Will today’s tech wave drown developing countries? Faced with these trends, policymakers in developing countries would need to focus on four priorities. To have a chance, developing countries must consider all of these variables when designing and developing their industrial bases and the capabilities that continued competitiveness requires. Mobile Internet is more appropriate for the developing countries that lack Internet cables and face economic, technical and geographic constraints in deploying such infrastructure. These are the ingredients needed to ensure that developing countries can build up needed competences and compete in the current industrial revolution.
