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Nigel Cory

@nigelcory.bsky.social

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🇦🇺🦘Director, Digital, Tech, & Trade Policy, Crowell Global Advisors. Non-resident fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research. Fmr ITIF and DFAT. www.linkedin.com/in/nigelcory

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Nigel Cory @nigelcory.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Interesting new report: "ASEAN DEFA: Promoting Interoperable Payments in Southeast Asia through the ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement." Payments play a critical role in the digital economy, yet cross-border payments remains costly and complicated. www.nextradegroupllc.com/interoperabl...

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Nigel Cory @nigelcory.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

AI & productivity. Interesting study carries out the first analysis of how the quality and type of human capital within firms influences the probability of adoption, using novel and uniquely comprehensive official data sources from France. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Nigel Cory @nigelcory.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

AI and India’s National Interest. By Hosuk Lee-Makiyama et al at the European Center for International Political Economy (ECIPE). ecipe.org/publications...

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Nigel Cory @nigelcory.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Carnegie Endowment launches new Africa Technology Policy Tracker (AfTech). The first continent-wide aggregate of digital economy laws, policies, & regs on digital infra, platforms, skills, & innovation. Developed with the African Telecommunications Union. carnegieendowment.org/features/afr...

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Nigel Cory @nigelcory.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Useful stats/graphs - Large companies perform 89% of US AI R&D; 44-45% of firms with over 10k employees used AI. From: Artificial Intelligence in the Business Sector: R&D, Use, and Impact on Employees, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (2021 data). ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf2531...

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Nigel Cory @nigelcory.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

"How Experts in China and the United Kingdom View AI Risks and Collaboration." From my former colleagues Daniel and Yanzi @datainnovation.org/@itif.org. datainnovation.org/2024/08/how-...

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Nigel Cory @nigelcory.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Next steps in US economic statecraft - Trump names Jacob Helberg as undersecretary of State for economic growth, energy & the environ. Currently works for Palantir & is a member of the US-China Econ & Security Review Commission. Formerly worked for Google & Geoquant. www.uscc.gov/commission-m...

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Nigel Cory @nigelcory.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

@unctad.bsky.social: Developing economies surpass $1 trillion mark in digitally deliverable services exports. unctad.org/news/develop...

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Nigel Cory @nigelcory.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Adoption of digital technologies gets less attention than creating it. With each wave of new tech, countries want their own search/cloud/AI etc. firm. Yet adoption drives productivity. OECD bit.ly/40ZekPv & consultancy report shows gap with uptake of existing, never mind new, tech: bit.ly/4i7QLtL

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Nigel Cory @nigelcory.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Latest on trade policy under Trump 2.0: Trump Cabinet rollout sparks confusion over USTR’s role (i.e. Commerce subsumes USTR) [$ Insidetrade] bit.ly/3ZkpUn8 & ‘What’s left for Bob?’ Lutnick pick raises questions about Lighthizer’s future influence [$ PoliticoPro] bit.ly/3YWYLFm

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Nigel Cory @nigelcory.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

China's President Xi announces a "Global Cross-Border Data Flow Cooperation" initiative in APEC remarks. China is not a member or fan of APEC CBPR & Chinese opposition was a reason it was taken out of APEC to become Global CBPR. Unclear what this is. [$] content.mlex.com#/content/161...

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