The UK can build a data-secure digital future
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by Roch Dunin-Wasowicz
3y ago
Citizens’ rights over their personal data have become a focal point of the ongoing WTO e-commerce negotiations. What is the role of privacy in the digital economy, ask Serena Cesareo and Stella Canessa? They argue that the UK has the potential to lead a data-secure digital future. 60 per cent of the world population is connected to the internet right now and while digital users still cluster in North America and Europe, big tech is looking to change that. Google, Facebook, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX all run projects to expand internet access in underserved regions. These platf ..read more
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The global digital divide is reminiscent of colonialism
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by Roch Dunin-Wasowicz
3y ago
Colonialism in the digital era does not require armies, weapons and ships, argues Dhwani Goel (LSE). All you need is a tech giant that has captured the digital markets of the Global South, a government willing to push for the global liberalization of e-commerce, and an international organization that prioritizes corporate interests in rule-making. If data is the new oil, then developing countries and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are the new oil fields. These countries are witnessing rapid growth in the digital sector driven by increasing access to technology among their large populations ..read more
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The UK can build a data-secure digital future
LSE - Brexit
by Roch Dunin-Wasowicz
3y ago
Citizens’ rights over their personal data have become a focal point of the ongoing WTO e-commerce negotiations. What is the role of privacy in the digital economy, ask Serena Cesareo and Stella Canessa? They argue that the UK has the potential to lead a data-secure digital future. 60 per cent of the world population is connected to the internet right now and while digital users still cluster in North America and Europe, big tech is looking to change that. Google, Facebook, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX all run projects to expand internet access in underserved regions. These platf ..read more
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Brexit is a political Ponzi scheme
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by Roch Dunin-Wasowicz
3y ago
It is increasingly clear that Brexit has cost not saved money, encumbered not liberated trade, inhibited not enhanced our sovereignty, and threatens to break up the UK. In fact, argues Nick Westcott, it is nothing more than a political Ponzi scheme – and it is still going on. Bernie Madoff died last month. The obituaries, and there were many, reflected on his extraordinary ability to persuade people to join a pure Ponzi scheme, worth $64.8 billion when it collapsed.  But he simply exploited human nature: that people are happy to believe a lie, without asking too many questions, if it pro ..read more
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Is the grass greener on the other side? Norway’s assessment of Brexit
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by Roch Dunin-Wasowicz
3y ago
Is the grass greener on the other side, ask John Erik Fossum and Joachim Vigrestad (University of Oslo)? In this blog, the present the Norwegians’ assessments of Brexit and are that it may expose the special arrangements that EFTA states have to the EU. The European Union has over time developed quite a comprehensive system of affiliations with neighbouring states. Both actors in the UK and in the EU have discussed these affiliations as possible templates for how the UK and the EU could organize their relations post-Brexit. At the same time, it is important to keep in mind that the ..read more
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The global digital divide is reminiscent of colonialism
LSE - Brexit
by Roch Dunin-Wasowicz
3y ago
Colonialism in the digital era does not require armies, weapons and ships, argues Dhwani Goel (LSE). All you need is a tech giant that has captured the digital markets of the Global South, a government willing to push for the global liberalization of e-commerce, and an international organization that prioritizes corporate interests in rule-making. If data is the new oil, then developing countries and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are the new oil fields. These countries are witnessing rapid growth in the digital sector driven by increasing access to technology among their large populations ..read more
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Conference on the Future of Europe: civil society should take the lead
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by Roch Dunin-Wasowicz
3y ago
The upcoming Conference on the Future of Europe offers a unique opportunity for EU citizens to express their views on the direction of travel for the Union, particularly through the intermediary of civil society. A recently published LSE IDEAS report, ‘The Rise of Insurgent Europeanism’, discusses new visions of Europe emerging in civil society and what they mean for democracy and the European Union. In the report, Roch Dunin-Wąsowicz, Luke Cooper and Niccolò Milanese argue that the Eurozone and migration crises, Brexit and the pandemic have fundamentally changed the fabric of civil society i ..read more
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Can Global Britain be achieved through WTO negotiations?
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by Roch Dunin-Wasowicz
3y ago
The multilateral e-commerce negotiations presently being conducted within the World Trade Organization signify a new era within the global trading regime. In an attempt to repair the dysfunctional and log-jammed WTO through a modernized update on digital trading rules and regulations, the organisation now stands at a critical crossroads in the determination of multilateral economic exchange via electronic means. Can Global Britain be achieved through these negotiations, asks Robert Bailey (LSE)? Digital trade represents a vital and continually expanding segment of the British economy. In ..read more
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Global Britain should look towards supporting the development of Africa’s digital landscape
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by Roch Dunin-Wasowicz
3y ago
Global Britain should look towards supporting the development of Africa’s digital landscape, argue Pauline Girma and Oona Palmer (LSE). In this post, they explain that given that seven of the ten fastest-growing internet populations are located in Africa, and that it is home to what is the youngest population in the world, the future growth of the global e-commerce market depends upon unlocking the continent’s potential. The British Prime Minister has invited President Ramaphosa of South Africa to join the G7 summit in Cornwall, England in early June. The summit will discuss among other ..read more
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Global Britain should look to Africa for significant opportunities to expand e-commerce
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by Roch Dunin-Wasowicz
3y ago
Global Britain should look to Africa for significant opportunities to expand e-commerce, argue Pauline Girma and Oona Palmer (LSE). In this post, they explain that given that seven of the ten fastest-growing internet populations are located in Africa, and that it is home to what is the youngest population in the world, the future growth of the global e-commerce market depends upon unlocking the continent’s potential. The British Prime Minister has invited President Ramaphosa of South Africa to join the G7 summit in Cornwall, England in early June. The summit will discuss among other thin ..read more
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