Connection Problem S09E02: An overdue Check-in
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Tag: policy
Is standardization the new frontier for civil society?
A topic that has been comic up a lot in conversation is a trend towards pushing regulation work to standards bodies. More concretely, for regulation in the context…
UN Habitat Playbook “Centering People in Smart Cities”
UN Habitat launched a new series of playbooks as part of its People Centered Smart Cities flagship program. I was happy to be a peer reviewer last year…
AI as a forcing function for societal debate
We see that the spread of AI systems is effectively a forcing function for societal debates: Underlying conflicts are forced to the foreground because these systems will have…
Web3 Is Going Great, or Is It?
web3isgoinggreat.com is a pretty funny overview of the mishaps and shenanigans of the web3 / crypto scene and products. It shows just how much is going wrong in the…
Will Europe be able to enforce the new internet regulation frameworks DMA and DSA?
Europe is revamping internet regulation as we know it, with ambitious (if, in some areas, dangerously vague) new rights acts Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act…
A limit of openness: Controlling data flows
Openness has been a founding pillar of the web: open source, open data, free culture all have been driving forces for a thriving internet. Increasingly, we’re seeing the…