Expert from Malaysia presented a formula for winning the global platform race at the National Centre RUSSIA
In a multipolar world, technological leadership will not belong to importers of ready-made solutions. The future lies with countries and organisations capable of developing and implementing their own standards and systems. This was stated by Dr Rais Hussin, Chief Executive Officer of EMIR Research, during the January Expert Dialogues at the National Centre RUSSIA on 30 January. The expert addressed one of the megatrends shaping the economy of the future — "Platformisation of the Global Economy and a New Level of Autonomy".
"The next stage of global competition is not a struggle between markets and states, nor between capitalism and its alternatives. It is a struggle over who designs, owns and governs the platforms that capture value, coordinate activity and make decisions at a systemic scale," said Dr Rais Hussin.
The expert proposed a new perspective on the very concept of sovereignty. If in the industrial era it was based on territory and labour force, today what emerges is "architectural sovereignty" — the ability of a society to design its own infrastructural, technological and cognitive platforms. It is precisely these platforms that ensure value creation, process organisation and decision-making in the economy and governance.
"We are not taking part in a GPU arms race (note: GPU is a processor used to accelerate 3D graphics and AI-related computations)," Dr Rais Hussin stated succinctly and vividly, stressing that the key factor is not hardware as such, but solution architecture and data quality. He noted that national and corporate platforms must be capable of auditing external AI systems, understanding the data on which they are trained and the decisions they produce. Without this, digital sovereignty is impossible.
At the core of Dr Rais Hussin’s presentation was a "three-layer" structure of the new platform economy. Financial architecture determines how value is created and redistributed. Cognitive infrastructure encompasses education, data processing and artificial intelligence. Strategic governance sets the rules, formats of cooperation and institutions that turn technologies into sustainable growth.
"This triad forms the framework necessary to create a new global growth platform, in which countries cease to be passive users of other people’s standards and become the authors of their own configurations," Rais Hussin emphasised.
During his lecture, the expert also addressed the challenges of workforce training and the development of critical thinking. In a world where artificial intelligence and complex technological systems play an increasingly significant role, there is a need for people "who are capable not only of using ready-made models, but also of understanding their internal logic, asking the right questions and designing new solutions". This applies both to engineers and developers working in the fields of artificial intelligence, genomics and quantum technologies, and to managers responsible for shaping national strategies.
The strategist from Malaysia called on participants to take active steps towards global technological transformation: "We are not claimants. We are architects. The new platform will not be granted — it must be built."
As the expert noted, globalisation will remain, but its nature will change: monopolar models will give way to a multipolar configuration, in which the role of regional centres of power and their own platform ecosystems will grow.
In addition, Rais Hussin added that the Open Dialogue format itself already serves as a "prototype platform" — an environment in which shared principles are formed, successful practices are replicated and new rules of interaction for the multipolar world are developed.
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