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Join us tomorrow onsite or online to discuss our special issue on "EU digital politics and policies"!

Don't miss the first event of our new seminar series, “EU’s Digital Future,” tomorrow! We will present a newly published special issue in Politique Européenne on the EU’s digital politics and policies (Bonnamy & Perarnaud, 2024). 📖 This new publication addresses the following questions: What characterises and drives the EU’s approach to digital regulation? How do EU policymakers try to answer the challenges pertaining to specific characteristics of digital regulation and who takes part in such regulation? 🇪🇺 Join us at the seminar on 7 March from 3pm CET with Clément P., Céleste Bonnamy, Marie Alauzen, Chloé BERUT, Orsolya Gulyás, Trisha Meyer, Samuel Cipers and Julien Rossi. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ecx_P5ff #EU #digital #digitalregulation

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨 Our latest article on digital disconnection policies and regulations has now been published for open access! 📱 What’s it about? While an entire digital disconnection industry has emerged, evidence-based policies and regulations remain underdeveloped. Our study, based on in-depth interviews with 21 experts from organizations in Flanders, Belgium, explores the challenges of developing and implementing such digital disconnection policies across work, school, and family contexts. 🔍 Key findings: A digital disconnection policy paradox exists: while experts advocate for collective solutions, they often fall back on individual responsibility. This highlights a tension between expectations of personal autonomy and the need for systemic regulations. 💡 Why does this matter? Our findings call for a shift in the debate—from placing responsibility solely on individuals to creating more supportive institutional and policy frameworks for digital well-being. 📖 Open access link: https://lnkd.in/ecvJc9x6 Alice Verlinden Laura Lemahieu Lore Geldof Marthe Mennes Arturo Cocchi Marijn Martens Mariek Vanden Abeele School voor Sociale Wetenschappen UHasselt imec-mict-UGent Hasselt University #DigitalDisconnection #Wellbeing #PolicyResearch #DigitalMedia #AcademicResearch

We are proud to announce Marco Berlinguer, a journalist, researcher and expert on digital commons, open-source software and European digital policies, as a prestigious speaker in Panel 1 of our Digital Roundtable, entitled “STARS AND STRIPES ON THE EUROPEAN CLOUD?” Panel 1 discussions will cover topics related to the relationship between competition and (over)regulation, contrasting in this sense the existing situation in Europe and in the United States. 📌 US organizations have often been early adopters of advanced technologies such as cloud and #AI.  📌 Analysts show that Europe is investing a lot in reducing the gap in catching the US in the technology adoption race, nevertheless the market quota of #EuropeanCloudServiceProviders has been declining in a constant trend over the past 5 years. Key initiatives attempting to protect the immunity of European data from non-European jurisdictions (such as ENISA-EUCS or the two Schrems’ sentences from the European Court of Justice, and all the digital regulation), have not been able to stop the trend or bend the dominant position of the incumbents. 💡 The panelists will lay out the different EU vs US market characteristics, the difference in competition laws, the future trends in the current situation and give insightful suggestions on the right measures to undertake. 👉 👉 👉 Register here for free: https://lnkd.in/dmxvgcpH     🌟 Around the Digital Roundtable, we are honored to have Marco Berlinguer, an expert who worked with several organizations, including the Institute for Government and Public Policy (IGOP) and taught at the Catalan School of Cine and Audiovisual and other universities. Learn more about Marco Berlinguer: Marco is one of the founders and for ten years director of the Italian branch of the European political foundation "Transform! Italia". Marco Berlinguer collaborates with Italian newspapers, such as TPI and Il Fatto Quotidiano where he mainly writes about technological innovation and digital policies. He is a member of the Awards Committee of the Smart City World Congress and an expert at the European Task Force on Digital Commons. He would give us some insights on new forms of economy, particularly at the intersection between social economy and the knowledge and information economy, as well as other topics related to the scope of Panel 1 of our Digital Round Table.

