Publications

[ENG] This report summarizes the key results of the 2. Workshop on Digital Service Public held with 20 stakeholders from public administration, politics, industry, interest groups, civil society and academia. [DEU] Dieser Bericht fasst die wichtigsten Ergebnisse des 2. Workshops zum Thema "Digital Service Public" zusammen, der mit 20 Akteuren…

[ENG] As part of our work on the digital public service in Switzerland, we have written an initial working paper in which we focused in particular on the question of the future of the traditional service public in the context of progressive platformization. [DEU] Im Rahmen unserer Arbeit zum digitalen…

Are the recently adopted (or still negotiated) international rules regulating the development, (crossborder) sales, marketing, and use of software in the best interest of technologists and the tech industry? In this issue brief, C4DT Digital Trust Policy Fellow Leonila Guglya critically examines international digital product regulations that are of key…

Jamie Susskind’s book, "The Digital Republic" addresses the issue of the unaccountable, hence undemocratic, power exerted by Big Tech. A lawyer and former research fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Susskind problematizes the fundamental challenges that the engineers who design and control digital technology pose to democratic…

This book brings a unique perspective to digitalization studies by providing and excellent analysis of how digital platforms, in general, and the main infrastructural platforms, in particular (i.e., the "Big Five" that are Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft), have become so powerful and so pervasive that they have by…

Digitalization is such a multifaceted and such a pervasive phenomenon that only a cross-disciplinary approach and culturally diverse perspectives will ultimately help us understand its essence. This recent book by Pradip Ninan Thomas approaches the phenomenon of digital platforms, digitalization, and Big Tech more generally from a non-Western, cultural perspective,…