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The world is today a more digitally integrated place; however, digital inequality still prevails and its repercussions (e.g., poor access to information, e-commerce, remote education, remote work, and remote healthcare) have aggravated with the Covid-19 pandemic. In this debate, Lafuente, Acs, and Szerb adopt a power-law approach to scrutinize digital inequalities in 107 countries during 2000–2019. The authors take the digital inequality discussion to a more qualitative level by connecting their findings to the quality of countries’ digital ecosystem. Building on the nuance that digital integration encompasses digital technologies and a healthy digital ecosystem, the empirical exercise shows significant progress in digital integration during 2000–2019; however, digital integration is slowing down since 2015. The inspection of countries’ digital ecosystem suggests that digital policies targeting governance (e.g., regulation …