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It is through digitalisation that poorer, agrarian-based economies can bypass industrialisation. It can allow them to break through the glass ceiling of primary resource-based countries and enter the ranks of the world’s advanced economies.
Because of this, it is crucial for developing countries to digitalise as fast as possible. With every passing year, emerging countries that fail to adequately develop their digital economies fall further and further behind the rest of the world, ensnaring them in relative poverty.
Central Asia is a region with major potential in the digital sphere, but which unfortunately lags behind much of emerging Europe.