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Oct 2018
30m 36s

The state of the global digital economy

The Economist Intelligence Unit
About this episode
The first episode of The EIU Digital Economy podcast looks at the current state of the global digital economy. Host Pete Swabey speaks to Michael Kent, CEO of cross-border payments provider Azimo, about the challenges of managing a truly global digital start-up. Then guests Annabelle Gawer, chair in digital economy at the University of Surrey, and George Zarkadakis, digital lead at global risk and human capital advisory firm Willis Towers Watson, discuss the impact so far of digitisation on the global economy. Sponsored by DXC Technology

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