Tag: Digital

Reddit’s Hosting Service and the Dangers of Outlinking (Bàrbara Molas, GNET)

A key element in facilitating radicalisation processes leading to violent extremism, online hate speech has been considered among the most difficult areas to regulate...

TechInnovation-Digital-Radicalisation Processes. As You Like It: User Types in Digital Gamified Radicalisation Processes (Linda Schlegel, GNET)

Videogames, gaming-related content, game aesthetics, gaming (-adjacent) platforms, gamification, and their potential link to digital extremist content and digitally-mediated radicalisation processes, are an increasingly popular topic...

Digital/Pandemic. Cash and the city: Digital COVID-19 social response in Kinshasa (Paul Bance, Laura Bermeo, and François Kabemba, Brookings)

As COVID-19 spread across the world, governments responded with an unprecedented increase in social assistance measures. Policymakers had to shift their focus to urban areas, particularly slums,...

USA/South Korea/Japan – Washington should pursue a digital deal with Seoul and Tokyo (East Asia Forum)

Elliot Silverberg and Daniel Aum write: In June 2021, the United States and the European Union announced the creation of a joint trade and technology council,...

Asia/Digital/Post Pandemic Recovery – How big tech can help start-ups fuel Asia’s post-pandemic recovery (WEF)

Ahmed Mazhari COVID-19 has wreaked global economic damage and further exposed the digital divide. With its established digital ecosystem, Asia is well positioned to...

Digital Brief: Digital vulnerabilities, no Horizon for Europe, Trump ban (Euractiv)

Luca Bertuzzi | EURACTIV.com “The real industrial revolution is starting now – provided we make the right investments in key technologies and set the right framework conditions.” -Thierry...

(Europe/Digital) Why Europe’s Digital Decade Matters (Project-Syndicate)

MARGRETHE VESTAGER, JOSEP BORRELL Now that digitalization has become the driving force of the modern economy and even a critical factor in today's geopolitics, there is...

(Civic Spaces/Digital) Digitizing civic spaces amid the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond (Brookings)

Maya Gros and Norman Eisen As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries, regions and cities have introduced a number of extraordinary measures such as quarantines and...

(Digital) Digital was our lifeline in 2020, and we are more positive about it since (Tim Cooper, WEF)

In 2020, there was an increase in our trust of how governments handle our personal data. More people report their digital skills being...

(Europe/Digital) EU seeking strategic autonomy in digital realm (Global Times)

Outgoing US President Donald Trump's social media accounts and content have been blocked or restricted by multiple global online media and platforms, including Twitter,...

Four lessons for U.S. legislators from the EU Digital Services Act (Bruna Martins dos Santos and David Morar, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2021/01/06/four-lessons-for-u-s-legislators-from-the-eu-digital-services-act/

GLOBAL HEALTH/DIGITAL – Shift to digital during the pandemic could enable universal health coverage (David Alexander Walcott, Sofiat Akinola, WEF)

Technology enables greater levels of engagement with patients regardless of location. Image: Getty Images COVID-19 has accelerated global efforts to deliver digital healthcare. The move...