Digital Economy and GVCs
Nicolás Schubert
Services and Investment Department, DIRECON
May 2019
{Digital Economy: Why are we doing this?}
• Internet has changed the way we communicate, access information, knowledge and culture
• Has modified industrial and economic structures
• Decreasing average production costs
• Low reproduction, storage and distribution costs
• Modest capital requirements
• Wide range of products
Characteristics of the Internet and Digital Economy
The new marketplace
The technical sideof things
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Internet is a global resource and a platform
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¿What is the Internet?
Dinamic group of public & privatenetworks
Peering: voluntary interconection of networks to Exchange traffic
How do different networks communicate?
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
ISP (VTR, Movistar) provides last mileconnection
Implications for GVCs• Coordination costs are greatly reduced
• New developments (3D printing, IA and Big Data, new
competitors, R&D)
• Digital products (Dicotomy of goods and services is no longer
useful (SaaS); Data Analysis; Tech platforms change the way
people interact; Supporting industries)
• Enabling global platform as catalyzer for innovation and
creativity
2 layers (chapters):
1.- Infrastructure(Telecommunications)
2.- Contents and applications(E-commerce/Digital Trade)
Chile’s recent FTAs
1. Telecommunications Chapter
• Platform for multiple uses, present and
future, by serving as an innovation platform,
and socially, by facilitating the widest variety
of interactions between people
• Ensuring competition
2. E-commerce Chapter
• Respecting the technical architecture
• Non-discrimination of digital products
Thanks
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