Impact of Technology on Globalization in the Digital Era

Abstract

This study is critical of the performance of technology in defining global distributive
justice, and it focuses on how the exacerbating effects of technologies reinforce
economic disparities between developed and less developed countries. In the wake
of accelerating digitalisation, the study investigates how unequal chances in access
to technologies complicate the constitutive pillars of global justice and fairness.
It interrogates how the global justice system is exploited through technological
disparities and analyzes the implications of the disparities in a world that is increasingly
interconnected and unequal. It is driven by three fundamental objectives: (1)
determining how technology perpetuates global distributive injustices; (2) assessing
the extent to which technological expansion extends economic disparities; and (3)
scrutinizing the role of global governance in rectifying such disparities. It responds to
pertinent questions of adequacy of global systems in ensuring technological equity
and justice. Adopting a qualitative doctrinal approach, it combines thematic analysis,
the use of cases, and legal-policy analysis to examine digital sovereignty and the issue
of governance. Overall, the study adds to global discourses by providing solutions in
the form of strategies for equitable technological growth and calling for inclusive
systems of governance that would ensure that technologies serve as instruments of
global justice in lieu of causing injustices to deepen further.