https://lnkd.in/ek8Rp2hK "Starr describes how we have became so vulnerable to disinformation in this digital era. He argues, that, like analyses of democratization, which have turned in recent years to the reverse processes of democratic backsliding and breakdown, analyses of contemporary communication need to attend to the related processes of backsliding and breakdown in the media – or what he refers to as “media degradation.” After defining that term in relation to democratic theory, Starr focuses on three developments that have contributed to the increased vulnerability to disinformation: 1) the attrition of journalistic capacities; 2)the degradation of standards in both the viral and broadcast streams of the new media ecology; and 3) the rising power of digital platforms with incentives to prioritize growth and profits and no legal accountability for user-generated content. Neoliberal policies of limited government and reduced regulation of business and partisan politics contributed to these developments, but while demands are growing for regulation, it remains uncertain whether government can act effectively." "NO LEGAL ACCOUNTABILITY FOR USER GENERATED CONTENT" And that includes licensed MDs who spew deadly disinformation, They do so with impunity.

Glad to see that the Council of the European Union Think Tank Review has selected two policy pieces I wrote in their June 2024 edition: 1️⃣ Geopolitics of #GenerativeAI: international implications and the EU's role, with Pau Alvarez-Aragones. We address the economic, security & global governance implications. We also assess the impact of U.S. export controls on GPUs and effects in Generative AI, investment screening, international fora, and other relevant instruments that are gaining weight in the political, trade, diplomatic, and #economicsecurity arenas. 2️⃣ #DigitalDecade 2030 goals: performance from the EU and Spain, with Emilio García García and Judith Arnal Martínez. We identify several policy areas that require further coordination, investment needs, and monitoring. https://lnkd.in/dDZnbgYD *Link to document on the geopolitics of Generative AI: https://lnkd.in/dZDjF2Yf *Link to document on the Digital Decade 2030 performance: https://lnkd.in/d6dNb5Ui

Topic of the week: transatlantic deregulatory frenzy 🔸In the US the victory of Donald Trump has opened a new direction what concerns the orientation of government policy, which can be characterised as an ultra-Reaganite campaign against state intervention in the economy. 🔸Visit of Argentinian President Javier Milei in Mar-a-Lago symbolised the new spirit which imperils the US economy and society. The self-styled „anarcho-capitalist” Milei since his entry generated industrial decline and sharply rising poverty in Argentina. For Trump, Milei is a MAGA person. https://lnkd.in/dfud8y59 🔸Ursula von der Leyen’s rightward turn and the rise of the EPP—ECR policy axis also pushed the endeavour of simplification, or more concretely, deregulation, higher on the EU agenda as well. Rekindling the paradigm once represented by a High Level Group led by Edmund Stoiber risks prescribing the wrong medicine again. https://lnkd.in/dbXrMVhx 🔸Former liberal MEP Marietje Schaake has written a remarkable book about the myth of Silicon Valley and how technology companies use „innovation” as a disguise for resisting regulation. Today this amounts to a „tech coup” to which the Trump revolution is opening the gates wide. Schaake's book carries very important warnings for EU policy makers searching for the true meaning of innovation and the right tools to boost it.  https://lnkd.in/dkHAtH7M More observations from me here: https://lnkd.in/d5ek43Mz

🌐 Call for papers: Decrypt digital authoritarianism! 📝   Are you passionate about defending democracy and human rights in the digital age? The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute will host a conference on "Decrypting Digital Authoritarianism: How the Use of the Internet Can Threaten Democracy and Human Rights". It will take place on 28 and 29 October 2024 in Florence, Italy, and aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on digital authoritarianism.   The papers will inform the conference, and selected papers will be published!   You are invited to submit an abstract and short bio online by 29 March 2024. Selected authors will be notified by 19 April 2024, and are expected to submit draft papers (4,000-5,000 words) by 18 October 2024. The conference welcomes submissions from scholars worldwide and will cover travel expenses for the selected authors.   You can choose between two tracks: 1. Policy track = papers that focus on the uses of digital tools and policies for social control 2. Technology track = papers that focus on the operations and technology behind digital authoritarian practices   Find more information on our website: https://lnkd.in/eVk6hGMH   Do not miss this opportunity to contribute to the discussion about digital authoritarianism and its implications for democracy and human rights!   #DigitalAuthoritarianism #CallforPapers #DigitalDialogues   © Glenn Carstens-Peters / Unsplash; Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies

