Policy & Regulation
Digital policy, data sovereignty, tech regulation and government digitalization in Algeria and the region.
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Age Verification Online: The Global Push to Prove You’re Old Enough for the Internet
The World Decided Children Should Not Have Unrestricted Internet Access The political consensus arrived with remarkable speed. Between 2023 and...
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Digital Accessibility Laws: How WCAG Mandates and the EU Accessibility Act Are Reshaping the Web
The Regulatory Turning Point Digital accessibility has crossed a threshold from voluntary best practice to legal obligation in major markets...
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Space Tech Regulation: How Satellite Internet, Debris, and Launch Licensing Are Creating New Policy Challenges
The New Space Race Is a Regulatory Vacuum SpaceX’s Starlink constellation has grown to approximately 9,800 satellites in orbit as...
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Net Neutrality and the Splinternet: Is the Open Internet Fragmenting Beyond Repair?
The Internet Was Never Supposed to Have Borders The foundational design of the internet — packet switching, open protocols, end-to-end...
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The Gig Economy Reckoning: How Global Labor Classification Laws Are Reshaping Platform Work
Hundreds of Millions of Workers, One Unresolved Question The scale of global platform work defies easy measurement. Survey-based methods estimate...
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The Environmental Regulation of Big Tech: Carbon Reporting, Scope 3 Emissions, and the Cloud’s Climate Footprint
The Inconvenient Numbers The tech industry has cultivated a green image — paperless offices, video calls replacing flights, efficient cloud...
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Digital Trade Agreements: The Invisible Rules Shaping How Data and Services Cross Borders
The Quiet Architecture of the Digital Economy The rules governing how data crosses borders are not being written by technologists...
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The Taxation of Digital Giants: Digital Services Taxes, OECD Pillar One, and the $200 Billion Question
The Problem: Where Value Is Created vs. Where Profits Are Booked The international corporate tax system was designed in the...
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Digital Accessibility Laws: How WCAG Mandates and the EU Accessibility Act Are Reshaping the Web
The Regulatory Turning Point Digital accessibility has crossed a threshold from voluntary best practice to legal obligation in major markets...
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Civic Tech and Open Government: How Technology Is Transforming Citizen Participation in Democracy
The Promise of Technology-Enabled Democracy Civic technology — tools and platforms that enable citizens to participate in governance, access public...
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The Regulation of Autonomous Weapons: Lethal AI, UN Negotiations, and the Military Ethics Dilemma
The Technology: What Autonomous Weapons Can Already Do Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) are weapons that can select and engage...
