The digital economy accounts for 25 percent of global GDP today and as much as 50 percent of value creation going forward. To maximize the digital economy’s potential, policymakers must adopt effective rules and norms to facilitate trade in digital goods and enable the free flow of data, as GTIPA-member reports in this category explore.
Canada should provide additional supports for businesses facing the costs of digitizing operations due to the pandemic, says a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.
The report from the Crisis Working Group on Business Continuity and Trade also emphasized a need to reduce barriers to interprovincial trade and mobility, accelerate private sector capital spending, and clarify confusion around Canada’s foreign investment regime.
The SAFE program presented the guidelines for the implementation of policies and good business practices for strengthening cybersecurity in organizational processes. This document outlines the main policies a company should have to protect information, more so considering that since the arrival of the pandemic in Colombia, 57% of companies operate under the modality of remote work, according to the firm PageGroup, indicating that the information may be more exposed giving greater opportunity to act to cybercriminals.
Once the domain of teenage dancers, pranksters, and aspiring influencers, TikTok has become a lightning rod in disputes among global powers. The Chinese video app is in the crosshairs of policymakers whose options to move against Beijing are limited.
Vulnerability to cyberattacks for fraudulent purposes is increasingly common in the commercial system, which in turn seeks to protect itself more and more so that neither they nor their customers are affected.
Law enforcement argues that “warrant-proof” encryption presents a unique and urgent threat by preventing them from accessing user data. But history shows that government efforts to subvert encryption would negatively impact individuals and businesses. As such, banning the technology is not the answer.
TicTac makes a general description of the Colombian higher education system and the challenges of the labor demand for professionals in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector.
As the European Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen pushes deeper into its five-year work programme, the Lisbon Council convened the High-Level Roundtable on Public Data-Analytics: Delivering Essential Services in Troubling Times. The reports form part of the Data Analytics for Member States and Citizens, a forthcoming study that analyses cutting-edge applications of public data-analytics in Europe and beyond and looks into how to scale up data driven public services across Europe. The studies presented at the roundtable are available on the European Commission’s Join Up platform, where leading thinkers, stakeholders and informed citizens can read the latest research and contribute new ideas to the European data strategy and the emerging Data Analytics for Member States and Citizens study. Visit the new site at https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/study-data-analytics-member-state....
As the debate regarding Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act highlig
In June 2020, the United States Trade Representative’s office initiated a Section 301 investigation into digital services taxes (DSTs) that have been adopted or are being considered by a number of foreign governments. This article offers a brief analysis of the benefits and drawbacks of DSTs.
In this document we summarize some of our member companies’ projects related to how digitization can help the environment, classifying them into three categories according to the scope of their application.