchos no les dicen nada. En realidad Miguel Laurent, Luz Saviñón, Matías Romero y muchos otros nombres comunes a los oriundos de la zona, fueron filántropos reconocidos internacionalmente en el siglo XIX. Eugenia Ojeda no tenía fama internacional ni mucho menos, pero la señora de la Quinta Eugenia —que se ubicaba en la esquina de Avenida Coyoacán y Eje 5 Sur— era bastante conocida por sus labores altruistas en beneficio de los vecinos de la zona.

La labor de Doña Eugenia y la presencia que tenía gracias a la quinta, fueron suficientes para concederle un lugar dentro de las muchas avenidas bautizadas con nombres propios en la del Valle y es la razón por la que uno de los ejes más importantes del sur de la ciudad mantiene su nombre en la memoria colectiva hasta el día de hoy.

¿Y qué tiene que ver todo esto con el pajarito que adorna la estación? Eugenia significa bien nacida —¿les suena eugenesia? ¿Y saben cuál es el ave que simboliza los nacimientos? ¿El ave que viene de París? Así es, el pajarito que adorna la estación de Eugenia es una cigüeña, la cual rinde tributo a la señora Ojeda.

 

Google to Pay $170 Million for YouTube Child Privacy Breaches

Google's YouTube agreed on Wednesday to pay a $170 million fine and limit ads on kids' videos to settle claims that the company violated children's privacy laws.

The world's largest video-sharing site agreed to pay the fine, which is a record for a children's privacy case, to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and New York State for failing to obtain parental consent in collecting data on kids under the age of 13, the FTC said. Starting in four months, Google also will limit data collection and turn off commenting on videos aimed at kids, YouTube announced at the same time, moves that will hamstring its ability to sell advertisement against a massive portion of its media library.

The settlement under the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, represents the most significant U.S. enforcement action against a big technology company in at least five years over its practices involving minors. Washington is stepping up privacy and antitrust scrutiny of the big internet platforms that have largely operated with few regulatory constraints.

"The $170 million total monetary judgment is almost 30 times higher than the largest civil penalty previously imposed under COPPA," FTC Chairman Joe Simons said in a joint statement with fellow Republican Commissioner Christine Wilson. "This significant judgment will get the attention of platforms, content providers, and the public."

The commission's two Democrats broke from its three Republicans, however, saying the settlement did not go far enough to fix the problems. Some consumer advocates have slammed earlier reports of the fine as an insufficient deterrent, given the size of the company.

YouTube said it will rely on both machine learning and video creators themselves to identify what content is aimed at children. The algorithms will look at cues such as kids' characters and toys, although the identification of youth content can be tricky. Content creators are being given four months to adjust before changes take effect, the company said.

The company will also spend more to promote its kids app and establish a $100 million fund, disbursed over three years, "dedicated to the creation of thoughtful, original children's content," Chief Executive Officer Susan Wojcicki wrote in a blog posting.

"Today's changes will allow us to better protect kids and families on YouTube," Wojcicki wrote in the blog, which acknowledged the rising chances that children are watching the site alone. "In the coming months, we'll share details on how we're rethinking our overall approach to kids and families, including a dedicated kids experience on YouTube," she said.




lunes, septiembre 02, 2019

El pasado pasado es

Cierto que su dejamos el pasado en paz, la vida es ligera. Conforme pasan los años, te haces más selectivo.

Todos somos #Google

Hasta dónde tenemos integradas nuestras redes sociales en relación a nuestra marca personal o empresa. ¡Qué pasará cuando desaparezca Google!
Y si de repente un día nos despertamos sin saber en dónde quedó aquel mail lleno de amor. O aquel lleno de seguimiento a proyectos.

Se acerca el fin de año

Retomando el blog. Porque es importante tener al tanto de mis seguidores alguno que otro pensamiento y sentimiento interno.