Russia and India host domestic digital platforms competing with the US-based quantification sector

Evidence

There are important examples of countries that have not been entirely colonized by the Western quantification sector but have instead continued a historical practice of colonizing within their own borders. In Russia, there are companies such as Yandex and Vkontakte operating in the search and social networking markets, companies with close links to the government but which nonetheless compete nationally with Google, Facebook, and the rest of the US social quantification sector. India’s approach in the IT sector, meanwhile, has been to leverage cheap labor and engineering expertise to attract global investment. But in contrast with yesterday’s image of the Indian call center providing customer support for Western companies, India’s current IT sector represents a burgeoning ecosystem of start-ups, technology developers, and service providers of global reach. This infrastructure is being developed in close collaboration with the state through public–private partnerships. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 209

Categorization

• QUESTION: India’s public-private data infrastructure and its trillion-dollar digital market claims could be verified and dated.
• XREF: connects to: Global data empires remain nationally rooted despite their worldwide extractive reach — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 333

Broader Connections

• Global data empires remain nationally rooted despite their worldwide extractive reach #corroborates (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 333