Public Policy Blog

On next Thursday 10th of May the Internet Governance Forum Spain will meet in Madrid for its 2nd Annual Conference.

“Government should lead by example instead of dictating European models of regulation that could stall US-based growth and innovation in our thriving tech sector.” This quote, from Congressman Marsha Blackburn’s response to the recent release of the White House Privacy Report, is a good example of the concerns generated among some stakeholders in the US [...]

Many people consider that disclosure of personal data is increasingly a part of modern life. In Europe, 74% of Europeans see disclosing personal information as necessary to access online services, specifically social networking and sharing sites (61%) and online shopping (79%). However, 72% of internet users in Europe still worry that they are being asked [...]

Many are the predictions those days in the Net concerning our sector and its perspectives for 2012, from how the telecom sector will evolve, to which services and technological trends will be the winners for next year, or how social networks will be positioned, what will be the IT “super themes” for 2012, etc…
This is a difficult and somersault exercise in a very dynamic and evolving sector such as the ICT & Telecom one. However, it is sure that some trends could be already detected.

Concerning the ICT public policy area, we could see the following issues as relevant as they are present in several international and public institutions agendas for 2012. Here are some of them:

As you all know, we attended the OECD High Level meeting on the Internet economy, where so many distinguished speakers contributed to the event. There were Ministers, officials, policy makers, industry leaders and Internet evangelists but also civil society and technical communities. Around 400 people attended the meeting, focused on 5 main topics such as broadband access, the role of broadband and innovation in the social and economic growth, balancing policy goals to strengthen growth and finally policy-making principles for an open Internet.

As part of its digital responsability, Telefónica tries to foster the debate and ideas towards a better and safer use of new technologies. That´s why Telefónica Czech Republic decided to be partner of the conference “Prevention of Internet crimes against Children: Technology, Legislation and Education” in the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic on 7th June.

“I am confused” – these were the honest words of a young participant at the European Dialog on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) conference which took place last week in Belgrade (see our previous post). I participated together with other business representatives from Cisco and Google in a workshop with representatives from the New Media Summer School [...]

Today marks the beginning on 2-days discussions and debates and exchange on public policy issues related to Internet Governance (IG) between stakeholders from all over Europe!

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.

“Cloud computing, cloud computing, cloud computing …” the two magic words that have had Brussels buzzing over the past few months. We have witnessed policy makers’ madness on the issue as a new world was being discovered. Sorry, but cloud computing isn’t new… For many years we’ve been using many cloud-based services such as webmail, [...]