Public Policy Blog

Do you know what Wayra means? It means “wind” in Quechua and it is a recently new and innovative initiative launched by Telefónica. Gonzalo Martín-Villa, Global Head of Wayra, explains to us the main drivers of this amazing project.

Today, there are 2 relevant events taking place in Paris and touching interesting Public Policy issues.

The first one is the well-known eG8 Forum, a key event previous to the G8 meeting of the world´s richest 8 countries, leaded by the Presidency of this year, France. The G8 heads of states will meet in Deauville the next 26-27 May.

Last year, the European Commission launched a plan, the Europe 2020 Strategy, to go out of the crisis and prepare EU economy for the coming decade. Concretely, the Union set five ambitious objectives – on employment, innovation, education, social inclusion and climate/energy – to be reached by 2020. In order to meet the targets, the [...]

Frederick de Backer, Manager of Regulatory Affairs at the Permanent Representation Office of Telefónica in Brussels, tells us about innovation in different regions of the world and how they could serve as models of innovation for Europe.