by Mónika Mercz Our society hinges on continuous progress, evidenced by the fact that in the last few decades, innovation has sped up to an unprecedented degree. This technological boom has brought with itself the spread of digitalization, and ultimately, the…
UN Global Digital Compact Fourth Revision
by István Kopácsi Following the adoption of the political declaration during the United Nations’ 75th anniversary in September 2020, the Secretary-General released his report, Our Common Agenda, in September 2021, proposing a Global Digital Compact (GDC) to be agreed upon at the Summit…
Joint Statement Initiative on Electronic Commerce: a new era in global digital trade
by Fanni Fürjes At the 11th Ministerial Conference in December 2017, a group of 71 World Trade Organization (WTO) members agreed to initiate exploratory work towards future WTO negotiations on trade-related aspects of e-commerce. After almost seven years of negotiations on…
Digitalising Europe: Telcos against Big Tech
by István Kopácsi In its Digital Decade programme, the European Union has set ambitious goals to ensure the digital transformation of the economy and society, using the potential of these technologies – such as AI, 5G and even 6G, blockchain, cloud…