Digital platforms have shared data, taken responsibility for content and moved quickly to work with trusted sources of information. As Heidi Tworek writes, this should be the norm after the pandemic too.
As long as COVID-19 is a global concern, many aspects of daily life will be mediated by platform companies that see human interactions as content to be moderated, and as sources of data to be monetized. Jennifer Cobbe and Elettra Bietti explain.
It might be too late to mitigate the governance issues that will certainly come from TikTok’s dizzying growth, but as Jesse Hirsh writes, for whatever comes next, regulators can do better.
Following a conversation with Douglas Rushkoff, Taylor Owen considers how humans — and our best interests — can be kept at the core of our digital infrastructure, and the reform that it needs.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is experiencing a crisis of legitimacy — trade wars rage on and the Appellate Body is unable to function. In this essay series, authors examine where the WTO is falling short, consider the opportunities that lie ahead and discuss options for a modernized WTO.
May 28 – 7:00 p.m. EDT (UTC–04:00): In a virtual edition of our community event series, Robert Fay and Dan Ciuriak will lead a discussion on data in the age of COVID-19 and how the pandemic has expedited the digital transformation. The event will close with a question period and will be hosted as a Zoom video conference.
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