During the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance and potential of the digital economy (DE) in the functioning of modern society came to the fore. It is no surprise that the digital economy has raised expectations and it is still raising them.

For more than two decades, the digital economy has existed not only as a form of doing business but also as a new form of market structure, rules, and principles.

Researchers and authors around the world are thus consistently exploring the potential of Digital Economy to support a ‘technology leap’ strategy that successfully narrows disparities between productivity and production bridges the gap between industrialized and developing countries