📢New publication alert! I am very glad to announce that the Politique européenne special issue Clément Perarnaud and I edited on "EU digital politics and policies" is finally out! 👉 https://lnkd.in/efybmJjs More details about the articles below: 💡 In our introduction to the SI, we unpack the European approach to regulate the “Digital” and propose a research agenda focusing on actors and processes of EU digital policy-making 👉 https://lnkd.in/eTvBbg4u (free access) 📖 Using an Arendtian framework, Orsolya Gulyás explores the link between ‘sovereignty’ and ‘competitiveness’ in the European Union’s digital strategy, showing the centrality of an economic perspective where values of competitiveness and free market prevail. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eF8UxjmK 🔎 Julien Rossi digs into the history of the European Data Protection Public Policy, showing how the principles of the GDPR can actually be traced back to the 1970s. Digital politics and policies don't always lag behind the techs they seek to regulate! 👉 https://lnkd.in/eFheeVvJ 🔬 Chloé BERUT analyzes the europeanisation of national eHealth policies through soft law instruments, highlighting the central role of policy entrepreneurs. She shows the strategic use of EU digital public policy instruments to promote a specific agenda. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eacKjJPU 📊 Looking at 4 of the biggest social media platforms, Trisha Meyer and Samuel Cipers show the centrality of self-regulation regarding speech regulation. They emphasize a major consequence: the fragmentation of political advertising policy. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eEasq2Cf 📋 Last but not least, Sebastian H. develops the concept of platform accountability to analyze the GDPR, DMA, and DSA as regulatory tools aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech companies. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eADeNWDS Want to talk more about EU digital policies and politics? Then join us on the 7th of March, online and on-site at the VUB, for our launching event, where we will have the pleasure of having Matti Ylönen and Marie Alauzen acting as discussants. Register here: https://lnkd.in/et6qg96a It goes without saying, but we massively thank Clément fontan, the Politique européenne team, and the anonymous reviewers for making this special issue happen!

I'm so excited to share my recent publication in the Cuban Journal on Information and Communication “Alcance” from the Facultad de Comunicación-UH Universidad de La Habana : Current challenges on the decision-making process: from the digital government to the smart public governance, ¿quo vadimus? This paper constitutes an important part of my PhD studies on Sciences of Information dedicated to the Governance of information and its contribution on the Cuban decision-making process in the foreign affairs field. I worked on this proposal along with my colleagues (and International Relations studentsat the Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales "Raúl Roa García" ) Emi Moreno & Thalía Tapia León, Thanks for your support. Now, I expose some remarks and invite you to read the full article through the link included. https://lnkd.in/dtpme9wC 📑|| Currently, governments are paying more attention to preventing changes towards new development dynamics by turning available information into useful knowledge. In order to fulfill this purpose, information analysis is one of the key tools because of: its link with several organizational processes; the exploration of new research, development and innovation fields; and the complementation of the decision-making process. Thus, in the light of the recognition of the so-called Information Society, there have been taken some steps in the implementation and improvement of information analysis systems, whose data accompanies the decision-making cycle. The set of actions undertaken in this direction is framed in the Digital Government (DG) model, a practice internationally endorsed from the multilateral and academic visions. In DG, the analysis of information received from different sources and through citizen participation, allows access to essential readings in the decision-making process and the exercise of governance, understood in its broadest spectrum. However, the rise of new technologies such as Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, the permanence of processes inherited from the Information Sciences and the academic and governmental debate generated around other emerging categories such as the smart public governance and the information governance, pose a challenge to which to respond from an interdisciplinary research approach, able of assimilating the process of information analysis and its contribution to the decision-making process and the government management.