Investors worldwide see governments and regulators as the main obstacle to developing digital infrastructure, according to the second annual Global Digital Infrastructure Survey 2021 by IJGlobal and M&E Global, sponsored by Allen & Overy and Digital Bridge.
According to the report, 75.3 percent of respondents believe governments are standing in the way of digital transformation, compared with only 32.4 percent in the 2020 survey. This marks a doubling of skepticism about the public sector´s ability to support digital infrastructure, which is needed for all digital applications and constituting 25 percent of global GDP by 2026.
The survey revealed 64.3 percent view cyber breaches as the overall biggest risk of digital infrastructure.
“The pandemic has increased demand for digital infrastructure, with working from home and flexible working among innumerable reasons that have helped push this sector to the forefront of the minds of infrastructur
