The digital economy is increasingly a part of our world, presenting new challenges for regulators and policy-makers.
This book explores, in-depth, the key policy considerations for the digital economy and offers recommendations on potential solutions for policy makers and regulators to help develop a balanced, efficient, and coordinated approach in regulating a complex environment.
Beginning with an introduction to the Internet Value Chain (IVC) and its economic impacts, the author provides structure and characterisation of the positive and negative externalities, the latter in terms of their risks and harms, considering how these need to be controlled or regulated.
The regulatory principles and best practices we need to consider in the digital economy are defined using a combination of the current offline telecoms, media & technology challenges and new Big Tech risks and harms, along with the numerous online issues arising from the IVC.
The supplementary section of this volume identifies many thematic challenging areas of the digital economy problem statement, defines them more granularly and make some brief recommendations on what, where and how digital economy policy-makers can start addressing them.
This book will be of interest to anyone with an interest in internet regulation or digital economy policy. In addition, it will be helpful for those involved in designing policies, regulations, research programmes or strategies related to these subjects.
The challenging new Digital Economy areas covered in depth:Offline TMT/ICTDigital Economy PlatformsFuture of Content, Broadcasting and Media RegulationOnline Content HarmsBig Tech RegulationCybercrimeCybersecurityAI and Big DataPrivacyData ProtectionElectronic CommerceOver-The-Top (OTT) RegulationDigital Economy Capacity BuildingThis book will be of interest to anyone with an interest in internet regulation or digital economy policy. In addition, it will be helpful for those involved in designing policies, regulations, research programmes or strategies related to these subjects.