Competition in the digital ecosystem – Europe and beyond – WS 17 2021

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30 June 2021 | 16:30-17:30 CEST | Studio Belgrade | Video record | Live transcription
Consolidated programme 2021 overview / Day 2

Proposals: #20 #83 #87 #90 #93 (#69)

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Session teaser

Since its creation the internet has claimed to be a sphere of equality and fairness for all its users. Today, however, we see how platforms and social media are establishing monopolistic positions at the expense of users and smaller companies. What does it take – technically and legally – to make the internet a free, affordable and and fair sphere for people and SMEs alike?

Session description

Content wise, this session will look at competition in the internet form 3 different angles:

  • 1st what competition is about in theory, why we all profit from competition and how equality and how competition has been at the heart of the internet at its beginnings,
  • 2nd technically, how interoperability should allow competition, how gatekeepers and social media platforms sometimes try to avoid competition and monopolize it instead,
  • 3rd legally, how to allow, establish and enforce competition in the internet: focus on upcoming EU legislation and comparison with legislative initiatives in the USA, Australia, Japan.

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  • Christoph Riedmann, EUROCHAMBRES

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  • Christoph Riedmann, EUROCHAMBRES
  • Roberto Gaetano, EURALO
  • Amali De Silva-Mitchell, Dynamic Coalition on Data Driven Health Technologies / Futurist
  • Vittorio Bertola, Open-Xchange
  • Alève Mine, Zurich AR/VR Meetup

Key Participants

  • Alève Mine, Author of “Storytelling Automation Principles”, Founder of the Zurich AR/VR Meetup, Originator of the OneGoal Initiative for Governance.
  • Vittorio Bertola, Head of Policy & Innovation, Open-Xchange
  • Christoph Riedmann, Advisor for Digital Policy at EUROCHAMBRES, the European Chambers of Commerce and Industry
  • Daniel Popovski, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Senior Advisor Economics and Industry Policy

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  • Nigel Hickson, UK Government, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) working on Digital Standards and Internet Governance

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Messages

  • The European rules on competition in the digital landscape need to be simple and efficient. Simple, clear rules will make it easy for smaller companies to understand and follow them without profound legal expertise. Efficient rules are needed to tackle monopolies ex ante, before it is late to break up the monopolies that are usually formed very fast in the digital environment.
  • There is a lack of interoperability between various online services and platforms. From the European perspective, there are ongoing initiatives pushing for more interoperability, but the coverage of such rules needs to include more services and platforms.
  • A multilayered and multistakeholder approach is needed to tackle competition issues in the digital. The regulatory frameworks should establish the general principles to be followed, and this is a long-term process. There is also room for ethics frameworks and standards to guide future policy. In addition, multistakeholder involvement can help ensure that the regulation and the established principles are not watered down because of quickly evolving realities in the market.

Find an independent report of the session from the Geneva Internet Platform Digital Watch Observatory at https://dig.watch/resources/competition-digital-ecosystem-europe-and-beyond.

Video record

https://youtu.be/rnehllszB6w?t=23402s

Transcript

Will be provided here after the event.