The impact of the Internet is growing in breadth and depth, fostering innovative new companies, transforming traditional industries, reshaping government interactions, and increasing opportunities for social inclusion. The growth of the Internet has been enabled by the economics of the Internet; services are often free, usage at work, home, and public hotspots is often not metered, and the standards are open for anyone to develop new services, applications, and devices. These characteristics, in turn, fuel the growth of large platforms that have generated concerns recently about privacy and data protection, content availability, and market power that are leading new calls for governance. The workshop will introduce the economics of the Internet, the resulting issues behind the recent ‘techlash’, and evaluate policies that are being discussed to address the concerns.
GENEVA GRADUATE INSTITUTE
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CH - 1211 Geneva 1, Switzerland
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ADMISSIONS
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MEDIA ENQUIRIES
sophie.fleury@graduateinstitute.ch
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ALUMNI
carine.leu@graduateinstitute.ch
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