Policy & Governance

British government wants to boost innovation but lawyers warn of risk to adequacy ruling

The Department of Justice said the CLOUD Act partnership will give investigators in both countries quicker access to data held by service providers.

It’s four years since the Local Digital Declaration was published and Lawrence Hopper says this makes it a moment to celebrate the achievements that have followed.

The Commission on Tuesday (5 June) released its new European Innovation Agenda, setting out five core channels through which it will seek to boost deep tech investment and innovation within the EU. The five areas include talent attraction, policymaking and bridging the scale-up gap and aim to foster a more comprehensive supportive landscape for startups in Europe. 

Bank and financial institutes should consider digital business identification (DBID) as equivalent to trade licence for issuing loans to e-commerce companies, urged the industry stakeholders.

Everything you need to know about the current state of broadband funding and the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program.

Priorities include cybersecurity, IT modernization, digital customer experience and data.

Topics included a federal open source program office and the role OSS plays in U.S. digital infrastructure.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced a £500,000 investment in a new Data for London platform.

The City of Eugene was surprised at the reach of their name-the-street contest held on their digital engagement platform: they received 1,092 ideas from the community.

The ICO’s IT budget has been slashed by around 23% since 2019

he UIDAI on Wednesday held a Workshop on ‘Recent Initiatives for Simplifying Aadhaar usage’. The workshop focused on sharing key developments and practices in Aadhaar Usage adopted by various departments of the State Governments and Union Territories (UTs)