Digital Trade

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.

Surveying the Damage: Why We Must Accurately Measure Cross-Border Data Flows and Digital Trade Barriers

Countries that value an open, competitive digital economy should use surveys to improve quantitative analysis of cross-border data flows, because policymakers can’t effectively manage and address barriers to digital trade unless they can measure it.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationMon, 01/27/2020

IT, E-Commerce, and Digital Policies: The Case of Poland

In recent years, Poland has benefitted from economic openness to see its digital sectors, like the gaming industry, and digitally enabled sectors, such as e‑commerce, develop and thrive. To sustain this development, it is crucial that the digital and digitally-enabled flows of goods, services, and data be strengthened even more.

Center for Social and Economic Research Mon, 01/27/2020

What the EU Should Put in the Digital Services Act

The eCommerce Directive—a critical building block of the EU’s digital economy—is in need of modernization, but updates should continue to remove obstacles to online commerce and provide legal certainty to businesses and citizens.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationMon, 01/13/2020

The Case for a Mostly Open Internet

Policymakers should seek to maximize the benefits of Internet openness while maintaining carefully designed guardrails that reduce the Internet’s most clearly harmful uses.The general openness of the Internet supports economic growth by increasing international trade, productivity, employment, and innovation.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationMon, 12/16/2019

A Roadmap for Europe to Succeed in the Digital Economy

Europe must harness the power of digital innovation not just to increase economic growth and expand prosperity, but also to address important societal challenges related to the environment, public health, transportation, and other pressing concerns.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationMon, 12/02/2019

Liberalizing Satellite Communications in India: Opportunities for Enhanced Economic Growth

India’s growing capacity of satellite communication can be harnessed to meet the country’s communications demand in the future. However, it lacks a comprehensive policy that addresses the need for a dynamic commercial satellite communication system which can be achieved using satellite technology.

ICRIERFri, 11/15/2019

The New Europe in the Global Digital Era

The Internet and digital technologies are transforming our world. The European Commission has identified that an efficiently functioning Digital Single Market could contribute €415 bln per year to our economy and create hundreds of thousands of new jobs Starting from an analysis on the Junker Commission’s Digital Singe Market Strategy, the I-Com Study assesses of the steps undertaken by the EU during the last institutional cycle, particularly focusing on the following issues: Digital Networks and 5G, Data-driven Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Consumers and Cybersecurity.

I-Com Fri, 11/01/2019

Economic Implications of Cross-Border Data Flows

While the rapid increase in data flows has contributed to growth and socio-economic transformations, it has also amplified policy questions related to anti-trust conduct, inequality, privacy, data security and surveillance. This report builds on the recent literature on data localisation to provide a reflective view on the economic implications of the existing and proposed localisation measures in India.

ICRIERFri, 11/01/2019

The Public-Data Opportunity - Why Governments Should Share More

Today, data is produced at an unprecedented scale and speed. It is copied and transferred at zero cost in real time and has become a basic tool used in every government department. Yet government agencies remain reluctant to share the data they hold with other agencies. This paper looks at why data sharing is important, how it can be achieved, the opportunities of big data for the public sector, the main barriers to adoption, and policy conclusions for further work.

The Lisbon Council Fri, 10/18/2019

The Case for a U.S. Digital Single Market and Why Federal Preemption Is Key

A national framework for digital economy rules would ensure the same protections for all U.S. residents, minimize transaction costs for businesses, enable opportunities to innovate, and increase efficiency in the policy making process.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationMon, 10/07/2019

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