The following is a guest post and analysis by Trevor Koverko, co-founder of Sapien.
The rise of technology with the internet has transformed worldwide trade and economy, since citizens, governments and companies participate in boundless exchanges. Subsequently, data became the life -hearted and primary fuel of companies and societies worldwide, which stimulates economic growth by shared values.
In this digitally connected world, data -sovereignty has emerged as a critical concept for organizations, state actors and internet users to control data collection, storage and tools. Although data -sovereignty determines the global trade rules, it should not hinder industrial growth and innovation and at the same time protect the rights of individual data privacy.
Protect national interests
Because global trade depends on the sharing and processing of data on nation-state limits, multiple intra- and extra-territorial legal instruments control data flows. Some countries implement localization methods to limit cross -border data exchanges or to perform extensive assessments before outgoing transfers, which hinderes international trade, industrial output and direct foreign investments (DBI).
Such data sovereignty measures the national market and helps adult industries to offer good performing services within the Jurisdiction of the State. It mainly helps countries with large populations, where companies can maximize the streams for generating income by using the huge data reserves.
But a transmission of the national data sovereignty can negatively influence the domestic economy, with an estimated fall in GDP, a decrease in employment by 2% and a contraction of 3.4% in BDI. This translates global economic ecosystems in silence and an adverse effect on international trade.
Although the localization of services is necessary, hyperlocalization can prevent companies from having access to international data processing, labeling and analysis services. This in particular affects the emerging AI industry, which is highly dependent on large data sets for model training, which increases the overhead costs.
Hyperlocalization of data-dependent industries such as AI and cloud service providers can influence the free cross-border trade and impede the scale operations. At the same time, the turnover divination channels can reduce, cause disturbances and generate suboptimal returns for companies that rely on foreign data storage units and overseas processing facilities.
In addition to requiring additional capital reserves to manage workloads, Hyper-sovereign Data Management can undermine cross-border trade agreements and suspects of data distribution. Governments and organizations must therefore find a balance to balance their digital economic ecosystems and data on sovereignty.
Balancing innovation and sovereignty
Some countries facilitate cross -border data exchanges when they get reassurance of optimum data protection levels bound by legal contracts. These bilateral or multilateral contracts help countries to maintain the data agreement of their citizens by setting specific conditions for data use.
Such data on sovereignty can stimulate international trade, global industrial productivity and cross -border cooperation projects, leading to a lively domestic economy. Data show an increase of 0.6% of GDP and an increase in employment percentages by 1% as a result of free data exchanges in different countries.
Since digital-native companies depend on large aggregated data sets, access to foreign data reserves helps them to build innovative and adapted services for international customers. In addition to taking care of the global markets, Cross-Country exchange of their own data researchers and scientists to work on new data-driven products.
Subsequently, an estimate shows that a lower data restriction can be done on the International Technology and Innovation Foundation Data Index decrease Overhead costs with 0.6%. This can open the global and domestic markets for more competition, which improves user -oriented services through high -quality data accessibility.
Due to free data flows, national markets can be attractive destinations for companies guided by data, with more domestic and foreign companies that offer Saaas and AI solutions. During the business diversification, companies and governments must remember the central center of citizens and data generated by users when running the global markets.
The individual is sovereign
User data is the core of the global digital economy. Protecting the sovereignty of user data is therefore the supreme for building market confidence and generating value in the long term. To start with, the legislation for personal data protection must protect the data of citizens during cross -border transfers.
For example the EU regulations for general data protection (GDPR), The cross-border privacy rules of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Systemand the regulation of privacy enforcement (Cpea) are necessary regulations to maintain individual data. Despite such legislative measures, the Stern II decision that EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement has taken up major challenges for transatlantic data transfers.
Currently, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework offers provisions for EU citizens ‘data protection measures within US jurisdiction, which limits American intelligence to access to European users’ data. However, with an approaching SCHREMS III Case, a better transatlantic data transfer approach is necessary to balance data protection, innovation and cross -border information flows.
In a data economy, trust and reliability are crucial for encouraging users to participate in sharing data exchange. As a result, a user -oriented sovereignty model initiates an exercise for building trusts by implementing robust policy for data use and agreements to achieve trust among stakeholders.
If users are sure to share their data due to strong security measures, this will lead to more innovative products, knowledge exchange between countries, cooperation exercises and global economic growth. User-oriented data sovereignty therefore makes interoperability possible, because organizations and governments can seamlessly share data over national domains without regulatory obstacles. As data-intensive industries such as AI continue to evolve, data sovereignty will guarantee responsible and sustainable growth in the long term.
