Yesterday, I had the honor of giving a closing lecture to the ICT Regulations course at at ETSIT UPM, a specialisation course for Master’s students of Telecom Engineering. The session included an overview of recent EU Regulations on online platforms and data, framed within the EU’s Digital Decade policy programme. We answered key questions such as:
- Why these regulations?
- What are their objectives?
- Who is covered?
- What are their intended impacts?
- When are they entering or have they entered into force?
- When are they applicable?
- Who is responsible for enforcing them?
- How will they be monitored and enforced?
- What are the consequences of not complying with them?
We also addressed the heated debate on innovation vs. regulation, and the different approaches followed by the EU, the US and China. I ended up making a comparison to traditional ICT regulations and emphasising the nascent stage of digital regulations, and the long road ahead. I truly believe there is significant multidisciplinary work to be done in this field.
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Santiago Andrés Azcoitia 
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