User created content (UCC) has often been celebrated as a grassroots cultural revolution that as a genuine expression of creativity, localism and non-commercialism can arguably also cater for a sustainable culturally diverse environment. The present article puts these claims under scrutiny and...

The chapter offers an insight into the highly fluid field of digital trade rule-making as a direct reaction to digital transformations. Against the backdrop of the evolution of the trade policy discourse beyond online trade in goods and services and the emergence of new digital protectionism,...

"7.60bData has been conceptualized as the 'new oil' and although this is a flawed statement, it catches well the high value attached to data as a driver of economic growth and innovation, and as a force of change in all facets of societal life. The implications of data and data analytics are...

The article provides a concise overview of the rules applicable to postal communications at the international level. Particular attention is paid to the regulations of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), as...

New technologies, in particular those stemming from digitisation, allow amongst other things the production of perfect copies, instantaneous and ubiquitous distribution of and easy access to information with no real location restrictions. The effects of these technological advances have largely...

The common mantra in telecommunications regulatory fora (be it national, regional or international) now goes along the lines of 'deregulation-good; regulation-bad' and competition is said to be the ultimate answer to basically every question. A generalised dictum like this is in itself suspicious...

The multi-faceted character of the digital challenge combined with the inherent fluidity of digital technologies render the regulatory design that can adequately accommodate them complex and hard to elaborate. In this article, we address one particular aspect of the digital trade discourse and...

This brief contribution looks at the challenges that the World Trade Organization (WTO) faces in times of sweeping digitization and the reality of data-driven economy. It examines paths of possible reform and legal adjustments.The entire essay series is available at: https://www.cigionline.org/wto

This is book review of the excellent and timely volume: Governing Science and Technology under the International Economic Order Regulatory Divergence and Convergence in the Age of Megaregionals, edited by Shin-yi Peng, Han-Wei Liu and Ching-Fu Lin and published in 2018 with Edward Elgar. The...