South Africa is caught in the global hype of the fourth industrial revolution

Author: Gilwad A.
Date of Publication: 2019

The author argues that uncritically embracing the World Economic Forum’s concept of 4IR
technologies having the potential to propel digitally-ready countries into a new age of economic
prosperity is distracting South Africa from the unfinished business of redressing inequality and
creating the preconditions for an inclusive digital economy. [View resource]

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