Valdai Club

 
On March 24 at 4:00 pm, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion titled “The Politicisation of Digital Supply Chains as a New Geopolitical Strategy. How Can States Resist?”

The combined market value of the world's five largest companies, four of which are technology companies, is over $10 trillion dollars, which exceeds the gross domestic product of most countries. Among them, Western transnational companies Meta  and Google remain clear monopolists in the digital sphere. Digital giants accumulate users' personal data in order to use it to select relevant content, as well as to extract commercial benefits and influence the consumer behavior, views and preferences of millions of people. They can block access to digital markets, limit the presence of users on social networks, affect smartphone shipments, or remove specific content in a matter of hours.