Technology Can Help to Right Technology’s Social Wrongs: Elements for a New Social Compact for Digitalisation

By Andrés Ortega, Miguel Otero, Federico Steinberg, and Francisco Andrés

Abstract

The technological revolution is causing social and political disruptions. But it can also be used to improve welfare systems. It can help to fulfil the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which count on a global consensus. We propose to use Education Technologies at different stages of life –including the possibility of funds for the adaptation to digitalisation and large public-private partnerships for skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling– as a central element of the new social compact. In order to finance these programmes, G20 countries should establish a multilateral common framework for taxing the revenues of large digital corporations.