The government is crucial in promoting digital economy development, particularly in creating a favorable environment for ICT infrastructure development and digital innovation. And this is exactly the missing point regarding the interventions adopted by the European and U.S. governance regimes with development issues, especially within the technology field. The orchestration among national regulators, the private sector, SMEs, and academia is vital to producing workable governance arrangements.

“In the current political order of the digital world, which has automatically turned all people into digital citizens of American platforms by default, we must establish a third way for the new generation of young people in the EU beyond the borders of US technology giants to bring about its navigation.” said the President of France – Emmanuel Macron – at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2018.

An essential feature of emerging and evolving communication and information technologies is that they transcend the boundaries of national sovereignty and change the common areas of authority of public, private, and social institutions. In this way, creating a sense of insecurity and trying to empower modes of governance institutions and the concern of making a  profit  and  increasing  economic  productivity  in 

entrepreneurs and private sector activists creates a dichotomy; This conflict is global today, and all countries and national and international businesses are involved in it in some way.

The Data for Governance Lab (D4G-Lab) seeks to establish a link between national entrepreneurs and public institutions to foster technological innovation without the need for direct state funding, aiming for competitive and scalable markets. As a missionary watchword, “Let our national sovereignty map its own territory.”