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Regulatory Chill: Tech Giants Lobby Negotiators at Secret Swiss Talks to Subvert Regulators
Global tech giants are lobbying Australian officials in secret talks in Geneva over a deal which could allow them to…
Governing the Digital World: Lessons From Last Year’s WTO Public Forum
By Richard Hill Data is a source of comparative advantage. Countries need to take control of data in order to…
In Flux: Examining the Evolving Role of the WTO in the Digital World
With Carolina Rossini There is increasing recognition that the ‘trade arena’ is the major space determining internet governance. We spoke…
Exceptions & Confusions- The Politics of Trade and National Security
This interview follows our earlier conversation with Amelia, ‘Negotiating Trade and Competition in the Digital World.’ With Amelia Andersdotter National…
Beyond Breaking up Big Tech- Public Alternatives to Facebook
This interview follows our earlier conversation with Tim, ‘Is Breaking up Big Tech Enough?’ With Timothy Karr …
Towards the Dismantling of Digital Monopolies – Data, Competitiveness and the Portability Key
By Maria Paz How have tech giants like Facebook and Google built their empires? Why is it so tough for…
Researching our Digitally Mediated World: An Argument for Feminist Digital Anthropology
By Ingrid Brudvig Ingrid Brudvig explores how feminist research methodologies need to be reconfigured in the digital context, assessing their…
The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle- Reconfiguring Competition Policy For The Data Driven Economy
By Ira Anjali Anwar Existing antitrust laws have proven to be ineffectual in tackling big tech monopolies. Cases against large…
Negotiating Trade & Competition in the Digital World
With Amelia Andersdotter As a global network, the Internet has been largely governed in the international arena under the ‘multistakeholder’…
Is Breaking up Big Tech Enough?
Reflections on Antitrust and Surveillance Capitalism With Timothy Karr Could you comment on the conversation around antitrust laws in…
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South Americas and the Surveillance Society
By Aram Aharonian We live in times when algorithms facilitate electoral fraud, track people’s movements and can analyze micro- expressions…
Breaking Up the Big Tech Legacy: Antitrust Developments in the US
With Charlotte Slaiman This interview is divided in two parts. Part one looks at the current status of antitrust…
On RightsCon and the long con of digital policy multistakeholderism
The digital rights community is increasingly enclosed within spaces running on private donations. RightsCon, along with the IFF and re:publica,…
What’s up with Libra? Everything That Should Concern Us About Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency
Last week, Facebook announced Libra, its new currency based on blockchain technology. This development that has been met with mixed…
Can We Control The Digital Revolution?
Feeding the Beast- how sustainable is the current trajectory of digitization? To understand the challenge the digital revolution poses to…
No magic bullets – Reclaiming the transformatory potential of e-commerce for women’s empowerment
With the announcement of the Joint Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment at the WTO Ministerial Conference in December…
Social Media Giants & the Resurgence of India’s Modi Wave
Q: Compared to 2014, how did political parties utilize social media platforms in India’s 2019 general elections? How has this…
Artificial Intelligence – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Part I- Regulating for Bias in AI You have been working on developing standards for algorithmic bias considerations with the…
The Scored Citizen: Data Scores as a New Form of Governance
The datafication of social life has led to a profound transformation in how society is ordered, how decisions are made,…
The ‘Free’ and ‘Flexible’ Workforce?
The research findings of this article are based on a recently published ILO report titled Digital labour platforms and the…
Data Black Magic
‘Data is the new oil’, you’ve probably read this. Since it was coined by the English mathematician Clive Humby back…
Unpacking the Huawei Case: U.S , China and the Need for Digital Non-Alignment
As the digital era evolves, the recent blacklisting of Huawei by the US may turn out to be an event…
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