Opinion
Introducing the Digital Cooperation Organization: Towards a Common Digital Market in the Middle East?
In November 2020, senior government officials from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait and Pakistan announced the launch of the Digital...
Access Alert: Oman Opens Public Consultation on Data Centres and Cloud Computing
Over the past few years, the Sultanate of Oman has proactively launched several digital transformation initiatives in a bid to...
EURACTIV Virtual Conference: Humans and Machines Working Together
A period of rapid transformation is dawning, but what legal and ethical questions does this paradigm shift raise? On 25...
Access Alert: President Biden Signs Executive Order to Review Global Supply Chains in Key Industries
On 24 February 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order to review the global supply chains used by...
The European Commission Launches Process on Dataflows to the United Kingdom
The European Commission has launched the process towards the adoption of two adequacy decisions for personal data transfers to the...
Sustainability Tracker
Welcome to the fourth issue of Sustainability Tracker – our monthly update on the most important policy developments tackling the...
EU ePrivacy Regulation: Objectives and Ramifications
The ePrivacy Regulation (formally known as Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the respect for private...
EU Lawmakers Expand Brussels Trade Retaliatory Powers Beyond Scope of WTO
On 19 January, the European Parliament adopted new rules widening the scope of the EU’s powers to enforce countermeasures in...
The Governance of AI: the ‘Brussels Effect’ of a Pan-European Framework
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming our way of life and its applications are continuously expanding. The development of AI shows...
Access Alert: COFECE, IFT and INAI Should be Untouchable
Newly-appointed Mexican Secretary of the Economy Tatiana Clouthier convened with leaders of the MORENA ruling party on 29 January. During...
Access Alert: Brazilian Data Protection Authority’s Regulatory Agenda Released
On 28 January 2021, Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) published its Regulatory Agenda for the 2021-2022 biennium. The regulatory...
EURACTIV Virtual Conference: EU and China Towards Shared Climate Ambitions
On 28 January 2020, EURACTIV hosted the virtual conference “Carbon-neutrality: How can the EU and China co-operate to lead global...
The Digital Services Act: The Future of Content Regulation
On 13 January, MEP Alex Agius Saliba was joined by industry representatives from Zoom and Vodafone to share thoughts on...
Global Tech in 2021: International Advisory Board Predictions
On 17 December, the Access Partnership Advisory Board met to discuss macro currents that will shape policy for the technology...
Access Alert: CITC White Paper on Cloud Computing
Organizations and governments in the Middle East are no longer aiming to lead on a regional level only – they...
Tech Policy Trends 2021 | OpenRAN Goes Mainstream
Geopolitics is poised to provide a boost to the quiet quest of opening telecom interfaces to the mainstream in 2021....
Tech Policy Trends 2021 | E-Commerce Takes a Leap into the Future
The impact of Covid-19 on the development of e-commerce cannot be overstated. In a context of social distancing and confinement,...
Tech Policy Trends 2021 | “Telecoms is Just Software”: Regulators Wake Up to the Virtualisation of Telecoms
The virtualisation of networks is disrupting the telecommunications industry. Physical hardware used in traditional telecommunications networks is being replaced by...
Tech Policy Trends 2021 | Frictionless Data: Escaping the Gravity of Regulation
If the big trend since the Snowden NSA data collection controversy has been the regulation of data, 2021 may see...
Tech Policy Trends 2021 | DSA and Section 230: Shifting Intermediary Liability Regime
Following over two decades of uninterrupted and loosely regulated growth, tech companies are now under an increasingly powerful microscope in...
Tech Policy Trends 2021 | Global Antitrust Takes Centre Stage
2020 has been a challenging year for everyone, and large tech companies have not been exempted, especially in terms of...