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Antitrust policy regulators are concerned that too much power is being centralized among an elite few platform companies in Silicon Valley, and finding that many of their traditional levers are not suited to governing this new model of business.

CIGI’s essay series about the four domains of global platform governance continues, with a focus this week on competition. Read the essays by Elettra Bietti, Grace Mutung’u and Angela Huyue Zhang, and watch the video featuring Mutung’u.

As more central banks are considering retail central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), Canada needs to ensure it doesn’t fall behind. In this op-ed also published in the Toronto Star, Robert Fay and David Dodge write that to reap the potential of a CBDC for consumers and businesses, Canada should focus first on the CBDC’s purpose, design and governance, involve multi-stakeholders, and consult and collaborate with provinces and territories in a whole-of-government approach.

Pretty much everyone working on tech policy, no matter their political or ideological stripe, can agree about transparency: namely, that we need more of it. But that agreement hides a deeper debate. Although transparency may be the first step toward sound regulation, there are countless ways to use and abuse it. As Blayne Haggart explains, the real fight, as always, is over who will be allowed to set the rules, and what the rules will be.

Digital technology has opened up new vulnerabilities for democratic life, social harmony and notions of the common good. And, because most technical and scientific knowledge is male-centric, women and girls experience these digital threats in distinct ways. What can be done to prevent and combat tech-facilitated gender-based violence, without jeopardizing democratic values? In this first of two articles, Ronald Crelinsten looks at different legal and regulatory approaches to these threats.