Policy & Regulation
Digital policy, data sovereignty, tech regulation and government digitalization in Algeria and the region.
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Space Tech Regulation: How Satellite Internet, Debris
The New Space Race Is a Regulatory Vacuum SpaceX's Starlink constellation has grown to approximately 9,800 satellites in orbit as of early 2026, with roughly 7,000 operational, serving over 10 million customers across more than 110 countries and territories. In January 2026,
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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 connectivity — assumed a single, interoperable global network. For approximately two decades, that assumption held.
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The Gig Economy Reckoning: How Global Labor Classification Laws Are Reshaping Platform
Hundreds of Millions of Workers, One Unresolved Question The scale of global platform work defies easy measurement. Survey-based methods estimate at least 154 million online gig workers worldwide, while broader World Bank models that capture occasional platform users put the
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The Environmental Regulation of Big Tech: Carbon Reporting, Scope 3 Emissions
The Inconvenient Numbers The tech industry has cultivated a green image — paperless offices, video calls replacing flights, efficient cloud computing replacing energy-hungry on-premises servers. The reality is more complicated, and getting worse.
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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 or privacy advocates. They are being written by trade negotiators, embedded in agreements that most people never read, and they will determine
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The Taxation of Digital Giants: Digital Services Taxes, OECD Pillar One
The Problem: Where Value Is Created vs. Where Profits Are Booked The international corporate tax system was designed in the 1920s for an economy of factories, mines, and shipping routes.
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Civic Tech and Open Government: How Technology Is Transforming Citizen Participation in
The Promise of Technology-Enabled Democracy Civic technology -- tools and platforms that enable citizens to participate in governance, access public information, and hold institutions accountable -- has emerged as one of the most consequential applications of digital
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The Regulation of Autonomous Weapons: Lethal AI, UN Negotiations
The Technology: What Autonomous Weapons Can Already Do Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) are weapons that can select and engage targets without direct human intervention. The technology exists along a spectrum of autonomy.
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Algorithmic Transparency: The Growing Demand to Open the Black Box of AI Decision-Making
When Algorithms Decide Your Fate Algorithms now make or significantly influence decisions that profoundly affect human lives. Credit scoring models determine who gets loans and at what interest rates -- FICO scores can be generated for more than 232 million U.S.
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AI Copyright: Who Owns Training Data? The Lawsuits That Will Define the Future
The Billion-Dollar Question Behind Every AI Model Every large language model and image generator in commercial operation today was trained on data created by humans: articles, books, photographs, artwork, code, music, and video. The companies that built these models, OpenAI,
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Right to Repair: The Movement Goes Digital in 2026
You Bought It, But Do You Own It? In June 2012, Kyle Wiens — co-founder of iFixit — cracked open a new MacBook Pro with Retina Display and discovered the RAM was soldered to the motherboard, the battery was glued in, and the storage was proprietary.
